Posted on Friday, August 22, 2025
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by Alan Jamison
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Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) is planning to suspend two boys who voiced their concerns earlier this year about a girl who identifies as male using their locker room and illegally filming them. The district launched a Title IX investigation against the boys and alleged that they committed sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination by asking why a girl was in the boys’ locker room with them.
Local journalist Nick Minock reported that LCPS is punishing the boys with “ten days of suspension and a no-contact order with the complainant, including not being able to be in any of the same classes.” The boys must also “meet with school administrators to determine a corrective action plan.”
During a rally outside a school board meeting for Arlington Public Schools (APS), Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears, who is also the Republican nominee for governor this November, blasted LCPS administrators for targeting the boys and their families. APS is another northern Virginia school district that is defying Title IX and allowing students to use restroom and locker room facilities that correspond with their “gender identity” rather than their biological sex.
“It is time for everyone to recognize what is settled truth: Girls are girls, and boys are boys,” Sears said. “Here we are, we’re talking about three boys who have been punished because they were trying to do the noble thing and say they were not comfortable having to undress in front of girls. Normally, we would applaud that. Instead, this school system has decided they are going to use the parents’ own tax money against them and punish these boys – and now these young men are branded with a label no parent wants them to have, which is boys who have sexually harassed [someone].”
One parent, Renae Smith, pulled her son out of the school district over the summer because of the investigation and moved to a different state. LCPS has stated he will be suspended if he returns.
“[We’re] absolutely floored that they came back and branded my son responsible for sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination with no solid evidence whatsoever,” Smith said. “We’re talking about scarring him for life by a biased process that’s supposed to protect fairness, but it’s shocking. It’s wrong, and it should terrify every single parent.”
The Founding Freedoms Law Center is representing the two boys and their families against LCPS. The law center is the legal arm of the Christian organization known as The Family Foundation. Victoria Cobb, who serves as the organization’s president, stated that LCPS administrators gave the boys a suspension to push a political agenda.
“Our clients have done nothing wrong, and they deserve to be deemed innocent,” Cobb said. “We’ve seen time and time again that Loudoun County, if given the opportunity to do the right thing, will instead do the wrong thing. LCPS, once again, shows that it is willing to harm students in the name of woke ideology.”
As AMAC Newsline previously reported, the story began in May when LCPS launched an investigation into three boys who said that they were uncomfortable with a biological girl using the boys’ locker room with them and filming them, a clear violation of state and federal law, as well as district policy. LCPS board policy “allows students to use bathrooms and locker rooms according to their gender identification, rather than biological sex.”
Minock reported at the time that the incident occurred at Stone Bridge High School – the same school where a boy who claimed to be “genderfluid” raped a female student in 2021, a crime which LCPS attempted to cover up.
The female student involved in this case began using the boys’ locker room earlier this year during the spring term. After a gym class in March, the girl used her phone in the locker room to record the boys saying they were uncomfortable with her being there, which is a clear violation of district policy that prohibits video recording in bathrooms and locker rooms.
Rather than investigate the girl, the district targeted the boys. Only two of the three boys were given a suspension. An investigation into one of the boys was reportedly dropped in June. This boy was Muslim. The two boys who received the suspension were Christian.
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares investigated the issue and found that the district retaliated against the boys for voicing their concerns based on religious objections. He referred the case to the Department of Education and the Department of Justice.
Families of the suspended boys and their supporters held a news conference outside Stone Bridge High School on Wednesday. The Founding Freedoms Law Center announced that they were partnering with America First Legal to fight back. One attorney representing the boys, Josh Hetzler, stated that they had “filed a Title IX appeal with LCPS, which thankfully paused the suspension for now.” He stated that they will “have no choice but to pursue swift legal action in the coming days” if LCPS does not back down.
Alan Jamison is the pen name of a political writer with extensive experience writing for several notable politicians and news outlets.
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