Parents criticize school board after boys are investigated for raising concerns about transgender student in locker room

Furious parents expressed their anger at a Virginia county school board meeting on Tuesday. This was after reports emerged of three male students being investigated. They were recorded in a male locker room expressing their discomfort about a biological female changing alongside them.

Loudoun County Public Schools, which gained national attention in 2021, is conducting an investigation into the boys for potential Title IX violations. The incident comes after a father was famously removed from a board meeting last year. This happened when he voiced concerns about his daughter being sexually assaulted by a transgender student at a local school.

The transgender boy, who is biologically female, recorded the boys as they questioned the presence of a girl in the locker room. One of the students mentioned feeling uneasy about the situation.

Tensions flared at a school board meeting Tuesday over a policy that allows trans people to use the locker room that fits their gender. Boys who were recorded complaining are now under investigation. (Fox 5)

Transgender people exist. They always have no executive order, sermon or headline or public comment can erase them,” she said. 

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has requested the state’s attorney general launch an independent investigation into how LCPS has managed the situation, (Kendall Warner/The Virginian-Pilot/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

“We cannot, in good faith, debate policies impacting students if we deny the existence of those very students. That’s not discourse. That’s dehumanization. We have seen this playbook before, fear mongering, misinformation and political theater all at the expense of vulnerable children. It’s happening again, just as it did four years ago.

Meanwhile, Youngkin has requested the state’s attorney general launch an independent investigation into how LCPS has managed the situation, according to Fox 5.

The controversy in Loudoun County came the day after parents and residents clashed at a school board meeting in the Chicago area on Monday after a trans junior high school student won multiple events at a local track meet.