A female student identifying as a male reportedly began frequenting the boys' locker room at Loudoun County Public Schools' Stone Bridge High School over the past year. She was able to do so because of Policy 8040.

This policy — which was approved by the school board a few months after a male student wearing a skirt raped a female student in a Stone Bridge High girls' restroom — requires schools to allow students to "use the facility that corresponds to their consistently asserted gender identity."

'It should terrify every single parent.'

Following a gym class at Stone Bridge High in March, the girl pretending to be a boy once again took advantage of the policy but this time videotaped three boys in the locker room who were discussing their discomfort over her presence.

While taking videos or photographs in the locker room is a violation of district policy, LCPS apparently was more interested in making an example out of two of the boys over their discomfort with the gender policy.

The district launched a Title IX investigation into two of the boys, a Christian student and a Muslim student, for supposed sexual harassment.

WJLA-TV reported this week that LCPS has concluded its investigation and decided to turn the boys' lives upside down.

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Josh Hetzler, an attorney who represents the boys' families, told WJLA that LCPS' Title IX Office determined that the two boys are responsible for sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination.

For daring to express discomfort with an interloper in a place that the Trump administration has made clear must be sex-segregated, the boys were notified that they will also be suspended for 10 days and slapped with a no-contact order with the cross-dressing girl.

Hetzler indicated that the boys are also required to develop a "corrective action plan" with school administrators.

For filming the boys in the boys' locker room, the girl will reportedly receive only a brief in-school suspension.

'What they're doing to our children is just despicable.'

When pressed for comment, an LCPS spokesperson told Blaze News, "It is the general practice of LCPS not to publicly discuss private student matters. I can state that the division has a comprehensive and objective process for Title IX investigations."

LCPS Superintendent Aaron Spence did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment by deadline.

"I would say the first reaction was some anger, because we're just really concerned with all this stuff," Seth Wolfe, one of the parents, told WJLA. "[We're] saddened by the decision-making process and how that went."

Renae Smith, another parent, said, "[We're] absolutely floored that they came back and branded my son responsible for sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination with no solid evidence whatsoever."

"We're talking about scarring him for life by a biased process that's supposed to protect fairness, but it's shocking. It's wrong, and it should terrify every single parent," added Smith.

Smith has reportedly pulled her son out of the woke district and left Virginia.

Both parents suspect that LCPS made examples of their boys to get everyone else in line.

"They're going to have to follow what Loudoun County says, what they believe is right, and what goes against other people's beliefs or what we believe is right," said Wolfe.

Smith noted, "What they're doing to our children is just despicable."

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LCPS wasn't the only organization investigating potential Title IX violations.

The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights determined last month that LCPS violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 by maintaining the gender policy. LCPS was given until Aug. 15 to change it.

'The investigation reveals a disturbing misuse of authority by Loudoun County Public Schools.'

"Although this type of behavior was tolerated by the previous administration, it’s time for Northern Virginia’s experiment with radical gender ideology and unlawful discrimination to come to an end," said acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor.

Last week, the school board voted 6-3 to defy the federal government and to keep Policy 8040 in effect.

This defiance is par for the course. Superintendent Spence notified the Trump administration in March that that LCPS would not submit a certification affirming that the district follows federal anti-discrimination law and regulations prohibiting discrimination based on race.

At Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin's request, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares investigated the district's treatment of the boys.

"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 said in a June statement.

Miyares referred the matter to the U.S. Department of Education and the Department of Justice.

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Anti-American ideology still festers at West Point

Diversity, equity, and inclusion employees are still running amok in the hallowed halls of the United States Military Academy at West Point. President Trump and members of his administration have taken the first steps toward eliminating DEI in the military, but there won’t be lasting change until all traces of it are removed from our military’s oldest academy.

In 2024, Congress and watchdog groups started asking why cadets were being taught DEI and critical race theory ideology in West Point classrooms. Over the next several months, West Point was embroiled in controversy as the academy faced a barrage of congressional hearings, lawsuits, and Freedom of Information Act requests. But the school was able to successfully shield many of its woke policies through disingenuous public relations tactics.

As long as these officials remain in charge, any claims of returning to a pre-DEI, mission-focused ethos ring hollow.

More than six months into the new administration, it is clear that West Point’s “compliance” with President Trump’s “Restoring America’s Fighting Force” executive order and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s anti-DEI memo is merely perfunctory — and even deceptive. Their orders are being undermined by the continued presence of woke employees who continue to prop up a leftist regime that has embedded itself at West Point.

