Denver school's all-gender bathrooms violate Title IX, Education Department finds

The U S Department of Mentoring commented on Thursday that it unveiled Denver Constituents Schools violated Title IX which prohibits sex-based discrimination in teaching by establishing all-gender bathrooms and allowing students to use bathrooms that match their gender identity rather than their biological sex The department's Office for Civil Rights opened an inspection in January shortly after President Donald Trump returned to the White House into Denver s East High School after the school district converted a girl s bathroom into an all-gender restroom while leaving another bathroom on the same floor just for boys The district has stated the change was made after a student-led process and that the bathroom had -foot-tall partitions around the toilets for privacy and assurance TRUMP ADMINISTRATION THREATENS TO PULL FEDERAL FUNDS FROM VIRGINIA SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN GENDER STRATEGY DISPUTEA second all-gender restroom was later on the same floor which the district stated was done to address concerns of unfairness The district mentioned at the time that students would also continue to have access to gender-specific bathrooms and single-stall all-gender restrooms The federal leadership disclosed it sent the district a proposed resolution that includes four conditions to which it must agree within the next days to resolve the matter and avoid facing the exposure of imminent enforcement action Denver Residents Schools violated Title IX and its implementing regulations by converting a sex-segregated restroom designated for girls in East High School to an 'all-gender' facility and by allowing students to use the high school s intimate facilities on the basis of their gender identity rather than their biological sex Craig Trainor the acting assistant secretary of the department s Office for Civil Rights noted in a message GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY VIOLATED TITLE VI WITH 'UNLAWFUL DEI POLICIES ' GUIDANCE DEPARTMENT SAYS As a development the District is creating a hostile milieu for its students by endangering their safety privacy and dignity while denying them access to equal educational exercises and opportunities he continued Denver is free to endorse a self-defeating gender ideology but it is not free to accept federal taxpayer funds and harm its students in violation of Title IX The Trump Administration will work relentlessly to hold accountable school districts that harbor the ideological fanatics and policies that sully students educational experience with sex discrimination The proposed resolution would require the district to redesignate all-gender bathrooms back to sex-designated multi-stall restrooms scrap any policies or guidance allowing students to access bathrooms based on gender identity rather than biological sex and adopt biology-based definitions for the words male and female in all policies and practices related to Title IX The district must also issue a memorandum to its schools affirming that they must provide access to bathrooms that protect the privacy dignity and safety of students and are comparably accessible to each sex It is also required to state that Title IX compliance ensures girls may not be discriminated against in any development plan or activity Fox News Digital reached out to Denver Community Schools for comment Under the Trump administration federal leaders have sought to target school districts for policies allowing students to use bathrooms or participate on sports teams that correspond with their gender identity The president signed an executive order in February to block transgender girls from participating on sports teams that do not match their biological sex Earlier this week House Republicans introduced decree to prohibit transgender girls from bathrooms or sports teams or restrooms that align with their gender identity and not their biological sex The Associated Press contributed to this statement