(The Center Square) – An education advocacy group has filed a federal Title IX civil rights complaint with The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights over access to gender-specific restrooms on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The complaint says that policy allows for male students to access female restrooms if they choose and tells female students to instead use a limited number of single-occupancy restrooms if they are not comfortable with it.
The lawsuit from Defending Education says that the policy in question states “students, staff, faculty, and visitors have the right to use the restroom, locker room, shower, or changing facility most safe and comfortable for them, without being harassed or questioned, regardless of gender expression or sex assigned at birth.”
Defending Education says that it is an organization that aims to protect students “from activists imposing harmful agendas.”
“While many female students feel unsafe or uncomfortable sharing restrooms with students of the opposite sex, UW-Madison guidance explicitly dismisses these students’ concerns,” the complaint states.
Attempts by The Center Square to reach UW-Madison for comment were unsuccessful.
