Overview

• Federal civil-rights officials concluded Denver Public Schools broke Title IX by converting sex-separated multi-stall bathrooms to all-gender facilities and by allowing access based on gender identity.
• Proposed remedies require redesignating multi-stall bathrooms by sex, rescinding gender-identity access policies, adopting biology-based definitions of male and female, and issuing districtwide guidance on comparable facilities.
• OCR launched the case after East High School converted a girls’ restroom to all-gender; the later addition of a second all-gender restroom on the same floor was deemed insufficient to cure the violation.
• Complaints cited by investigators included reports from a female student describing discomfort and taunting in the shared facility, which officials said implicated privacy, dignity, and safety.
• Denver Public Schools said it has received the findings and is determining next steps, as the action aligns with broader Trump administration enforcement efforts that have led other districts to face reimbursement-only federal funding.