The Department of Education, under the Trump administration, launched an investigation into a Colorado high school that transformed a women’s bathroom into one for “all genders.”
The high school now has a men’s bathroom and an “all-gender” facility. There is no designated bathroom for women.
Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor called the report on the restrooms “alarming,” stating that the move “appears to directly violate the civil rights of the District’s female students.”
“Let me be clear: it is a new day in America, and under President Trump, [Office for Civil Rights] OCR will not tolerate discrimination of any kind. I have directed OCR’s Denver regional office to investigate this matter fully,” Trainor said.
Trainor sent a letter to Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero over the matter. He explained that the investigation from the OCR would “examine whether the District discriminates against students on the basis of sex by installing multi-stall all gender restrooms in District school facilities, in violation of Title IX and its implementing regulations.”
President Donald Trump signed an executive order highlighting the biological reality of the two sexes during the first day of his second term.
“Efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being. The erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive impact not just on women but on the validity of the entire American system,” the order says, adding, “Invalidating the true and biological category of ‘woman’ improperly transforms laws and policies designed to protect sex-based opportunities into laws and policies that undermine them, replacing longstanding, cherished legal rights and values with an identity-based, inchoate social concept.”
