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Every now and then, Washington surprises you with an act of pure, unfiltered common sense. You almost want to cheer. Then you remember the reason for the celebration is that a school district needed to be sued for doing something so absurd you couldn’t make it up.
Welcome to Loudoun County. Yes, again.
The Department of Justice confirmed on Monday that they sued the Loudoun County School Board for allowing a biologically female student into the boys’ locker room, then punishing the boys who dared to say, “Uh, this seems wrong.” You know, the kind of ordinary, instinctive response any functioning adult would expect from a teenage boy suddenly forced to change clothes next to a female student.
And the boys got punished. This is where we are as a country.
According to the DOJ, the board’s policy pushed gender ideology as a mandatory belief system and steamrolled students who couldn’t, in good conscience, deny biological reality. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon put it plainly: “Students do not shed their First Amendment rights at the schoolhouse gate.” That’s a line that used to be basic civics. Now it sounds almost rebellious.
Let’s pause here. A school district in America punished children for being uncomfortable undressing next to a member of the opposite sex. And it took federal intervention for someone to say, “You know what, maybe don’t do that.”
This is not progress. This is a society begging to relearn kindergarten-level truths.
Loudoun County doubled down in August, proudly voting to maintain the same policy despite a federal directive warning them that they were violating the rights of male students. The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights later confirmed that yes, the district discriminated against boys. They ignored complaints from two male students but thoroughly investigated the female student’s accusations against the boys. So equal protection apparently only applies in one direction.
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You don’t get justice when the rules bend for ideology. You get chaos. And Loudoun County has become a masterclass in how quickly a school system can lose its grip on reality when it tries to appease activists rather than protect kids.
To his credit, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin finally had enough. He asked Attorney General Jason Miyares to look into the district’s behavior, and Miyares found what we all suspected: Students and parents who spoke out against the policy were punished. Imagine the arrogance it takes to force boys to share a locker room with a girl, then discipline them for objecting. And yet, here we are celebrating that the DOJ finally intervened. Not because the boys shouldn’t have needed defending in the first place, but because someone in government actually remembered that the Constitution exists.
And here’s the part that should keep every parent up at night. Loudoun only got a lifeline because Virginia has a governor who actually pays attention. But what about the countless school districts across deep-blue states where no one in power is willing to push back? Those parents don’t get a Glenn Youngkin. Their kids don’t get state leaders who will call out nonsense or demand accountability. They’re stuck under school boards that treat ideology as gospel and dissent as a crime. If this is what happens with a watchdog, imagine what’s happening in places where the watchdogs retired years ago and the activists run the kennel.
The Trump administration has taken a harder stance nationwide, cracking down on schools pushing gender ideology and restoring clear boundaries that protect kids. These are not radical steps. These are yesterday’s norms, revived because today’s institutions have drifted so far into fantasy that they need a legal slap back to reality. Here’s the frustrating part. We shouldn’t need lawsuits to establish that boys shouldn’t be punished for acknowledging biological truth. We shouldn’t need executive orders to keep schools from forcing ideology onto children. We shouldn’t need governors to intervene just to tell grown adults that locker rooms exist for a reason.
We shouldn’t need any of this.
But until common sense becomes common again, this is where we are. Celebrating the victories, while mourning the fact that they were even necessary.
Maybe one day we’ll get back to a country where up is up, boys are boys, and locker rooms don’t require legal teams. Until then, thank God someone’s willing to fight.
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