The legal team representing two Virginia high school students suspended for questioning a transgender classmate’s access to the boys’ locker room has filed an amended federal complaint, adding new factual claims and a conspiracy charge against Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS).
Attorneys from America First Legal and the Founding Freedoms Law Center submitted the revised filing Wednesday, alleging that LCPS engaged in a coordinated effort to retaliate against the boys and their families. The complaint accuses the district of inconsistencies and misconduct during its Title IX investigation, which concluded with the students’ 10-day suspensions for sexual harassment.
According to Ian Prior, senior counsel at America First Legal, “Loudoun County Public Schools’ Title IX investigation into our clients inexplicably relied on non-credible evidence, ignored credible witness testimony, failed to interview key witnesses, deleted potentially exonerating video evidence, and failed to disclose LCPS’s own admission that the allegations against our clients did not constitute sexual harassment.”
He added that the amended complaint now alleges the school board may have shared confidential information with a political action committee “for the purpose of further retaliating against our clients and their families.” If proven true, he said, the case would expose “a travesty of justice and a waste of taxpayer money.”
Earlier this year, LCPS launched a Title IX sexual harassment investigation after two male students were recorded by a transgender student—a biological female identifying as male—inside the boys’ locker room at Stone Bridge High School. The recording showed the boys expressing discomfort over a biological girl using their facility.
The families appealed the school’s decision but were denied, leading them to pursue federal action. In their amended filing, they allege LCPS conspired with a local political group, Loudoun For All, to spread “false and defamatory” information through press releases, social media posts, and other materials—some of which reportedly included confidential case details later cited in a local news article titled “Locker Room Lawsuit Against LCPS Involves Misinformation, Loudoun4All Says.”
The Loudoun For All release accused the boys’ parents of orchestrating “a coordinated campaign of disinformation” to stir political outrage before an election. It also claimed that 24 witnesses supported the allegations that the boys insulted the transgender student. The students’ lawyers, however, argue that no such corroboration exists and that the student’s statements were inconsistent.
The complaint further alleges that LCPS failed to disclose exonerating video evidence showing the transgender student laughing and saying “I got it” during the incident, while other recordings she took were allegedly deleted. Despite these discrepancies, Title IX investigators credited her testimony as more credible and found the boys guilty of harassment.
After the district denied their appeal, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights found LCPS had violated Title IX by discriminating against the boys on the basis of sex. The agency said the district “failed to meaningfully investigate complaints of sexual harassment by two male students concerning the presence of a member of the opposite sex in male-only intimate spaces yet thoroughly investigated the female student’s sexual harassment complaint about the boys.”
Parents of the students told Fox News Digital that their sons’ concerns about privacy were ignored by school officials. Following this, federal officials warned LCPS that failure to correct its actions could jeopardize federal funding. The Education Department later confirmed that funding for five Northern Virginia districts—including LCPS—would shift to a reimbursement-only model pending further review.
Victoria Cobb, president of the Founding Freedoms Law Center, stated, “The amended complaint we filed today unveils Loudoun County Public Schools’ sham targeting of these boys while it ignored numerous, credible threats to their privacy and safety. As alleged, a female student repeatedly filmed male students, including while using the bathroom, yet Loudoun did nothing.”
LCPS declined to comment on the latest allegations, citing its policy against discussing ongoing litigation.
