(The Center Square) – Cabarrus County Schools in North Carolina is under federal investigation, accused of Title IX violations involving a boy watching girls change clothes in locker rooms.
Kim Richey, assistant secretary for Civil Rights, said, “Today’s investigation demonstrates that the Trump administration will not stop pursuing districts that reportedly subject our women and girls to egregious violations of their privacy and safety. Under the Trump administration, no woman or girl will have to fight alone to secure her basic protections, and we will not relent until Title IX is restored to the fullest extent of the law.”
Richey was the recipient of a May 7 letter from a freshman North Carolina congressman.
“I’m calling on the Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education to directly address reports coming out of Cox Mill High School,” said U.S. Rep. Addison McDowell, R-N.C. “Girls should not have to share locker rooms or bathrooms with biological males. It’s against the law!”
Multiple reports say a boy, identifying as a girl, has watched girls change clothes in locker rooms in the Cabarrus County Schools. Students requested a probe of Title IX violations that, they say, were dismissed by the former Cox Mill High School principal, Chris Myeters.
President Richard Nixon signed Title IX into law on June 23, 1972. Title IX says, “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.”
The Education Department in the Biden administration attempted to change those 37 words with 1,561 pages of rewrite. The changes opened the doors of formerly protected spaces for women to men, though some have since been closed by legislative acts.
The fight to protect women’s spaces remains fierce.
