President Donald Trump’s Department of Education announced the opening of an investigation into a Colorado high school Tuesday for reportedly turning a women’s bathroom into an “all-gender” facility.
East High School in the Denver Public Schools District now has a men’s restroom and an all-gender restroom but no female-only space on the second-level of the building, the education department said in its announcement of the investigation, alleging that the school may have violated students’ constitutional rights. The department cited the Title IX rule, which mandates that institutions receiving federal funds provide similar facilities to both sexes.
“The alarming report that the Denver Public Schools District denied female students a restroom comparable with their male counterparts appears to directly violate the civil rights of the District’s female students,” Craig Trainor, acting assistant secretary for Civil Rights, said in a statement. “Let me be clear: it is a new day in America, and under President Trump, OCR will not tolerate discrimination of any kind. I have directed OCR’s Denver regional office to investigate this matter fully.”
Other schools in the district have also reportedly instituted multi-stall “all gender” restrooms, according to a letter the education department sent to the district notifying it of the investigation.
“[The] Administration has sacrificed the comfort of these young females for this dubious change by now limiting their options,” one parent of an East High School student told the district’s school board, which the Education Department cites in its letter to the district. “We, as adults, should be protecting students at all costs. Not using minors for this social experiment. This in my opinion is unlawful, immoral and is, in fact, a form of abuse.”
A day-one executive order signed by President Donald Trump declared the federal government will not only recognize two sexes. The order has since been challenged by a male prison inmate who is no longer allowed to be held in a women’s facility.
Denver Public Schools did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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