The Department of Education has concluded in an investigation that started shortly after President Donald Trump took office that five Northern Virginia school districts’ bathroom and locker room policies violate Title IX federal law and an executive order calling for the end of “radical indoctrination in K-12 schooling.”
Secretary Linda McMahon told Washington, D.C., ABC affiliate WJLA Friday that the school districts’ policies of allowing students to use facilities matching their gender identity, not their birth sex, were “making girls feel vulnerable.”
“They don’t want to sit there and have boys watch them undress, or to have boys undress in front of them,” McMahon said. “And these are high schools that we’re talking about. So these are really young men and women in these locker rooms. And so we feel that they have to change that policy.”
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