(National Review)—After Illinois mom Nicole Georgas blew the whistle on Deerfield School District 109′s “inclusive bathroom” policies that allowed a male in her 13-year-old daughter’s middle-school locker room, the Illinois Board of Education and Chicago Public Schools have been hit with a federal civil rights complaint.
Filed this week by the Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies and the Liberty Justice Center, the complaint asks the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights to “ensure that ISBE and CPS comply with Title IX at the risk of loss of federal funds, as well as provide other appropriate relief”:
Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex — not “gender identity” — in federally funded education programs and activities. ISBE and CPS are in violation of Title IX because these entities, by forcing students to share intimate facilities with members of the opposite sex as a condition of participation in their education programs and activities, prioritize “gender identity” over sex. Simply put, the “gender identity” policies of ISBE and CPS effectively erase “sex” from Title IX.
Deerfield School District has not responded to National Review‘s multiple requests for comment. The district did, however, say in a statement that it “mandates that students must be permitted access to the locker room and bathroom that aligns with their gender identity,” but ensures that “no student is required to change into a gym uniform for physical education class in front of others.” The district seems to think allowing girls a “private” changing space, if they are uncomfortable with the presence of a male in their space, is a sound policy.
The district was thrown into the spotlight after Georgas begged the Board of Education at a meeting to designate bathrooms and locker rooms sex-specific. Dozens of progressive trans activists booed Georgas at the meeting.