In August, Loudoun County Public Schools, in Virginia, suspended two high school boys for allegedly discriminating against a transgender-identifying female classmate. The students involved attend Stone Bridge High School. The girl reported the male students after she recorded them in the boys’ locker room discussing the presence of a girl in their space. The district responded by charging the boys with a Title IX violation and issuing the suspension.
According to a new response filed by LCPS, the district’s first extensive statement defending its decision, the female student accused the boys of “harassing him for using the boys’ locker room and referring to Complainant as ‘it’ and ‘girl-boy.’” (In its filing, LCPS refers to the transgender-identifying female student exclusively with male pronouns.)
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