Overview

• The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights has opened investigations into Illinois schools following allegations of Title IX violations involving transgender student policies.
• In Wisconsin, parents have filed a Title IX complaint claiming their daughters faced academic penalties for avoiding a transgender student in the girls' locker room.
• The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty alleges that Westosha Central High School failed to address privacy concerns raised by female students and their parents.
• An Illinois mother has also filed a civil rights complaint, claiming her daughter was forced to change in front of a transgender student at a middle school in Deerfield Public Schools District 109.
• Both school districts maintain that their policies align with state laws and emphasize that students have options for privacy in locker rooms.