Federal Investigations Launched Into Title IX Complaints Over Transgender Student Policies in Schools

The U.S. Department of Education is examining allegations from parents in Wisconsin and Illinois regarding privacy violations and unequal treatment of female students in locker rooms.

• The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights has opened investigations into Illinois schools following allegations of Title IX violations involving transgender student policies.
• In Wisconsin, parents have filed a Title IX complaint claiming their daughters faced academic penalties for avoiding a transgender student in the girls' locker room.
• The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty alleges that Westosha Central High School failed to address privacy concerns raised by female students and their parents.
• An Illinois mother has also filed a civil rights complaint, claiming her daughter was forced to change in front of a transgender student at a middle school in Deerfield Public Schools District 109.
• Both school districts maintain that their policies align with state laws and emphasize that students have options for privacy in locker rooms.

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