Justice Department sues Loudoun Co. School Board, citing religious discrimination in bathroom policy

The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the Loudoun County School Board accusing the Northern Virginia school district of discriminating against two Christian students who were suspended after objecting to a transgender participant using boys the locker room Related stories Loudoun Co schools violated Title IX retaliated by suspending male students DOE says Loudoun Co students suspension on hold while legal action over locker room situation proceeds After review into Loudoun Co schools handling of locker room matter Miyares refers event to federal regime Va AG launches probe into Loudoun schools after uncomfortable boys locker room matter In a news release Monday the Justice Department disclosed the county school system applied a program pertaining to the acceptance of gender ideology onto two Christian and biologically male students in violation of the th Amendment of the Constitution Loudoun County s decision to advance and promote gender ideology tramples on the rights of religious students who cannot embrace ideas that deny biological reality Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the Justice Department s Civil Rights Division wrote in the release In May of this year Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares began an research into a March circumstance in which three Stone Bridge High School boys broadcasted that a transgender male scholar who is biologically female recorded a conversation they were having about being uncomfortable that he was in the boys locker room Miyares challenged the procedures of the school board which allows students to use bathrooms and locker rooms based on their gender identity Protocol and mentioned the suspension of the three students initiated a retaliatory Title IX study The DOJ stated that Loudoun County suspended the boys for days on the basis of sex-based discrimination and made them submit to a Comprehensive Attendee Sponsorship Plan that further violates the boys right to free exercise of religion at school The lawsuit is pending before the U S District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia LCPS denies those statements saying the students harassed the transgender candidate and threatened violence Heather Bardot attorney for the school board explained in an Oct opposition of the motion that the transgender male pupil was tired of the relentless harassment and decided to film the three boys in the locker room to have proof in a formal Title IX complaint he filed just a limited days later Loudoun County Masses Schools declined WTOP s request for comment WTOP has also reached out to Bardot for comment Source