DEI by any other name

Dr. Morten Ender is a full professor of sociology at West Point whose work confirms his allegiance to DEI dogma. Before Congress became wary of DEI in the military, Ender worked as the co-chair of USMA’s Diversity and Inclusion Studies Minor. He was the point of contact for classes such as "Deconstructing Patriotism" and "The Evolution of Cross-dressing in the Military."

Ender also taught classes such as "Deviance and Social Control" and "Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity.” His work has included publications including “Dinner and Conversation: Transgender Integration at West Point and Beyond” and books like “Inclusion in the American Military: A Force for Diversity.” It’s absurd to believe that a person who so vigorously embraced the politicization of the military would simply give up that crusade in a new role, with a new title.

Since Congress took a harder line on DEI in the military, the DEI minor’s website has disappeared, and Ender’s bio has been cleaned up, removing any trace of his association with DEI. Originally, West Point’s site listed his many accomplishments, including his pro-DEI articles and woke classes.

West Point may try to cover up its history, but it will not fool us.

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The continued employment of Lisa Benitez, another woke professor, is also puzzling in light of Hegseth’s clear directive to stop the inculcation of toxic ideologies like DEI and CRT in the military. The former chief diversity officer of West Point’s Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equal Opportunity, Benitez’s role has taken several new forms since 2024. In June of last year, she was given the title of Chief Engagement and Retention Officer and then became Equal Employment Manager only a few months later.

While Benitez no longer has an official presence on the academy’s website, her LinkedIn profile still lists her as a West Point employee, and her phone number matches that of the equal employment manager role.

Benitez organized the annual West Point Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Conference. This conference had been a bastion of woke ideology in our nation’s premier military academy, hosting talks on “The Evolution of Diversity” and “Corporate Diversity.” The name of the conference changed in January to “The Iris and Herman Bulls ’78 Family Legacy of Graduates and Leaders Forum” and was eventually canceled due to controversy. It’s clear, however, that the radical ideology it once openly promoted remains.

Col. Archie Bates III, the deputy director of West Point’s Behavioral Science and Leadership Department, attended one of those conferences. In addition to doing academic work on preferential college admissions, he touts himself as a skilled promoter of DEI and lists his many woke accomplishments. He also co-authored the military’s DEI policy, which authorized women for combat arms in 2011. Bates is currently the academy’s acting department head of Behavior Sciences and Leadership.

Another member of the DEI faculty still in place at West Point is Maj. Catherine Grizzle, who is currently an instructor for the Behavioral Science and Leadership Department.

Grizzle came up through the ranks when woke leadership was being openly promoted and praised. She has long been a poster child for DEI, becoming only the third female field artillery Basic Officer Leader Course gunnery instructor. Her LinkedIn profile showcases her full commitment to DEI, and she is the only West Point faculty member to have DEI listed as one of her research interests.

Fortunately, at least one faculty member who teaches DEI is leaving voluntarily. USMA history professor Anthony Guerrero, who has been at West Point for over two years, is resigning in protest due to President Trump’s crackdown on DEI.

In a New York Times op-ed, Guerrero called Trump’s executive order on military excellence and readiness a “legal command that provides cover for bigotry. It delivers hate in the guise of a national security issue, dressed up in medicalized language.” Not only is Guerrero defending transgender ideology, but he is also contradicting a direct order to keep his concerns private.

Ideology runs deep

West Point’s DEI leadership — including figures like Ender, Bates, Grizzle, Benitez, and Guerrero — represents just a fraction of DEI’s ideological entrenchment there. Despite recent efforts to present a façade of reform, West Point remains captive to the same people who have been championing divisive policies on race and sex for years.

As long as these officials remain in charge, any claims of returning to a pre-DEI, mission-focused ethos ring hollow. The result is an officer corps trained in ideological conformity rather than the lethality, leadership, and war fighting excellence our national defense demands.

While the Trump administration has taken commendable steps to roll back DEI in the military, those efforts cannot succeed if the very officials who created these policies remain in positions of influence. Lasting reform requires not just policy change but also serious personnel change.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published at the American Mind.

Democrats' meltdown over SCOTUS child sex-change ruling reveals they learned nothing about 2024 blowout

A Marquette Law School poll published late last month revealed that 63% of Americans hold an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party. Polling by the Economist and YouGov indicated that the disapproval rating for the party as a whole was 58.3% as of May 25.

Democratic lawmakers evidenced their commitment to driving up these numbers and alienating the majority of normal Americans with their hysterical response to the U.S. Supreme Court's Wednesday 6-3 ruling in United States v. Skrmetti, which upheld Tennessee's ban on sex-change genital mutilations and sterilizing puberty blockers for minors.

