Parents blame sexual assaults on school district’s trans bathroom policies without proof

Religious right activists turned out to storm a school board meeting to protest calling students by their name and demand pupils not be taught something that isn’t offered in the district.
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Parents are blaming two sexual assaults against girls, allegedly committed by a 15-year-old gender-fluid boy, on the transgender-inclusive policies of Loudoun County, Virginia.

Police have yet to confirm whether the boy is actually gender-fluid though. And the first attack happened before any policies were instituted or discussed.

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The first alleged assault occurred on May 28 in a girl’s bathroom inside Stone Bridge High School. The accused attacker wore a skirt, the girl’s parents said. The second attack allegedly occurred on October 6 in a vacant classroom inside Broad Run High School. Both schools are in the city of Ashville.

The unnamed alleged assailant was charged with two counts of forceable sodomy for the first incident. He is currently being held in a juvenile detention center.

“The sexual assault on our daughter and the subsequent sexual assault by the same individual were both predictable and preventable,” the unnamed parents of the allegedly assaulted first victim said in a statement released through the Virginia-based Stanley Law Group, The Washington Blade reported.

“Subsequent to the sexual assault on our daughter, Loudoun County Public Schools formalized the policy regarding restroom use that was easily exploitable by a potential sexual assailant,” the statement added.

The trans-inclusive policy was adopted more than three months after the first assault occurred – and after a federal Supreme Court ruling and the issuance of federal guidelines.

In August, the Loudoun County School Board voted to require school workers to…

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