Overview

• Investigators said Denver Public Schools discriminated based on sex by converting a girls' multi-stall restroom at East High into an all-gender facility and by allowing bathroom access by gender identity.
• The Office for Civil Rights proposed a resolution requiring multi-stall all-gender restrooms to be returned to single-sex use, biology-based definitions of male and female, and rescission of gender-identity access policies.
• The district has 10 days to accept the proposed changes or face unspecified enforcement, which could include referral to the Justice Department or funding consequences.
• OCR said the addition of a second all-gender restroom at East High did not cure the violation because female-only spaces remained open to entry by males.
• DPS said it had just received the findings and is determining next steps, noting the restroom changes were student-led with tall privacy partitions and that gender-specific and single-stall all-gender options remained available.