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The authorized crew representing two boys suspended for questioning a transgender classmate’s entry to the boys’ locker room have now filed an amended federal grievance alleging contemporary factual claims and a brand new conspiracy cost, as they escalate their federal case towards the Loudoun County Public Colleges (LCPS) in Virginia.
America First Authorized and the Founding Freedoms Legislation Middle, who’re representing the boys and their households, added new factual allegations to their beforehand submitted federal grievance on Wednesday, alleging LCPS engaged in a conspiracy to retaliate towards the boys. It additionally claimed there have been alleged inconsistencies within the district’s dealing with of its Title IX investigation that discovered the boys responsible of sexual harassment and suspended them for 10 days.
“Loudoun County Public Colleges’ Title IX investigation into our shoppers inexplicably relied on non-credible proof, ignored credible witness testimony, didn’t interview key
witnesses, deleted doubtlessly exonerating video proof, and didn’t disclose LCPS’s personal admission that the allegations towards our shoppers didn’t represent sexual harassment,” mentioned Ian Prior, Senior Counsel at America First Authorized.
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Video from a locker room in Stone Bridge Excessive College the place a trans male was in a male rest room. (Loudoun County Sheriff’s Workplace)
“Making issues worse, and as we set forth within the amended grievance, it seems that the varsity board was passing alongside confidential data to a political motion committee for the aim of additional retaliating towards our shoppers and their households. If confirmed true at trial, and we intend to do precisely that, this complete affair is a travesty of justice, a waste of taxpayer cash to defend, and every little thing that’s flawed with the Loudoun County College Board and its misplaced priorities.”
Earlier this yr, LCPS, situated in Northern Virginia, launched a Title IX sexual harassment investigation into two high-school-aged boys after they had been videotaped by a organic feminine who recognized as transgender contained in the boys’ locker room. The video caught them outwardly complaining to one another about the truth that there was a organic woman who recognized as a boy utilizing their services.
Earlier than taking the case to federal courtroom, the boys and their dad and mom sought to attraction LCPS’s Title IX sexual harassment discovering to maintain the boys from being suspended or marked as sexual harassers on their everlasting file. Nevertheless, their attraction was finally denied by the district, main the households to pursue motion in federal courtroom.
On Wednesday, the households turned up the warmth with contemporary allegations not specified by their unique grievance, together with that the district conspired with a neighborhood political motion committee, Loudoun for All, for the aim of retaliating towards the boys and their households.
The amended grievance additionally factors to inconsistencies within the district’s Title IX investigation, comparable to counting on non-credible proof, ignoring credible proof and witness testimony, misrepresenting proof, failing to interview key witnesses, and failing to reveal doubtlessly exonerating proof.
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Fox Information Digital interviewed two Virginia dad and mom whose youngsters have been accused of sexual harassment for complaining a couple of organic woman who identifies as a boy utilizing their locker room. (Fox Information/istock)
The contemporary grievance claims that days after the federal courtroom issued a preliminary injunction halting LCPS from suspending the boys or making Title IX findings a part of their scholar file, the district reached out to Loudoun For All and corroborated with them in a press launch and different messaging supplies that included “quite a few false and defamatory allegations” used to generate a public narrative towards the boys and their households. The press releases and different supplies, comparable to a timeline of the case’s occasions, had been listed on the political motion committee’s web site, Fb web page, Reddit account and Bluesky account, and allegedly additionally contained privileged, confidential data pertaining to the case cited in a subsequent native media report titled, “Locker Room Lawsuit In opposition to LCPS Entails Misinformation, Loudoun4All Says.”
The press launch Loudoun For All put out accused the boys’ dad and mom of “orchestrat[ing] a coordinated marketing campaign of disinformation, knowingly misrepresenting details to gasoline political outrage,” and argued that they had been attempting to “inflame voters forward of an election.”
It additionally claimed that 24 witnesses corroborated that the boys’ referred to as the feminine scholar, who identifies as transgender, a “woman,” “it,” “girl-boy,” and informed them “get out” whereas contained in the boy’s locker room. However, in response to the boys’ authorized counsel, witnesses by no means corroborated these claims and the feminine scholar’s accusations of when the harassment happened gave the impression to be inconsistent.
Loudoun For All didn’t reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
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In the meantime, the grievance additionally alleges that LCPS didn’t disclose {that a} video cited as proof within the district’s Title IX discovering towards the boys included the feminine scholar saying “I received it” whereas laughing. It provides that the district allegedly deleted different video the feminine scholar took of boys utilizing or popping out of the toilet.
The amended grievance notes that regardless of inconsistencies within the feminine scholar’s story at instances, they had been credited with “superior credibility” by Title IX investigators within the district. Moreover, it claims {that a} menace evaluation of the male college students discovered no menace and the district had beforehand concluded {that a} scenario just like the one at hand resulted within the district discovering no trigger for a sexual harassment beneath federal legislation.
LCPS declined to touch upon the amended grievance, telling Fox Information Digital that it’s the district’s follow to not touch upon pending authorized issues.
A transgender flag waves at an undisclosed location on an undisclosed date (left). A choose makes use of his gavel (proper). (Getty Pictures/iStock)
Shortly after LCPS denied the boys’ Title IX attraction, the U.S. Division of Training’s Workplace for Civil Rights discovered LCPS violated Title IX by discriminating towards the boys on the premise of intercourse. Particularly, the Training Division’s Workplace of Civil Rights decided LCPS “didn’t meaningfully examine complaints of sexual harassment by two male college students regarding the presence of a member of the other intercourse in male-only intimate areas but completely investigated the feminine scholar’s sexual harassment grievance concerning the boys.”
Each of the boy’s dad and mom informed Fox Information Digital in August that their sons tried to voice discomfort to high school officers concerning the feminine classmate utilizing their locker room, however that their complaints fell on deaf ears.
ASHBURN, VA – AUGUST 11: Supporters of Coverage 8040 have fun with indicators because the transgender safety measures had been voted into the varsity system’s insurance policies throughout a college board assembly on the Loudoun County Public Colleges Administration Constructing on August 11, 2021 in Ashburn, Va. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Submit through Getty Pictures)
The Trump administration indicated LCPS would lose federal funding if they didn’t rescind its suspensions and sexual harassment findings towards the 2 boys, evaluate its preliminary findings, and examine the Title IX grievance the boys filed towards the feminine scholar for videotaping them within the locker room, which the boys’ attorneys say was ignored by the district.
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“The amended grievance we filed as we speak unveils Loudoun County Public Colleges’ sham focusing on of those boys whereas it ignored quite a few, credible threats to their privateness and security,” mentioned Victoria Cobb, President of the Founding Freedoms Legislation Middle. “As alleged, a feminine scholar repeatedly filmed male college students, together with whereas utilizing the toilet, but Loudoun did nothing. As a substitute, Loudoun seems to have conspired with an out of doors political group to proceed its assaults towards these boys and their dad and mom.”
The Trump administration has additionally included LCPS amongst a listing of 5 Northern Virginia college districts in violation of Title IX because of their locker room and toilet insurance policies. Because of that willpower, the districts’ federal funding will now be “performed by reimbursement solely” and the Trump administration commenced proceedings to doubtlessly terminate their funding altogether, the Training Division indicated over the summer time.
