Loudoun County Public Schools pursued punishment against boys who complained about being filmed by a girl in the boys’ locker room — and not the girl who was filming, who identifies as transgender — even though the girl repeatedly changed her story about purported anti-transgender harassment, a lawsuit filed Wednesday said.
The Virginia school district doled out 10-day suspensions to boys who asked each other why a girl was in the boys’ locker room, even though officials’ interviews with a multitude of teachers and students failed to corroborate the girl’s claims that the boys had denigrated, threatened, and ordered her to leave, the suit said.
A lawsuit filed Wednesday accuses district officials of deleting at least one other recording the female student made of boys using the bathroom, leaking confidential information to a left-wing PAC that it says defamed the boys, and declining to discipline a Muslim student who was uncomfortable with a girl in the boys’ locker room, only two Christian ones.
The incident occurred at the same school, Stone Bridge, where a transgender rapist struck in 2021. Loudoun County Public Schools officials covered up that rape because it would have posed an impediment to passing a transgender policy, Policy 8040, which allowed transgenders to use the opposite sex’s bathrooms and locker rooms.
The school district is now using that policy to go after the pair of Christian boys at the center of this case — even after the federal Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights said last month that the district could lose federal funding unless it cancels the boys’ suspensions and apologizes to them.
Lawyers for America First Legal and the Founding Freedoms Law Center, which filed the suit on behalf of two boys, said it’s another example of the school district engaging in misconduct to promote transgender ideology.
The girl originally stated that the threat occurred on March 17, but later clarified it was on March 21. Originally, she said a trio of boys “constantly screamed at the [female student] calling him a ‘Boy-girl,’ ‘It,’ and ‘Girl Female,’” and “got in her face,” saying “if you ever come in here again, we’re gonna beat your ass.” But she later said she didn’t know who shouted at her, and that she “barely remembered” the incident.
The school interviewed more than a dozen teachers and students, none of whom had heard these comments, and even the girl’s friends stated that she never mentioned it to them when discussing her locker room woes, the suit said.
One of the boys told investigators that none of them had ever addressed any comment to the girl or used any disparaging language, but simply asked in a conversation among themselves why there was a girl in the locker room.
The girl specifically said that one of the students who made the threat was a Muslim student. The most specific allegations were against that student: she said that during science class last year, he also told her “You guys are a disappointment to humanity,” referring to transgenders, and would “constantly misgender” her.
Loudoun County Public Schools’ Title IX investigators determined that the Muslim student did not make the “disappointment to humanity” comment, the suit said. Still, the school system sided with the girl, citing her “credibility.”
In disciplinary proceedings against the boys, Loudoun County Public Schools also stated that a video captured one of the students calling her a “girl-boy,” even though documents obtained through the lawsuit show that school investigators specifically said they heard no such thing. A speaker can be heard saying “girl-boy” three times between the start of the video and the 0:05 timestamp. The speaker then yells the same phrase twice at the 0:06 timestamp and the 0:08 timestamp,” the Title IX charges said. In reality, the Title IX investigator said, “I cannot understand any audio that’s on it.”
The school system dropped the charges against the Muslim boy while pursuing them against the Christian boys. It sent the Muslim boy a letter stating that the investigation was closed because, even if the allegations were true, they would not constitute prohibited harassment. Then they alleged the same facts to the Christian boys and said they remained under investigation.
The charges against all three boys left out the “beat your ass” comment, seeming to acknowledge that there was no evidence for it while avoiding mention of it to inflate the girl’s credibility.
Charging documents stated that the boy who asked, “Why is there a girl in here?” also said, “Get out of here,” suggesting that he was ordering the girl to leave. This contradicts the school district’s transcript, which said “get out of here” came from a different speaker. “‘Get out of here’ was clearly said from a distance away from the Female Student…as a colloquial expression of disbelief, similar to saying “You’ve got to be joking,’” the lawsuit said. It said the recordings were made in a noisy, crowded locker room.
The school system seized the girl’s phone and “deleted a recording of yet another boy using the bathroom whom the Female Student had recorded, thus denying the Plaintiffs the opportunity to present potentially exonerating evidence,” the lawsuit said. A fourth recording went missing.
The school district dropped charges against the Muslim boy after a mosque official reached out to school board member Arben Istrefi, who said he was doing what he could to resolve the situation. On May 20, Newsweek reported that School Board Chair Melinda Mansfield said it was “untrue” that the boys were being subjected to the Title IX disciplinary process, even though it was true, the lawsuit said.
Loudoun County Public Schools officials leaked confidential information to a left-wing political action committee, Loudoun for All, that “raises and spends money for attack advertisements against school board candidates and members who disagree with the policies and decisions of LCPS’s Superintendent Aaron Spence and the school board chair, Melinda Mansfield,” the suit said.
That PAC put out a press release that represented that “24 staff and student witnesses” corroborated that the boys had been engaged in “relentless harassment over the course of a year” against the female student — a claim that was false, the lawsuit said.
Loudoun for All overlaps with a group that, The Daily Wire reported in 2021, rallied to dox, hack, and punish parents who questioned school policies.
The school system’s cover-up of the transgender rapist likely would have gone uncovered were it not for the county’s sheriff, a Republican. The sheriff is investigating the girl for recording in a locker room, though it is unclear how Loudoun County Public Schools’ apparent deletion of some of the evidence could affect that.
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