The U.S. 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 (3.6-meter) 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.”
When I read the title I was thinking is today opposite day? But then it says:
converted a girl’s restroom into an all-gender restroom while leaving another bathroom on the same floor exclusive to boys
Which obviously is gender discrimination.
But then it again takes a turn, where they realize it and fix it:
The school district later added a second all-gender restroom on the same floor which it said was meant to address concerns of unfairness.
And even went above and beyond:
At the time it said that students would also continue to have access to gender-specific restrooms and single-stall, all-gender bathrooms.
So now it’s really just about making trans peoples live a living hell. So the title was not wrong.
The ‘harm’ Denver is putting on students sounds better than the bathrooms I have at work
I have encountered a few all-gender bathrooms in the wild, and they have all been really nice. I hope they stop being a political football someday so we can get more of them.
You could drive a truck through the partition gaps in the gendered toilets at my office.
Those fascist fucks don’t realize their homes all have all-gendered bathrooms.
Also I thought the US had states rights and what not.
“How’d it die?”
“Bowel cancer. Would spend too long worrying about which bathroom it belongs in.”
“What about this one?”
"Bowel cancer. Kept confronting other genders instead of finishing wiping thoroughly enough "
“Genders? What’s that got to do with the digestive tract?”
“Nothing. But they’ve made social stereotypes and rules around them. Hair, likes, dislikes, colours, attractions, mannerisms, clothes… Many people live by these things like it’s their whole identity.”
“Identity for what? What are they trying to identify for?”
“We think other people, because it’s unlikely to be the animals.”
“But the people are making social rules for shitting based on genitals. Animals don’t even do that.”
“Correct.”
