Overview

• Defense of Freedom Institute filed a Title IX complaint with the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights on behalf of a West Springfield High School freshman and her mother, alleging a male-identifying student entered the girls’ locker room and watched students change.
• The complaint claims school staff first suggested the girl use a unisex bathroom and later shortened freshman girls’ changing time so the student in question could use the locker room afterward.
• Fairfax County Public Schools said staff are addressing concerns with the families involved and declined further comment, citing student confidentiality and its belief that district policies comply with the law.
• The Education Department has begun denying some reimbursement requests and says the district will lose $3.4 million in Magnet School Assistance Program funding in the new fiscal year over its gender-identity facility policy.
• The mother spoke publicly about her daughter feeling unsafe, as federal civil-rights review and related legal and political battles over Northern Virginia districts’ policies continue.