This piece looks at a newly amended federal complaint from the families of two high school boys who were disciplined after questioning a transgender classmate’s presence in the boys’ locker room. It walks through the added conspiracy allegation, claims of shoddy Title IX work by Loudoun County Public Schools, the involvement of a political action group, and the wider federal response over locker room policies. The article keeps to the legal claims and quoted statements made by the boys’ legal teams. Readers get the facts as alleged in court and the exact words used by the attorneys and advocates.
The parents enlisted America First Legal and the Founding Freedoms Law Center to press their federal case after the school district suspended the boys and labeled them sexual harassers. This week those legal teams filed an amended complaint that layers in new factual claims and a formal conspiracy charge against Loudoun County Public Schools. The filing accuses the district of retaliatory behavior and of mishandling the Title IX process from start to finish.
Ian Prior, Senior Counsel at America First Legal, described the investigation in blunt terms and highlighted procedural failures. “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,” said Ian Prior, Senior Counsel at America First Legal.
“Making matters worse, and as we set forth in the amended complaint, it appears that the school board was passing along confidential information to a political action committee for the purpose of further retaliating against our clients and their families. If proven true at trial, and we intend to do exactly that, this entire affair is a travesty of justice, a waste of taxpayer money to defend, and everything that is wrong with the Loudoun County School Board and its misplaced priorities.”
The district first opened a Title IX probe after a biological female student who identifies as transgender recorded parts of the locker room incident. The video picked up the two boys complaining about a biological girl identifying as a boy using their boys’ facilities, and that sequence set the administrative process in motion. What followed, according to the families, was an unfair and rushed investigation that harmed the students’ records and reputations.
The families appealed the district’s initial Title IX finding in hopes of stopping suspensions and keeping sexual harassment labels off permanent files, but the district denied their appeal. That denial pushed the parents to federal court, where they initially scored a preliminary injunction that barred the district from suspending the boys or placing Title IX findings on their records. The amended complaint says the district then reacted in ways that went beyond ordinary administrative review.
The new court filing alleges the district coordinated with a local political action committee, Loudoun For All, and shared confidential material that was later used in public messaging. Complaint documents point to press releases and timelines posted to social accounts and other outlets that the complaint claims contained false and privileged details. The families say those communications were aimed at shaping public outrage and punishing them politically rather than resolving facts.
The PAC’s messaging reportedly accused the parents of “orchestrat[ing] a coordinated campaign of disinformation, knowingly misrepresenting facts to fuel political outrage,” and claimed the goal was to “inflame voters ahead of an election.” The PAC also asserted that 24 witnesses corroborated that the boys called the student “girl,” “it,” “girl-boy,” and told them “get out” while inside the boy’s locker room. The families’ lawyers counter that witnesses never supported those specifics and that timing and details from the accusing student were inconsistent.
Victoria Cobb, President of the Founding Freedoms Law Center, framed the amended complaint as exposing a dangerous pattern of selective enforcement and misplaced priorities. “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,” said Victoria Cobb, President of the Founding Freedoms Law Center. “As alleged, a female student repeatedly filmed male students, including while using the bathroom, yet Loudoun did nothing. Instead, Loudoun appears to have conspired with an outside political organization to continue its attacks against these boys and their parents.”
The dispute has broader consequences. The Education Department under the prior administration identified Loudoun among several Northern Virginia districts it said were in violation of Title IX over bathroom and locker room policies. That determination moved federal funding for those districts to a reimbursement-only basis and began formal procedures that could lead to termination of certain federal funds. The families now ask the court to sort through the allegations and hold the district to account for how it handled the matter.
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