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Virginia Governor Kicks Off New Investigation

Virginia Governor Kicks Off New Investigation

On a tense Tuesday morning, the Commonwealth of Virginia found itself once again at the crossroads of cultural tension, legal precedent, and parental outrage. Governor Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares issued forceful statements following an explosive 7News investigation revealing that three male students at Stone Bridge High School are under Title IX investigation—not for misconduct, but for expressing discomfort about a biologically female student in the boys’ locker room.

Governor Youngkin minced no words: “It’s deeply concerning… even more alarming, the victims of this violation are the ones being investigated—this is beyond belief.” Citing his administration’s prior efforts to secure student privacy through model policies, Youngkin reasserted a core principle: students should use facilities aligned with their biological sex unless federal mandates dictate otherwise. He further emphasized parental rights and the obligation for notification and opt-outs—tenets his administration views as non-negotiable.


Attorney General Miyares echoed these sentiments with razor-sharp clarity: “This is about safety and privacy, not political correctness.” Both leaders took aim at Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) and their now-infamous Policy 8040, which permits students to use locker rooms and bathrooms in accordance with their gender identity, not biological sex.

But the crux of this outrage isn’t merely policy—it’s the fallout. A father came forward to detail how his 15-year-old son and two friends were targeted for a Title IX investigation simply for questioning the presence of a female-identifying student in their locker room. According to the father, this student later used a phone to record the boys—an act that violates LCPS’s own rules prohibiting video recording in locker rooms. Yet it is the boys who face investigation, not the one who allegedly made the recording.

“This is a clear invasion of privacy,” the father told 7News, adding that had the roles been reversed—his daughter recorded by a male student—the reaction would be dramatically different.

The situation is drawing broader criticism not only from state officials but from parents across Loudoun County, many of whom—Christian, Muslim, Hindu—united in opposition to Policy 8040 at a school board meeting earlier this year. Their attempts to publicly air grievances were reportedly stifled when the board shut off video coverage during public comment.


This isn’t the first time LCPS has made national headlines. In 2021, Stone Bridge High was at the center of a storm after a male student, who identified as female, was transferred following a sexual assault in a girls’ bathroom. The controversy has only grown since, with further incidents emerging from other county schools involving cross-gender locker room use and resulting protests.

The current administration’s stance—alongside that of President Trump’s U.S. Department of Education—is that federal protections under Title IX do not mandate schools to allow opposite-sex access to locker rooms. In fact, the department is now actively investigating LCPS and four other Northern Virginia districts for potential violations of Title IX and the President’s executive order protecting single-sex spaces.

As for the father at the heart of the latest storm, his concern is as much about his son’s future as it is about the policy’s integrity: “They’re young… they’re expressing their opinions, and now they’re being targeted. That’s not right.”

Written by Mark Stevens - May 7, 2025