The Biden administration has opened a Title IX investigation into a Madison, Wisconsin-area school district months after four freshman girls told authorities that a transgender-identified 18-year-old male student showered in front of them, exposing his genitals, in a high school locker room.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) last week confirmed it has launched a probe into the Sun Prairie Area School District’s (SPASD) activities in response to a federal complaint filed nearly six months ago.
OCR says it will remain neutral as its agents “collect and analyze the evidence it needs in order to make a decision” on whether the school district “responded to a report of sexual harassment consistent with the requirements of Title IX.” Title IX prohibits discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance.
A Sun Prairie schools official said the district will fully cooperate with OCR’s investigation.
‘I’m Trans, by the Way’
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL), a Milwaukee-based civil rights law firm, filed the Title IX complaint in June on behalf of parents of the freshman girls.
As previously reported, the purported incident occurred on March 3 when the unidentified 18-year-old male student, who claims to be a woman, allegedly showered unclothed in a high school locker room in the presence of four female freshmen students.
According to WILL’s letter to the district’s board of education, the freshman girls were participating in a swimming class at Sun Prairie’s East High School. They entered the girls’
