Education Department... end trans-inclusive bathroom policies

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Education Department orders 5 school districts to immediately end trans-inclusive bathroom policies

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/education-department-orders-5-school-districts-to-immediately-end-trans-inclusive-bathroom-policies/

Molly Sprayregen (29 July 2025)

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) has ordered five school districts in Northern Virginia to immediately end their trans-inclusive policies that allow students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identities.

ED claimed the districts – Alexandria City Public Schools, Arlington Public Schools, Fairfax County Public Schools, Loudoun County Public Schools, and Prince William County Public Schools – were in violation of Title IX and guilty of discrimination on the basis of sex.

The right has latched on to the completely unfounded argument that trans inclusion puts cis women in danger. In reality, research has shown no evidence that allowing trans women access to single-sex spaces like bathrooms poses a safety risk to cisgender women.

In fact, forcing trans people to use facilities that do not align with their gender identity can result in "high rates of harassment and violence against transgender people as well as cisgender people, particularly women who do not conform to traditional ideas of femininity," according to the Movement Advancement Project. A 2021 study from UCLA's Williams Institute found that trans people are four times more likely than cis people to be victims of violent crime.

Nevertheless, ED has ordered the schools to rescind their trans-inclusive policies within 10 days and to "adopt biology-based definition of the words 'male' and 'female' in all practices and policies relating to Title IX."