VICTORY — In Response to America First Legal’s Complaint, the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights Opens Investigation into Five Northern Virginia K-12 Schools Illegal “Gender Identity” Policies

Washington, D.C. — February 14, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On February 3, 2025, America First Legal (AFL) submitted an administrative complaint to the U.S. Department of Education alleging that the “gender identity” policies of five northern Virginia public school systems — Alexandria City, Arlington County, Fairfax County, Loudoun County, and Prince William County — violate Title IX of the Higher Education Act of 1972 and President Trump’s Executive Order 14190, “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schools. This week, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) notified AFL that it has opened an enforcement investigation in response to this complaint.

AFL will continue holding leftist school boards, public school bureaucrats, and teacher unions accountable for promoting radical gender ideology in violation of our civil rights laws.

Statement from Reed D. Rubinstein, America First Legal Senior Vice President:

“Executive Order 14190 reaffirms the fact that our civil rights laws prohibit Federal taxpayer funds may not directly or indirectly support or subsidize Title IX violations, including the instruction, advancement, or promotion of gender ideology. The leftists who run northern Virginia’s schools act as if they are above the law, with the power to indoctrinate children to view their parents and their biological reality as enemies to be blamed in violation of Title IX and lawful Presidential Orders. However, Federal civil rights laws apply even in northern Virginia, and it seems a reckoning is coming,” said Reed D. Rubinstein.

Read the OCR letter here.

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We are grateful that President Trump and the Department of Education are so committed to taking action and investigating these radical and lawless school districts that would rather deny biology than teach it. Each of these school districts has spent years bowing to the altar of transgender ideology while ignoring the law, common sense, and the concerns of its students and their parents. A male student in these school districts can wake up, claim to be ‘gender expansive or transgender,’ and then have a pass to use female locker rooms and restrooms. If the female students are uncomfortable sharing those locker rooms and restrooms with that male student, it is the female students who must make alternative arrangements. That is sex discrimination. If these school districts had any common sense, they’d end their trip to fantasyland and return to earth. If they don’t, they should absolutely lose their federal funding.

Ian Prior Senior Counselor

VICTORY — In Response to America First Legal’s Complaint, the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights Opens Investigation into Five Northern Virginia K-12 Schools Illegal “Gender Identity” Policies

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