Overview
- The Justice Department alleges Loudoun County applied Policy 8040 in a way that violates the Equal Protection Clause and burdens two Christian students’ religious exercise.
- According to the suit, a biologically female student entered the boys’ locker room at Stone Bridge High School and recorded, and two boys who complained were suspended for 10 days and ordered into a “Comprehensive Student Support Plan.”
- The department has moved to intervene in S. W. et al. v. Loudoun County School Board, with its motion pending in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
- The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights found in September that the district discriminated against male students on the basis of sex in handling related complaints.
- The school board voted in August to retain its gender-identity policy despite a July federal directive to change it, and the district has declined comment on the new suit while disputing the students’ account in prior court filings.