Overview

• OCR 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 intimate spaces based on gender identity rather than biological sex.
• The proposed agreement would require DPS to revert multi-stall all-gender restrooms to sex-designated facilities, rescind gender-identity access guidance, adopt biology-based definitions of sex, and issue districtwide compliance guidance.
• The district was told to agree within 10 days or face enforcement, with recent cases indicating potential funding consequences through tightened reimbursement mechanisms.
• DPS said it is reviewing the findings and next steps, while Superintendent Alex Marrero criticized the action as part of an anti-trans agenda and argued there is no binding authority banning multi-stall all-gender restrooms.
• The investigation began in January after the girls’ restroom conversion; the district later added a second all-gender restroom on the same floor, and OCR cited student and parent complaints about privacy and safety.