Overview

• Loudoun County Public Schools opened a Title IX investigation into three male students who expressed discomfort about a transgender student using the boys’ locker room.
• The transgender student, a biological female identifying as male, allegedly recorded the boys in the locker room, which is a violation of school policy prohibiting recordings in private spaces.
• Governor Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares announced a state-level probe, citing concerns over student privacy, safety, and parental rights.
• The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is separately investigating Loudoun’s transgender policies for potential Title IX violations.
• Loudoun County Public Schools denies penalizing students for opinions and states it only disciplines behavior that breaches its code of conduct.