Trump administration says DPS violated Title IX with gender-neutral bathroom at East High

The U S Department of Guidance s Office for Civil Rights reported Thursday that Denver General Schools discriminated against girls by creating a gender-neutral bathroom at East High School and adopting a districtwide agenda that allows students to use facilities that correspond with their gender identity The Office of Civil Rights gave the district days to agree to a proposed resolution which includes converting any all-gender restrooms back to single-sex facilities or peril imminent enforcement action The agency informed in January that it was probing DPS after East High created the bathroom last academic year by converting a girls restroom into a bathroom for all genders The district is creating a hostile conditions for its students by endangering their safety privacy and dignity while denying them access to equal educational pursuits and opportunities Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor explained in a declaration 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 DPS spokesman Scott Pribble stated the district just received the findings from the Office for Civil Rights and is determining our next attempts District bureaucrats have previously defended the all-gender restroom at East High saying its creation was student-led and an inclusive space The Trump administration has repeatedly threatened to cut K- funding from school districts with policies that the federal cabinet calls discriminatory especially those that relate to gender identity the LGBTQ society and race DPS the state s largest school district received as much as million in federal grant funding for the - academic year The district s Board of Coaching voted in to require every school in the district to provide at least one all-gender bathroom in their buildings The Office for Civil Rights noted in a news release Thursday that both the East High bathroom and the district s initiative allowing students to use a facility based on their gender identity rather than biological sex violated Title IX by discriminating against students sex Under Title IX of the Teaching Amendments of organizations that receive federal funds may provide separate toilet and locker rooms based on sex but the facilities must be comparable to those offered to students of the opposite sex East High created the gender-neutral bathroom after students petitioned administrators for another facility The school converted a girls bathroom into an all-gender facility a decision district bureaucrats commented was made because it was more cost effective and didn t require the need to remove urinals form the boys bathroom Related Articles More than Colorado students frequently missed school last year New law prompts Colorado schools to eye curbs on trainee cellphone use including bell-to-bell bans Denver s East High converts boys bathroom to all-gender restroom amid Trump administration probe Colorado students math literacy scores largely reach or exceed pre-pandemic levels Here are Colorado s top-performing schools on CMAS tests The all-gender bathroom has stalls that offer more privacy than other facilities with -foot walls that almost reach the ceiling and metal blocks that prevent people from seeing through East High in recent weeks transformed a boys bathroom into a second all-gender restroom a move the district made in response to the federal establishment s study and to address any disparity But the Office for Civil Rights commented the new bathroom does not remedy its violation of Title IX because males are still allowed to invade sensitive female-only facilities This is a emerging story and will be updated Get more Colorado news by signing up for our Mile High Roundup email newsletter