Not only is Tennessee's Senate Bill 1 lawful, as confirmed by the high court, but such laws reflect the sensibilities of the vast majority of Americans.

A Washington Post-KFF poll found in 2023 that 57% of Americans say gender is biologically determined; 68% oppose the use of puberty blockers by children; and 58% oppose hormonal treatments for teens.

Polling conducted ahead of the 2024 election by NORC at the University of Chicago for the Los Angeles Times found that 54% of Americans favor laws to prevent minors from receiving sex-change drugs or surgeries.

A Center Square Voter's Choice Poll revealed last month that only 29% of voters think doctors should be allowed to prescribe puberty blockers to kids with parental consent. Forty-seven percent of respondents said puberty blockers should not be prescribed to minors under any circumstances.

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Democrats appear to be fully aware of the American public's majoritive revulsion over the mutilation and sterilization of confused children.

In the immediate aftermath of the 2024 election and just prior to stepping down as Texas Democratic Party chairman, Gilberto Hinojosa emphasized to Democrats that their messaging was not resonating with everyday Americans.

'Hate won.'

"You have a choice as a party," said Hinojosa. "You can support transgender rights up and down all the categories where the issue comes up, or you can understand that there's certain things that we just go too far on, that a big bulk of our population does not support."

An American Principles Project poll looking at the impact of campaign ads on various transvestite-related issues in the 2024 election found that 52% of voters who were made aware of failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris' support for sex changes for minors were more likely to vote for President Donald Trump.

APP president Terry Schilling concluded, "There should be no question now that Democrats' gender insanity is a massive political vulnerability for them that Republicans should continue to exploit."

Schilling then urged Republicans "not to forget the main lesson from the election and to keep the pressure on Democrats for as long as they continue to defend their extreme agenda."

Despite the unpopularity of gender ideology, the collapse of its core narratives, and the growing list of victims now speaking out about their mutilation, Democrats are leaning into their support for gender ideology, particularly for child sex-change mutilations.

"Hate won," complained Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), one of the Democrats who begged the Supreme Court in an amicus brief last year to strike the Tennessee law. "The far-right justices of the Supreme Court endorsed hate and discrimination by delivering a win for Republicans who have relentlessly and cruelly attacked transgender Americans for years."

'The fight isn't over.'

Other Democrats followed a similar script.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), whose approval rating according to a recent Harvard-Harris poll was 26%, said in response to the high court's ruling in Skrmetti, "Republicans' cruel crusade against trans kids is all an attempt to divert attention from ripping healthcare away from millions of Americans. We'll keep fighting and we'll keep marching on."

"Today the Supreme Court chose to cast transgender children in the shadows, deciding they are not entitled to the protections of the Equal Protection Clause," wrote Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.). "By upholding Tennessee's ban on medical care for transgender children the Court has legitimized discriminatory treatment of children."

Booker suggested further that the protection of children in over 24 states from irreversible sex-change procedures is not only a "violation of the constitutional protections every child is entitled to" but puts kids "in danger."

Rep. Sarah McBride (Del.), the cross-dressing Democrat formerly known as Tim McBride, claimed that the ruling in Skrmetti "undermines doctors in delivering care to some of the most vulnerable patients in our country."

"As the proud grandma of a young trans man, I know that gender-affirming care can help trans youth live openly and authentically," wrote Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.). "The fight isn't over."

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Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, one of the Democratic lawmakers who has received a fortune in donations from the pharmaceutical industry, stated, "Trans kids suffer when they don't get medically-necessary care. This is a brazen political decision by the Supreme Court."

Contrary to Warren's suggestion, so-called "gender-affirming care" does not ameliorate confused kids' suffering. Rather, it makes matters a whole lot worse.

'Protecting children from making permanent, life-altering decisions about their bodies should be a bipartisan issue.'

Britain's National Health Service in 2020 appointed Dr. Hilary Cass, a British medical doctor who previously served as president of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, to lead an independent investigation into the efficacy of sex-change procedures on minors.

Blaze News previously reported that Cass' 388-page multi-year report revealed that:

the "systematic review showed no clear evidence that social transition in childhood has any positive or negative mental health outcomes, and relatively weak evidence for any effect in adolescence";
puberty blockers compromise bone density and have no apparent impact on "gender dysphoria or body satisfaction";
there is "insufficient and/or inconsistent evidence about the effects of puberty suppression on gender dysphoria, mental and psychosocial health, cognitive development, cardio-metabolic risk, and fertility";
there is "a lack of high-quality research assessing the outcomes of hormones for masculinisation or feminisation in adolescents with gender dysphoria or incongruence and few studies that undertake long-term follow-up"; and
so-called gender-affirming care is "an area of remarkably weak evidence."

