Denver – The United States Department of Education said Tuesday that he was investigating the public schools of Denver for alleged discrimination after the district turned a girl’s bath on the second floor of a high school in a gender bath while leaving another exclusive children’s bathroom.
The accusation of the department that the measure can violate title IX, which prohibits discrimination based on sex, seems to have no precedents, and marks a strong deviation from the investigations of the department under former President Joe Biden.
The Democrat’s administration interpreted title IX for Include LGBTQ+ protectionsAlthough politics was later Voled by a federal judge.
“Let me be clear: it is a new day in the United States, and under President Trump, (the Office of Civil Rights) will not tolerate discrimination of any kind,” said Craig Trainor, the assistant secretary of civil rights, in a news. release.
Denver’s public schools said in a statement that it has not received a formal notice of the investigation of the conversion of the bathroom in East High School. The statement said school officials will wait to provide comments.
Brett Sokolow, president of the Association of Administrators of Title IX, said the questions have not yet been tested.
“They are arguing that a gender bath is not comparable to a single -genre bath,” Sakolow said. “I would have to establish that you are somehow entitled to a single sex bath, and although the Trump administration may believe that I do not know if that will be confirmed by the courts.”
The Department of Education investigates thousands of complaints of Title IX every year, mainly dealing with athletics. Almost all cases have been resolved through voluntary resolutions with schools and schools, although the agency has authority to terminate federal funds for institutions that violate civil rights laws.
In a case of 2024, the Department of Civil Rights investigated an unleashed school district after a transgender high school student allegedly faced repeated harassment, including that they told him that he was in the wrong bath. The district reached an agreement to end the case, adding staff training and inviting the student to join a LGBTQ dissemination committee.
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Associated Press Collin Binkley reporter in Washington, DC, contributed to this report.
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