Five school districts in Northern Virginia have violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 by allowing students to access “intimate, sex-segregated facilities based on the students’ subjective ‘gender identity,’” the Department of Education said in a July 25 statement.
Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs and activities that receive federal funding.
In February, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened a Title IX investigation into five Northern Virginia school districts—Alexandria City Public Schools, Arlington Public Schools, Fairfax County Public Schools, Loudoun County Public Schools, and Prince William County Public Schools….