Last week, a federal judge ruled that Loudoun County Public Schools’ (LCPS) leadership must delay the suspensions of male students who asserted their discomfort about a female student being in the boys’ locker room at Stone Bridge High School.
America First Legal’s Ian Prior, one of the plaintiffs’ lawyers, told IW Features, “We are pleased that the Court granted the preliminary injunction and that the suspensions and findings against our clients will not go onto their permanent record while we litigate this case to a successful conclusion.”
In May 2025, a female student who claimed to be transgender entered the boys’ locker room and recorded the boys on her phone. In the video recording, three boys questioned why there was a girl in the boys’ locker room. One of them said, “Why is there a girl? I’m so uncomfortable, there is a girl. A female bro. Get out of here.”
LCPS’s Title IX Office “investigated” the incident. Rather than taking issue with the fact that a female student recorded 15-year-old boys in their own locker room––which is illegal––the “investigation” found that the boys violated Title IX by vocalizing their discomfort.
If you’re wondering how we got to the point where a public school district could take the most draconian measures to penalize children for exercising their free speech rights, you’re not alone. LCPS, and many other leftist school districts across the nation, have twisted the interpretation of Title IX so drastically that it is unrecognizable from its original intent.
While Title IX is actually about sex equality, the TQ+ mafia (of LGBTQ+) has distorted the law to suggest it is somehow about protecting people who want to use bathrooms and locker rooms of the opposite sex.
In August 2021, LCPS codified that nonsense into its school code with Policy 8040. The policy states, “Students should be allowed to use the facility that corresponds to their consistently asserted gender identity.”
If this rewrite of Title IX wasn’t bad enough, the phrase “consistently asserted gender identity” seems to be a mystery in the implementation phase. In practice, in Northern Virginia’s public schools, on the first day a student claims to be the opposite gender, he or she is granted access to the preferred facilities. There is no professional gender dysphoria diagnosis required.
And apparently, according to LCPS’s Title IX Office “investigators,” in their infinite wisdom, simply stating that one is uncomfortable with a member of the opposite sex in the locker room is also deemed “sexual harassment.”
Suzanne Satterfield, a Loudoun County mother and chapter leader of the Independent Women’s Network, believes that LCPS’s findings of the “investigation” are vindictive. She told IW Features, “LCPS doesn’t like being exposed for any wrongdoing and instead of removing the suspension from these boys’ records…they are doubling down to destroy the boys and their families.”
Leftist public school districts’ dysfunction and abuse of students’ free speech rights is any parent’s nightmare. Seth Wolfe, the father of one of the boys in the locker room, told IW Features, “This case is not just about my son; it’s about all of our children, and every parent should take notice. If it can happen to us, it can happen to your family.”
He continued, “School boards around this country have unlimited budgets and no oversight. Loudoun County and other school boards and districts have policies in place that deny students and parents of basic constitutional rights. Something must be done. When you have to pay to protect your children’s rights, it’s a clear sign that the system is broken.”
The system is definitely broken. In order to uphold the preliminary injunction to prevent LCPS from suspending the boys before the case is adjudicated, the federal judge charged the families a $125,000 bond. That is an egregious amount for parents to pay to protect their sons from unjust suspensions and “sexual harassment” record stains.
Thankfully, in response, community members donated the full amount to the families in under a week.
Despite the obstacles––including an obscene and seemingly arbitrary bond fee and unconstitutional public school policies––many Northern Virginians are rallying in support of these families and hoping that with time, justice will prevail.
