Trump’s Education Department Probes Blue State School for Turning Girls’ Bathroom into ‘All-Gender’ Space

Girl in locker room

President Donald Trump’s Department of Education announced the opening of an investigation into a Colorado high school Tuesday for reportedly turning a women’s bathroom into an “all-gender” facility.

East High School in the Denver Public Schools District now has a men’s restroom and an all-gender restroom but no female-only space on the second-level of the building, the education department said in its announcement of the investigation, alleging that the school may have violated students’ constitutional rights. The department cited the Title IX rule, which mandates that institutions receiving federal funds provide similar facilities to both sexes.

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Parents Petition Denver Schools to Stop ‘Seal of Diversity’ Program

Denver East High School

A Denver high school allows students to take classes such as Queer Literature and Gender Studies to earn a “Seal of Diversity” award.

Students can submit a short, five-minute application to be part of the program, then take “diversity, equity, and inclusion”-related classes and engage with a DEI-related club or organization on campus to receive the award, according to documents obtained by The Daily Signal through a Colorado Open Records Act request.

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