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Title IX Investigation — Loudoun 4 All

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Our schools cannot function, and our communities cannot heal, when facts are sacrificed for headlines. We will continue to stand with students and families committed to facts, inclusion, and safe schools for everyone.

We must ensure that our school administrators do not tolerate bullying or harassment and that they enforce the board's zero-tolerance bullying policy.

We are reminded of the incident in 2021, when, much like this year, an event at Stone Bridge High School was used by political operatives to attack transgender students and swing votes.

Loudoun4All condemns this campaign of disinformation in the strongest possible terms. Furthermore, we ask why this episode of harassment was allowed to go on for a full school year before being addressed.

Parents and politicians who misrepresent bullying over the span of an entire school year as “discomfort” are not defending free expression—they are defending harassment.

Loudoun4All reaffirms that our schools must protect all students from harassment and ensure every child is treated with dignity and respect.

The judge’s requirement of a six-figure bond underscores the weakness of the plaintiffs’ case and undercuts the narrative being circulated by their parents and political backers.

This order is not a finding against LCPS. This injunction does not invalidate the investigation, overturn the findings, or clear the students of responsibility. It is a procedural pause, not an exoneration.

The injunction halts two students’ suspensions from Stone Bridge High School. The judge required the plaintiffs to post a $125,000 bond by October 15, citing “significant weaknesses in the plaintiffs’ allegations.”

It has once again used LCPS students, educators, and families as political pawns in a cynical effort to stoke fear and division. On Friday, October 10, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction temporarily pausing LCPS’ enforcement.

This deceit has real victims. It has retraumatized the targeted student, endangered LGBTQ+ youth across the county, and forced LCPS and taxpayers to shoulder the cost of defending against a narrative built on lies.

Yet, even with these facts in hand, adults—some of whom hold political ambitions—chose to manipulate the story, turning a child’s suffering into a talking point to inflame voters ahead of an election.

The investigation further confirmed that the trans student, who briefly recorded a video in the locker room, was separately investigated and disciplined under LCPS Policy 8655 for violating school rules, contrary to what parents have claimed.

The report also says that the students repeated “their questions at a loud volume over weeks and months, typically outside the presence of any authority figure.”

Over the 2024–2025 school year, the students targeted their transgender classmate, creating a hostile environment that caused the student to stop using the locker room altogether.

An independent Title IX investigation—backed by 24 staff and student witnesses—found that the students’ conduct was severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive, amounting to relentless harassment over the course of a year.

They spread disinformation, knowingly misrepresenting the facts to fuel political outrage. They claimed these students were punished merely for “expressing discomfort” about a transgender peer. They knew that was false.

LCPS has released the details of its Title IX investigation into two students who harassed and bullied a transgender student. Since May, the parents of the cis students, their attorneys, and several aligned media outlets have orchestrated a coordinated campaign.

Today at 1 PM, Virginia Republicans, including gubernatorial candidate Winsome Sears, will gather alongside boys who were found to have participated in sex-based discrimination against a transgender student to stage yet another election-year spectacle.

Shoutout to my constituent Jess, who spearheaded the organizing in Prince William County and reignited the successful fight from those of us who advocated for 16 grueling months in 2016-2017 when we got PWCS to finally include sexual orientation and gender identity in its nondiscrimination policy.

At what point will violence not only be accepted, but also expected? This is horrifying. These are PEOPLE. Actual HUMAN BEINGS. This country is fucking disgusting.

Thank you for reporting on this.

We already knew this would be the case.

They’re afraid of us. When you see them, record them. Trump won’t be president forever and these people will have to pay for what they’ve done eventually.

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We’re proud to stand with our neighbors in the fight for equality, inclusion, and dignity.

Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw

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