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ARTICLE VIEW:
Denver school district pushes back but hasn’t decided whether to
change all-gender bathrooms
By Associated Press
Updated:
12:19 AM EDT, Sat August 30, 2025
Source: AP
Denver school officials pushed back Friday against a US Education
Department finding that its all-gender bathrooms protections against
sex-based discrimination, accusing the Trump administration of using
that law to promote an “anti-trans agenda.”
In a statement, Denver Public Schools said the department did not cite
any statutes or legal cases to back up its finding, announced Thursday,
that multi-stall, all-gender bathrooms are unlawful, and vowed to
support LGBTQ+ students, families and their supporters.
However, the district has not decided whether to convert two all-gender
bathrooms that sparked the probe back into boys’ and girls’
bathrooms, spokesperson Scott Pribble said.
The Education Department said it has offered the school district a
chance to voluntarily make that change and others, such as rescinding
any policies or guidance allowing students to use bathrooms based on
their gender identity rather than their biological sex, within 10 days
or risk unspecified enforcement action. It suggested that its federal
funding could be cut.
The investigation began after the school district converted a girl’s
restroom at East High School 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 that it said was meant to address concerns of unfairness.
The Education Department said the investigation was first the one
involving the law that was undertaken by its Office for Civil Rights
under the Trump administration.
Denver Public Schools said no one came to look at the bathrooms or
conduct interviews as part of the probe, and its attempts to discuss
remedies were ignored.
“We will protect all of our students from this hostile administration
while we continue to raise the bar on achievement,” it said.
The district gets about $10 million a year in federal funds, which
accounts for less than 1% of its annual $1.5 billion budget.
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.
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