LOUDOUN COUNTY, Virginia, (LifeSiteNews) — A judge in a liberal suburb of Washington, D.C. demanded that the parents of two boys — who had been suspended from school after expressing their discomfort with a gender-confused girl being allowed to undress in their school’s boys’ locker room — gave their parents just three days to post a $125,000 bond in order for their case battling against the school board’s pro-transgender Title IX policies to continue.
The judge’s demand further highlights an ongoing contentious debate in the Loudoun County public school system that has for years enforced controversial policies promoting and protecting LGBT ideology to the detriment of students who are uncomfortable with and have been made to feel unsafe due to those policies.
In a video taken by the male-identifying girl who invaded the boys’ private space, the three boys can be heard expressing to each other their discomfort with her presence there. Her video, which may have been a criminal violation of the boys’ privacy, became the center of the Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) Title IX complaint against the boys.
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The order aims to ensure that if LCPS prevails on dispositive pre-trial motions, LCPS can recover from that bond its attorney’s fees,” ABC 7 News reported.
“We have serious doubts that such a bond can be legally required, and this requirement that the plaintiffs put up the money to pay the government’s attorneys’ fees is certainly very unusual and unexpected, especially when the government acknowledged in court that its insurance policy is covering legal costs,” Josh Hetzler, co-counsel for the parents, told Fox News Digital.
By the time the judge’s initial Wednesday evening deadline arrived, an account set up on the fundraising site, GiveSendGo, had quickly raised well over the requested $125,000 “bond” amount.
“LCPS has branded two good kids as sexual harassers, issued suspensions, and demanded ‘sensitivity training’ because the boys made private comments objecting to a girl being in their locker room,” the GiveSendGo site explained.
“In the latest hearing, the Judge has issued a formidable demand that the Smith & Wolfe families provide a $125,000 bond to cover LCPS legal expenses in the event the court finds against the First Amendment rights of the Loudoun Boys,” the plea for financial assistance continued. “While this case may simply be about two boys – it’s much more than that. It’s about fundamental freedom, privacy and common sense for all families.”
On Friday, Judge Leonie A. Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia granted a motion for a preliminary injunction against Loudoun County Public Schools, blocking the suspension of a student for objecting to the presence of a “transgender” girl in the boys’ locker room.
The student’s suspension must remain halted as litigation continues, ordered the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, America First Legal announced Friday.
The court order also prevents LCPS from logging an incident of Title IX sexual harassment on the personal records of both the student client of America First Legal (AFL) and the Founding Freedoms Law Center (FFLC) and another male student who was suspended after a “sexual harassment” allegation by the LCPS school.
The order follows a previous decision in September that temporarily blocked the suspension.
Loudoun County has gained a reputation for graphic sexual content and LGBT activism in recent years.
In 2021, LCPS was accused of covering up “transgender” student rape after a 15-year-old “gender fluid” boy was charged with raping a female classmate in the girls’ bathroom at the same high school.
In 2019, Loudoun County Public Schools sparked parental outrage with a $2 million “diverse classroom libraries” program that injected sexualized, pro-LGBT books into elementary, middle school, and high school classrooms across the county.
“The excerpts from these books are so explicit that they would garner an ‘R’ rating or an ‘X’ rating,” Larry Ward of Constitutional Rights PAC said at the time. “They’re not only sexually explicit but include scenes of rape and pedophilia.”
