The education department provides five Northern Virginia school districts with the ability of transgender students to use their chosen names and pronouns at schools that match their gender identity. By enabling the use of pronouns, it investigates whether it violates one of President Trump's recent executive orders.
The department's Civil Rights Office has opened probes in Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax, Loudon and Prince William County School Districts. letter He was sent to America First Legal on Wednesday. This is a conservative organization founded by the White House Deputy Chiefs of Staff Stephen Miller.
The group had I asked the department To investigate five school districts earlier this month, each of them continues its policy aimed at supporting transgender students who violate Title IX, a federal civil rights law that prohibits school sex discrimination. He claims that there is. Policy varies by school district, but all trans students are allowed to use toilets and changing rooms that are tailored to their gender identity.
First Legal claimed in a complaint that the policy was also inconsistent with January 29th Presidential Order It targets public schools that promote what Trump and his administration call “gender ideology.”
The organization requires staff to deal with transgender students using their chosen names and pronouns, stipulates in an order that prohibits public schools from assisting students in the “social” gender transition. He said he is violating the
When people move socially, they usually change their name, pronoun, or clothing to match their gender identity. Social transitions do not include medical interventions.
In a complaint to the Department of Education, First Legal states that the district's transgender policy “is less consistent with biological sex than students whose 'gender identity' matches biological sex with biological sex.” It provides great rights to students.”
“Therefore, these policies erase the concept of biological sex in favour of “gender identity,” and codify discrimination based on gender,” the group wrote.
The education department did not immediately return a request for comment.
The school district mentioned in the complaint is in the majority of Virginia's blue area, where former Vice President Harris won in 2024, and previously rejected a call from the Glen Youngkin administration, a Republican, for transgender students. Specific non-discriminatory protections have been rolled back.
The Model Transgender Policy, finalized by Youngkin's Education Division in 2023, grants schools access to facilities and sports teams that match their gender identity, allowing peers and teachers to mislead them. I tried not to do so. The model policy that sparked student-led protests across the state did not include enforcement mechanisms.
Prince William County Public Schools confirmed on Hill Monday that the education department has notified the investigation.
“Of course, the PWC will help with the investigation,” the district said in an email statement. “The PWC remains committed to providing a welcoming and nurturing learning environment where all students feel safe, physically and emotionally safe and supported.”
Loudoun County Public Schools said they “aware of the investigation and will respond according to the law.”
Representatives from public schools in Arlington, Alexandria and Fairfax did not immediately return requests for comment.
The Education Division Survey on School Districts is the latest in a series of probes launched by public schools and athletic associations supporting transgender students.
The department said it was investigating Denver High School's all-gender bathrooms late last month, and earlier this month they said it would not comply with Trump's executive order banning transgender athletes from girls. The association's survey has been announced. And women's sports.
The education department is also investigating sports associations and two universities in another state, allowing transgender student-athletes to compete in women's teams for “apparent Title IX violations.”
