Cis Students Were Suspended for Calling Trans Kid a "Girl Boy." Now Trump's DOJ Is Defending Themhttps://www.them.us/story/loudon-county-public-schools-department-of-justice-lawsuit-trans-harassment 🔗Samantha Riedel (10 Dec 2025)
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is throwing its weight behind a lawsuit against a Virginia school district, in which two students claim school officials violated their religious freedom by suspending them for allegedly harassing a transgender classmate.
Two Christian students at Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) filed suit against the district in September, after they were reportedly suspended for sexually harassing a trans boy who uses boys' locker rooms and bathrooms at school. DOJ officials filed a motion to intervene in the students' lawsuit on Monday, claiming that the LCPS school board violated the 14th Amendment by suspending the students and by enforcing trans-inclusive school policies against them. The students are represented by America First Legal, the far-right law firm founded by white nationalist and Trump administration official Stephen Miller.
"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 for the Office of Human Rights (OCR) Harmeet K. Dhillon claimed in a press release Monday.
The trans student made audio recordings of the harassment and filed a Title IX discrimination claim of his own in March of this year "which LCPS was obligated to investigate," leading to the suspensions, the district contended.
