DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Education Bureau said Thursday that Denver Public Schools violated Title IX protections against gender-based discrimination in education by creating bathrooms for all genders and allowing students to use bathrooms that correspond to their gender identity.
The discovery continued Unprecedented probe Denver’s East High School marked a sharp departure from a departmental investigation under former Democrat President Joe Biden. This is part of President Donald Trump’s Republican administration’s push for local and state policies that create allowances for transgender students.
The Denver investigation began after the district changed the girls’ toilets to all-gender toilets in January, leaving separate bathrooms on the same floor dedicated to boys. The district says it is the result of a student-led process, with the bathroom having a 12-foot (3.6 meters) tall partition for privacy and security.
The district later added a second all-gender toilet on the same floor, but said it was intended to address concerns of inequality. At the time, students also said they could access gender-specific toilets and all-gender bathrooms with single stalls.
The education department said it provided the district with the opportunity to convert multi-stal, all-gender bathrooms back to those designated by gender within 10 days or voluntarily make changes, including the risk of unspecified enforcement actions.
We also hope that all policies and practices related to Title IX use the biology-based definitions of the terms “male” and “female” and use districts to revoke policies and guidance that allow students to use bathrooms based on their gender identity rather than biological sex.
“Denver is free to support self-destructive gender ideology, but it is not free to accept federal taxpayer funds and hurt students by violating Title IX,” Craig Trainer, acting vice-secretary of the Civil Rights Bureau, said in a news release.
Denver Public Schools officials received the results of the investigation and said they were “deciding on the next step.”
The Trump administration has launched about 20 investigations School Transgender PolicyIt includes sports, locker rooms and bathroom access, according to data compiled by non-profit news organization Hechinger Report. About half of the survey focuses on people who can use bathrooms in several K-12 school districts in Virginia, Kansas, Washington and Colorado.
Trump I signed an administrative order in February Block the Trans Girls From participating in sports teams that match their gender identity. Supporters said the move restored athletic equity, but opponents called it an attack on transgender youth.
Federal officials in June decided that California Department of Education Violated civil rights laws by allowing it Transgender girl Competing with a girl’s sports team. He also has officials under Trump. I sued the main The survey was launched last month through the participation of trans athletes in girl sports. Oregon Department of Educationfollowing complaints from conservative groups about the transgender girls on the women’s sports team.
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