Loudoun County School Board meeting debates bathroom-related issues

https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2025/05/loudoun-county-school-board-
meeting-debates-bathroom-related-issues/

During a sometimes contentious, more than three-hour Loudoun County School 
Board meeting Tuesday night, dozens of people spoke out about an 
investigation that’s underway by the Virginia Office of the Attorney 
General.

The case involves a report that three high school boys were 
“uncomfortable” when a biologically female student, who identifies as 
male, changed clothes in a boy’s locker room and recorded their discussion 
about it.

Specifics about the incident have not been released, but it reportedly 
took place at Stone Bridge High School.

On May 6, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced that he had asked Attorney General 
Jason Miyares to investigate the case to ensure the school division is 
upholding every student’s privacy, dignity and safety.

But besides debating this latest high-profile case, the meeting on two 
occasions became heated, and the board chair had to briefly stop the 
proceedings when the board believed the session was becoming unruly.

“No rude gestures, no applause, no heckling,” the audience was told after 
the meeting was stopped when crowd members began applauding and some threw 
verbal jabs at each other.

Many at the meeting said they were there to show their support for the 
three boys, but also to call for the repeal of the school board’s Policy 
8040, which allows students to use bathrooms and locker rooms based on 
their gender identity.

When he began the investigation, Miyares weighed in saying the case “is 
just the latest example of what happens when school boards disregard 
common sense. The safety, dignity and privacy of every student in Virginia 
should be nonnegotiable. This is about safety and privacy, not political 
correctness — and it’s time Loudoun County recognized it.”

“Brave boys that I don’t even know are being investigated because you have 
created policies that allow girls to go into boy’s bathrooms and locker 
rooms,” said one woman who spoke before the board. “You sacrificed the 
safety and well-being of students in favor of a hand full of gender 
confused people who wish to become something they are not.”

But another woman said transgender people and others deserve legal 
protection and rights.

“I don’t care if its less than a half a percent of students that are 
transgender. They still have rights,” she said.

That woman and others in support of the policy disagreed and said the 
issue is creating a media and community frenzy, driven by political 
activists who want to see 8040 repealed.

Ultimately, besides listening to the public, the board took no action.

As reported by the Virginia Mercury, Loudoun County’s school policy allows 
students to use bathrooms and locker rooms based on their gender 
identification instead of their biological sex. But Seth Wolfe, the parent 
of one of the three boys, said his 15-year-old son is being “unfairly 
targeted for simply asking a basic question that any boy would be asking 
in that situation.”

“It’s astonishing that Loudoun school officials are subjecting him to a 
formal investigation for a bogus charge that could derail his life,” Wolfe 
said in a statement released by the Founding Freedoms Law Center, which is 
representing the student.

In a 7News report Tuesday, Wolfe criticized LCPS for investigating his son 
and the other students for expressing their discomfort with the male-
identifying student being in the boys’ locker room and said the division’s 
bathroom policy creates an “unsafe environment” for all students. An 
attorney with the law center confirmed with the Mercury that Wolfe was the 
unidentified parent in WJLA’s report.

The division added that the report by 7News contains “false” and 
“misleading” information. The school system said it would not discuss the 
specifics of the incident in recognition of students’ privacy but defended 
its policies and commitment to student safety.

“We reject any characterization that implies our schools are unsafe or 
that we fail to protect the rights of all students,” the school division 
stated. “We remain steadfast in our legal and ethical obligation to uphold 
the rights of every student and will continue to create and nurture an 
environment that is welcoming and accepting for all students, so that 
everyone has the opportunity to learn, grow and succeed.”

In 2023, Loudoun County Public Schools announced it was launching a pilot 
program to support students and staff concerning restroom privacy and 
safety. The goal was to increase accessibility and allow students a choice 
to use the multifixture, gender-specific restrooms or single-occupancy 
restrooms in all LCPS facilities, the division said.

Stone Bridge High School, which Wolfe’s son and the other students attend 
and where the locker room recording occurred, was not part of the pilot 
program.

This situation is not the first time Loudoun schools have made headlines 
for an incident in school bathrooms. In 2021 the school division faced 
criticism and later a $30 million lawsuit over how it responded after a 
teenage male student was found guilty of assaulting two female students at 
two different schools over six months.

To align Virginia school divisions with the governor’s sustained advocacy 
for parents’ rights, the governor’s administration overhauled the state’s 
model policies for the treatment of transgender students in 2023.

Some of the key changes included requiring students to use the locker room 
corresponding to their sex, unless federal laws state otherwise, requiring 
schools to notify parents if a student is permitted to use a locker room 
that differs from their biological sex, and allowing parents to opt their 
child out and use alternative facilities.


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