The US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR)has found 5 northern Viginia school districts have violated U.S. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The 5 counties are Alexandria City Public Schools, Arlington Public Schools, Fairfax County Public Schools, Loudoun County Public Schools, and Prince William County Public Schools. The 5 counties allow men/boys to use women’s restrooms and locker rooms.
“Although this type of behavior was tolerated by the previous Administration, it’s time for Northern Virginia’s experiment with radical gender ideology and unlawful discrimination to come to an end. OCR’s investigation definitively shows that these five Virginia school districts have been trampling on the rights of students in the service of an extreme political ideology,” said Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor. “The Trump Administration will not sacrifice the safety, dignity, and innocence of America’s young women and girls at the altar of an anti-scientific illiberalism.”
The OCR has granted the school districts 10 days to voluntarily comply or the matter will be turned over to the Justice Department:
“The Department of Education’s proposed Resolution Agreement requires the Divisions to take the following actions:
(i) Rescind the policies and/or regulations that allow students to access intimate facilities based on their “gender identity” rather than their sex;
(ii) Issue a memorandum to each Division school explaining that any future policies related to access to intimate facilities must be consistent with Title IX by separating students strictly on the basis of sex, and that Title IX ensures women’s equal opportunity in any education program or activity including athletic programs; and
(iii) Adopt biology-based definitions of the words “male” and “female” in all practices and policies relating to Title IX.”
More here from the Department of Education.
Governor Youngkin address the violations here.
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Everyone sleep with one eye open tonight – Dahud Hanid Ortiz is on the loose thanks to Trump.
Dahud Hanid Ortiz, who stabbed three people to death in 2016, was one of ten people released from prison in Venezuela AT THE REQUEST OF THE TRUMP GOVERNMENT and returned to the US. His current whereabouts are unknown.
One of the 10 Americans released from Venezuela in a prisoner swap last week was convicted of killing three people in Spain and was serving a 30-year sentence in a Venezuelan prison before his release, Spanish and Venezuelan officials told ABC News.
Dahud Hanid Ortiz, 54, was convicted in Venezuela of killing three people in a Madrid law office in 2016, according to the Spanish Interior Ministry and the Venezuelan vice president’s office.
Spanish authorities said Ortiz stabbed to death two female employees and a client of the law firm in June 2016. Authorities said Ortiz was looking for the lawyer who ran the office, who was away at the time.
The Venezuelan government opted to try Ortiz, an American-Venezuelan dual national, in Venezuela rather than fulfill an extradition request form Spain because Venezuela’s constitution prohibits the extradition of Venezuelan-born citizens.
Speaking on Venezuelan TV on Thursday, Venezuela’s Justice Minister Diosdado Cabello said U.S. officials were told about Ortiz’s conviction but said they still wanted him released.
The U.S. was aware of Ortiz’ past but made the decision to bring him out in the swap anyway, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter.
Ortiz served in the U.S. Army for about 17 years as an enlisted soldier, starting in 1995, and then served more than four years as an officer, an Army spokesperson said. He deployed to Kuwait and Iraq and left the Army in October 2015, nine months before the murders were committed.
A defense official said Ortiz was court-martialed “and dismissed from the Army” in 2015.
Upon his return to the US with a group of ten, Ortiz was released and the US government is not aware of his current whereabouts.
Normal parents do not want men and boys going into girls’ toilets and showers. It shows disrespect for the girls and is negative behavior for the boys. And where are the principals and teachers on this?
When I was growing up, a long time ago, boys in K-12 school who even lingered outside the girls’ toilets would be in big trouble.
These five counties have been put on notice and have 10 days to get squared away. Those in charge are all adults and know what they are doing. If they continue to break the law, then law enforcement is one mandated function of our elected representatives & those who are hired to run our schools.