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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) moved to intervene in S.W. et al. v. Loudoun County Public School Board, the lawsuit America First Legal (AFL) and the Founding Freedoms Law Center (FFLC) filed against Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS). AFL and FFLC filed the lawsuit in September after LCPS punished two male students who objected to a biological female student entering the boys’ locker room. In October, AFL and FFLC secured a preliminary injunction that stopped LCPS from suspending the students and removed LCPS’s Title IX findings from their record.
“The Justice Department’s intervention underscores the seriousness of Loudoun County’s lawlessness,” said Gene Hamilton, President of America First Legal. “No school district has the authority to punish students for expressing concerns about privacy. The facts are clear, as is the law: ideology cannot override students’ rights.”
“Loudoun County Public Schools has an unfortunate recent history of discriminating against students and teachers who speak out against its policy compelling the use of other students’ ‘preferred pronouns’ and allowing self-identified ‘gender expansive’ students to use the locker rooms and bathrooms of the opposite sex,” said Ian Prior, Senior Counsel at America First Legal. “We are pleased that the Justice Department is taking LCPS’s constitutional violations seriously, and we look forward to prosecuting this case alongside it.”
“We welcome the Justice Department’s involvement in this case. Their intervention should send a strong and unmistakable signal to Loudoun County that ideology can not continue to harm students,” said Victoria Cobb, President of the Founding Freedoms Law Center.
Read DOJ’s statement announcing the motion to intervene here.
Read more about the case here.
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