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ARTICLE VIEW:
US Education Department says Denver school’s all-gender bathrooms
violate Title IX
By Associated Press
Updated:
12:00 AM EDT, Fri August 29, 2025
Source: AP
The US Education Department said Thursday that Denver Public Schools
violated Title IX protections against sex-based discrimination in
education by creating all-gender bathrooms and allowing students to use
bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity.
The finding followed an unprecedented probe of Denver’s East High
School that marked a sharp departure from the department’s
investigations under former Democratic President Joe Biden. It’s part
of a push by President Donald Trump’s Republican administration
against local and state policies that make allowances for transgender
students.
The investigation in Denver began after the school district converted a
girl’s restroom into an all-gender restroom while leaving another
bathroom on the same floor exclusive to boys in January. The school
district has said that was done as a result of a student-led process
and the bathroom had 12-foot tall partitions for privacy and security.
The school district later added a second all-gender restroom on the
same floor which it said was meant to address concerns of unfairness.
At the time it said that students would also continue to have access to
gender-specific restrooms and single-stall, all-gender bathrooms.
The Education Department said it offered the school district a chance
to voluntarily make changes, including converting multi-stall,
all-gender bathrooms back to ones designated by gender, within 10 days
or risk unspecified enforcement action.
It also wants the district to use biology-based definitions for the
words “male” and “female” in all policies and practices related
to Title IX and to rescind any policies or guidance allowing students
to use bathrooms based on their gender identity rather than their
biological sex.
“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,” Craig Trainor, the acting assistant secretary
of the department’s Office for Civil Rights, said in a news release.
Denver Public Schools officials said they had received the results of
the investigation and were “determining our next steps.”
The Trump administration has launched about two dozen investigations of
transgender policies in schools, including access to sports, locker
rooms and bathrooms, according to data compiled by The Hechinger
Report, a nonprofit news organization. Roughly half of the
investigations focus at least in part on who gets to use bathrooms in
some K-12 school districts in Virginia, Kansas, Washington state and
Colorado.
Trump signed an executive order in February to block trans girls from
participating on sports teams consistent with their gender identity.
Supporters said the move restored fairness in athletic competitions,
but opponents called it an attack on transgender youth.
Federal officials in June determined that California’s Department of
Education violated civil rights law by allowing transgender girls to
compete on girls sports teams. Officials under Trump also have sued
Maine over the participation of transgender athletes in girl’s sports
and last month launched an investigation into Oregon’s Department of
Education, following a complaint from a conservative group about
transgender girls on girls sports teams.
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