The MAGA attorney general of this state, Jason Miyares, said Monday that the Loudoun County school system is “weaponizing” Title IX.
Somebody is weaponizing Title IX.
That somebody: Jason Miyares, the MAGA attorney general.
Miyares, who is running for re-election in the fall – good luck with that – announced today that his office’s investigation into a bathroom situation in Loudoun County revealed “significant concerns regarding potential violations of Title IX, unlawful retaliation, and viewpoint discrimination.”
The case, such as it is, involves three teens who complained about a trans student using the boys’ locker room at school.
One of the parents of the kids involved reached out to a DC TV station to point out that the school system’s policy is not in line with President Trump’s Executive Order to protect single-sex spaces and recognize two sexes, and, here we go.
“The investigation reveals a disturbing misuse of authority by Loudoun County Public Schools, where students appear to have been targeted not for misconduct, but for expressing their discomfort for being forced to share a locker room with a member of the opposite sex,” Miyares grandstanded, er, you know, said, in a statement released on Monday.
“Title IX was never meant to be used as a weapon against free speech or religious convictions,” Miyares went on. “Every student in Virginia deserves the right to speak openly, think freely, and live according to their conscience without fear of retaliation. Protecting those rights is not political — it’s foundational to who we are as Americans.”
The part there about “religious convictions” being a part of this story tells you what this is about.
The press release from the Miyares folks framed the review of the complaints from the teens about the trans kid as a “retaliatory Title IX investigation” into “sincere religious objections,” and makes the claim that “rather than safeguarding the constitutional rights of all students, LCPS appears to be punishing those who hold and express faith-based views.”
What’s going on here is, Jason Miyares is picking sides in a fight, and using something going on that is none of his business to score political points.
To that end, his presser tells us that his office “has referred this matter, Loudoun County Public Schools, and the Loudoun County School Board, to the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights and the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division for further investigation and appropriate action.”
He done told on them to Trump, y’all, is what is going on here.
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