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Education Department Finds Denver Schools Violated Title IX Over All-Gender Restrooms

The department set a 10-day deadline for Denver to accept a resolution requiring biology-based policies.

FILE - A bicycle stands in the rack outside East High School, April 17, 2019, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
FILE — Denver East High School in Denver on April 17, 2019. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Secretary of Education Linda McMahon during an executive order signing ceremony in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on July 31, 2025, in Washington, DC.
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Overview

  • Federal civil rights officials concluded Denver Public Schools violated Title IX by converting a girls’ multi-stall restroom at East High into an all-gender facility and by allowing access to bathrooms based on gender identity.
  • A proposed Resolution Agreement orders the district to redesignate multi-stall restrooms by sex, rescind gender-identity restroom guidance, adopt biology-based definitions of male and female, and issue a compliance memo to all schools.
  • OCR gave the district 10 days to agree or face enforcement, with recent cases showing funding can be restricted; DPS received roughly $96 million in federal grants in 2024–25.
  • Investigators said complaints from students and parents cited privacy and safety concerns, and they determined the later conversion of a boys’ restroom to all-gender did not cure the violation.
  • Denver Public Schools said it has received the findings and is determining next steps, as the action aligns with a broader Trump administration campaign scrutinizing transgender accommodations in schools.