I had a strange sense of deja vu as I read this the other day:
Loudoun County Public Schools has opened a Title IX investigation into three high school boys who said they were uncomfortable with a female student using the boys’ locker room.The Loudon County School Board policy allows students to use school bathrooms and locker rooms according to their gender identification, rather than biological sex.
Back in 2021, a trans-identifying boy had raped a girl in a Loudoun school girls bathroom. The school district covered up the crime and transferred the boy to another school where he proceeded to sexually assault a second girl.
The episode helped juice the 2021 Loudoun County school protests and lead to the Republicans generating an 11-point swing and propelling Glenn Youngkin to the Virginia governor’s mansion later that year. To top it off the school superintendent faced criminal charges for covering up the matter.
Usually when a scandal like this breaks, the organization involved is a bit chastened and becomes purer than Caesar’s wife. Yet less than four years later, here’s Loudoun not only playing bathroom games but crushing students who complain.