Department of Education cracks down on Oregon, Virginia over Title IX

The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on Friday announced it has completed an investigation into five Virginia schools over alleged Title IX violations and opened an investigation into Oregon's Department of Education.  

The investigations come after President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February intended to "protect opportunities for women and girls to compete in safe and fair sports." The Trump administration has also cracked down on other alleged Title IX violations that it says discriminate against biological female athletes on the basis of sex.

The Education Department found the five Virginia schools did violate Title IX by allowing students access to "intimate, sex-segregated facilities" based on the students' gender identity instead of their biological sex.

“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," Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor said in a statement. 

"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," he continued. "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 five schools were identified as Alexandria City Public Schools, Arlington Public Schools, Fairfax County Public Schools, Loudoun County Public Schools and Prince William County Public Schools.

The department also opened an investigation into the Oregon Department of Education over allegations it is still allowing students who identify as female, but were born male, to compete against biological women.

“In the last six months, the Trump Administration has made historic strides in cleaning up the countless failures of the Biden Administration, including the prior Administration’s dedication to gender ideology extremism," Trainor said. "Oregon appears to have missed the message: The Trump Administration will not allow educational institutions that receive federal funds to continue trampling upon women’s rights."

Trainor claimed that if the state is allowing biological men to compete against women, then the male athletes are stealing "accolades and opportunities that female competitors have rightfully earned through hard work and grit, while callously disregarding women’s and girls’ safety, dignity, and privacy."

The moves come the same week the United States Olympics and Paralympic Committee changed its eligibility rules to ban transgender athletes from competing against biological women.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.