{"id":12093,"date":"2025-12-12T19:30:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=12093"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:30:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:30:49","slug":"doj-defends-students-punished-for-opposing-girl-in-boys-locker-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=12093","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Defends Students Punished for Opposing Girl in Boys’ Locker Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The U.S. Department of Justice is coming to the defense of two Virginia public high school students suspended earlier this year for speaking out against the presence of a female trans-identified student in the male locker room.\n<\/p>\n

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The Justice Department filed a\u00a0motion to intervene\u00a0on Monday in the case of\u00a0S.W. et al. v. Loudoun County School Board<\/em>, which centers on two Christian male students reportedly suspended after they objected to a girl who identifies as a boy in their locker room.\n<\/p>\n

Loudoun County school officials \u201cintentionally discriminated on the basis of religion in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,\u201d the administration lawyers contend.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause Plaintiffs and the United States both allege an Equal Protection claim regarding religious discrimination, the United States\u2019 claim shares common questions of law and fact with Plaintiffs\u2019 claims,\u201d stated the motion.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cStudents do not shed their First Amendment rights at the schoolhouse gate,\u201d said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division, in a\u00a0statement\u00a0released Monday.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cLoudoun County\u2019s decision to advance and promote gender ideology tramples on the rights of religious students who cannot embrace ideas that deny biological reality.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Under Loudoun County\u2019s\u00a0Policy 8040,\u00a0enacted in 2021, \u201cstaff shall allow gender-expansive or transgender students to use their chosen name and gender pronouns that reflect their consistently asserted gender identity without any substantiating evidence, regardless of the name and gender recorded in the student\u2019s permanent educational record.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cLCPS staff shall allow gender-expansive and transgender students to participate in such activities in a manner consistent with the student\u2019s gender identity,\u201d continued the policy.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cAll students are entitled to have access to restrooms and locker rooms that are sanitary, safe, and adequate, so that they can comfortably and fully engage in their school programs and activities. Students shall be allowed to use the facility that corresponds to their consistently asserted gender identity.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

According to court documents, a female student recently entered the boys\u2019 locker room at Stone Bridge High School, taking advantage of the policy and recorded video of the boys there.\n<\/p>\n

Two Christian male students whose faith led them to use the biologically correct pronouns for people and to use sex-segregated facilities were among those who denounced the incident.\n<\/p>\n

In March, the Founding Freedoms Law Center\u00a0announced\u00a0that Loudoun County Public Schools was investigating three boys for allegedly engaging in \u201csexual harassment\u201d over the incident, with the officials eventually imposing 10-day suspensions on two of the students.\n<\/p>\n

The parents of the students filed a lawsuit against Loudoun officials, with Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia\u00a0granting\u00a0a preliminary injunction in October that\u00a0blocks the school district from enforcing the suspensions.\n<\/p>\n

Loudoun County Public Schools made national headlines a few years ago when the Washington, D.C.-area school district was debating Policy 8040, permitting trans-identified students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their stated gender identity instead of their sex.\n<\/p>\n

The school district drew controversy in 2021 for suspending an elementary school teacher who spoke at a school board meeting against the policy, which had not yet been approved.\n<\/p>\n

The teacher sued school officials, and court injunctions were issued against the school district as the case was adjudicated. The two parties ultimately reached a\u00a0settlement\u00a0in which officials reversed the suspension and paid $20,000 in attorneys\u2019 fees in exchange for the teacher dropping the lawsuit.\n<\/p>\n

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This article was originally published at The Christian Post. Photo Credit: United States Department of Justice.<\/em>
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