Stone Bridge High School is back in the news with yet another transgenderism dust-up.
Loudoun County’s parental uprising helped win now-Governor Glenn Youngkin his election in 2021. It was an uprising, you’ll remember, spurred by progressive district policies that allowed a “skirt-wearing” male to enter a women’s bathroom at Stone Bridge High School, where he violently sexually assaulted her.
Stone Bridge High School is back in the news. Virginia reporter Nick Minock published a great investigation into the latest scandal involving the district’s transgender bathroom policies. The district has opened a sexual harassment investigation into three high school boys because they reported being uncomfortable with the presence of a female in their locker room. The female student allegedly filmed the boys talking about her presence and filed a complaint with school officials. The female identifies as a male.
The mother of one of the boys said at a school board meeting that her son was “wrongfully accused of a Title IX violation. In truth, he is a victim of a Title IX violation ignored and unsupported by the very system that is supposed to protect him.” A father of one of the boys said that the LCPS policy, which allows students to use facilities that correspond with their gender identity, “creates an unsafe environment for all kids at all levels, from the elementary schools and middle school to the high school . . . I do want our son and his future and these other students to be protected, but I think that the bigger issue is that the policy itself is not keeping our students safe.”
LCPS, along with a handful of other Virginia school districts, is under investigation by President Donald Trump’s Department of Education for its transgender bathroom and locker-room policies, which defy Trump’s recent executive order protecting sex-segregated spaces in public schools.
Trump’s executive order was enacted to protect women and girls in sports, he said at the time. The Loudon County case brings up an often overlooked victim of transgender bathroom policies: boys. Boys may not suffer the same physical threats women do when members of the opposite sex invade their spaces, but they’re affected nonetheless. With trans policies, some high-school boys are forced to stand in the bathroom next to a girl trying to use a urinal (this has happened in various school districts). Introducing members of the opposite sex into sex-segregated spaces also effectively ruins gender-specific conversation and increases the chances of spurious accusations against young men doing nothing more than changing in preparation for athletics or class.
Is it now the policy of radical school districts to threaten high-school boys with a Title IX investigation who are doing nothing more than discussing these concerns among themselves?