10/16/2025
Our latest statement on Stone Bridge Locker Room Incident and Title IX Investigation:
LCPS has released the details of its Title IX investigation into two students who harassed and bullied a transgender student. Since May, the parents of the cis students, their attorneys, and several aligned media outlets have orchestrated a coordinated campaign of disinformation, knowingly misrepresenting the facts to fuel political outrage. They claimed these students were punished merely for “expressing discomfort” about a transgender peer. They knew that was false.
An independent Title IX investigation—backed by 24 staff and student witnesses—found that the students’ conduct was severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive, amounting to relentless harassment over the course of a year.
● Over the 2024–2025 school year, the students targeted their transgender classmate, creating a hostile environment that caused the student to stop using the locker room altogether.
● The report also says that the students repeated “their questions at a loud volume over weeks and months, typically outside the presence of any authority figure.”
â—Ź The investigation further confirmed that the trans student, who briefly recorded a video in the locker room, was separately investigated and disciplined under LCPS Policy 8655 for violating school rules, contrary to what the parents have claimed thus far.
Yet, even with these facts in hand, adults—some of whom hold political ambitions—chose to manipulate the story, turning a child’s suffering into a talking point to inflame voters ahead of an election. This deceit has real victims. It has retraumatized the targeted student, endangered LGBTQ+ youth across the county, and forced LCPS and taxpayers to shoulder the cost of defending against a narrative built on lies. It has once again used LCPS students, educators, and families as political pawns in a cynical effort to stoke fear and division.
On Friday, October 10, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction temporarily pausing LCPS’ enforcement of two students’ suspensions from Stone Bridge High School. The judge required the plaintiffs to post a $125,000 bond by October 15, citing “significant weaknesses in the plaintiffs’ allegations.” This order is not a finding against LCPS. This injunction does not invalidate the investigation, overturn the findings, or clear the students of responsibility. It is a procedural pause, and the judge’s requirement of a six-figure bond underscores the weakness of the plaintiffs’ case and undercuts the narrative being circulated by their parents and political backers.
Loudoun4All reaffirms that our schools must protect all students from harassment and ensure every child is treated with dignity and respect. Parents and politicians who misrepresent bullying over the span of an entire school year as “discomfort” are not defending free expression—they are defending harassment. Loudoun4All condemns this campaign of disinformation in the strongest possible terms.
Furthermore, we ask the question of why this episode of harassment was allowed to go on for a full school year before being addressed? We are reminded of the incident in 2021, when, much the same as this year, an incident at Stone Bridge High School was used by political operatives in order to attack transgender students and swing votes. We must ensure that our school administrators do not tolerate bullying or harassment, and enforce the board's zero-tolerance bullying policy.
Our schools cannot function, and our communities cannot heal, when facts are sacrificed for headlines. We will continue to stand with students and families committed to facts, inclusion, and safe schools for everyone.
See our updated timeline of events and court documents, posted on our website.
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