Prior to the release of the Cass Review, a peer-reviewed study in the esteemed quarterly journal BMJ Mental Health revealed that "medical gender reassignment does not have an impact on suicide risk."

Journalist Mia Hughes revealed in a report published last year by Michael Shellenberger's think tank, Environmental Progress, that prominent members of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health — the organization that literally wrote the book on "transgender" care — have themselves raised issues with the drugs and procedures that Markey, Schumer, Booker, McBride, Schakowsky, Warren, and other Democrats are desperate to protect.

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WPATH members quoted in Hughes' report discussed the inability of minors to comprehend the long-term consequences of sex-change procedures, the debilitating side effects of such procedures, and problems with obtaining informed consent.

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Alleigh Marre, executive director of the American Parents Coalition, said in a statement obtained by Blaze News, "Sadly, many on the left have been captured by radical gender activists and appear determined to allow children to be the subject of irreversible and experimental gender interventions."

"Protecting children from making permanent, life-altering decisions about their bodies should be a bipartisan issue," continued Marre. "This ruling establishes important precedent in states seeking to end or regulate gender practices for minors, which have unfortunately become increasingly easy to obtain."

"Democratic leaders would do well to recognize that the Skrmetti decision is not a judgment against any group, but a vital affirmation of common sense, parental rights, and biological reality," Kelsey Reinhardt, president of CatholicVote, told Blaze News. "These are principles that the American people have consistently supported."

The Republican National Committee noted on X, "Democrats want taxpayers to fund sex changes for MINORS! SICK!"

Attorney General Pam Bondi applauded the SCOTUS decision, encouraging "other states to follow Tennessee’s lead and enact similar legislation to protect our kids." Tennessee is one of the 25 Republican states that have laws on the books protecting children from sex-change procedures.

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DOJ issues head-scratching statement after trans-identifying man convicted in COVID fraud case

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice issued a confusing press release after a Louisiana man who pretends to be a woman pled guilty in a COVID fraud case.

On Thursday, Brandon Jarrow, 33, pled guilty to theft of government funds and making false statements, the press release said.

According to the DOJ, the conviction stems from two separate incidents involving COVID-related funds designated to assist small businesses. In June 2020, Jarrow filed a false application for a loan from the Economic Injury Disaster Loans program that resulted in a "theft" of $95,000 from the government. Then in February 2021, Jarrow made "false statements" to an approved lender about a "sham business," resulting in a $20,833 Paycheck Protection Program loan.

Jarrow now faces up to 15 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. He is scheduled to be sentenced on August 13.

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The press release also described the defendant as a "New Orleans Woman" who sometimes goes by the name Brandi Jarrow. The press release even uses a female pronoun in reference to Jarrow, though Jarrow's legal name is apparently still Brandon and a quick scroll through Brandi Jarrow's Facebook photos reveals that Jarrow looked decidedly more masculine in his early 20s.

On various posts on the Facebook account, Jarrow claimed to be "transgender," a "trans woman," and a New Orleans "queen."

The gender confusion in the DOJ press release about Jarrow's conviction is particularly notable now that President Trump has issued an executive order demanding that the federal government adhere to fixed biological definitions of sex and gender.

Jarrow even starred in a March 2021 PBS documentary entitled "A Fine Girl," which described Jarrow as a "trans woman of color" who opened an "inclusive luxury salon." The "Fine Girl" episode purported to be "a joyful, optimistic portrait of what's possible when we include and uplift trans people as essential contributors to our community." According to the PBS website, video of "A Fine Girl" expired in April 2024.

"'Women' or 'woman' and 'girls' or 'girl' shall mean adult and juvenile human females, respectively," said the EO issued on Inauguration Day. "'Men' or 'man' and 'boys' or 'boy' shall mean adult and juvenile human males, respectively."

Those definitions "shall govern all Executive interpretation of and application of Federal law and administration policy," the EO claimed.

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Shane Jones, the public information officer for the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana, did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

In addition to federal law enforcement, Jarrow also appears to be a familiar face to local cops. In November, the New Orleans Police Department issued a "be on the lookout" request for Jarrow, whom the department characterized as a "Black Female." Police claimed Jarrow was suspected in two separate identity theft cases that occurred a week apart in September.

"In both cases the victims reported their cellphones and wallets were stolen. Through investigation, detectives positively identified Jarrow as the subject who used the victim's information to make online charges at businesses registered to Jarrow," the BOLO request stated.

H/T: The Post Millennial

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