Loudoun County Public Schools is facing new legal accusations that it retaliated against two high school boys who objected to a transgender classmate using the boys’ locker room, escalating a clash already drawing scrutiny from federal authorities.
Attorneys for the boys and their families filed an amended complaint Wednesday in Virginia federal court that adds fresh factual allegations and a civil conspiracy claim. The filing argues that the district coordinated with a local political action committee to smear the families publicly after the boys challenged Loudoun’s finding that they committed sexual harassment.
The case stems from an incident at Stone Bridge High School in August, in which a biological female who identifies as male entered the boys’ locker room and recorded the students reacting with discomfort. Loudoun launched a Title IX investigation, which concluded that the boys had harassed the student. They were suspended for 10 days and initially considered marking the determination on their permanent records.
The families appealed internally but were rejected, prompting them to file a federal lawsuit.
New allegations: retaliation through political allies
The amended complaint alleges Loudoun officials shared confidential information with a group called Loudoun For All to assist in issuing statements labeling the families liars, intent on stoking political outrage ahead of local elections.
Those materials, including press releases and a case timeline, appeared on the PAC’s website and social media pages and contained “false and defamatory allegations,” according to the filing. The complaint says the messaging was published shortly after a judge blocked Loudoun from enforcing the boys’ suspensions while litigation proceeds.
/1🚨BREAKING — AFL just filed an amended complaint in our lawsuit against Loudoun County Public Schools — exposing an alleged CONSPIRACY TO RETALIATE against students and shocking new details about its SHAM Title IX investigation. pic.twitter.com/rQ2JsOmHEs
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) October 29, 2025
“It appears the school board was passing along confidential information to a political action committee for the purpose of further retaliating against our clients,” said Ian Prior, senior counsel with America First Legal, which is representing the families alongside the Founding Freedoms Law Center.
Challenges to the school’s investigation
The filing also claims Loudoun’s Title IX process relied on non-credible evidence, omitted key witness interviews, and deleted video footage that could have supported the boys’ account.
The district allegedly credited the female student’s shifting story as “superior” while ignoring evidence that she recorded the boys in intimate spaces and laughed in one of the clips, according to the complaint. A threat assessment found no risk posed by the boys, and the filing notes that the district has handled at least one similar situation without labeling that conduct as sexual harassment.
Loudoun Schools declined to comment, citing pending litigation. LCPS previously told the Washington Examiner the district “would not investigate or discipline students based on their personal opinions, thoughts, or beliefs … provided those expressions do not violate policies prohibiting hate speech, discriminatory language, threats, or other forms of harmful or disruptive conduct.”
Federal pressure already mounting
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has separately found that Loudoun violated Title IX by failing to “meaningfully investigate” the boys’ complaints that a member of the opposite sex entered a male-only restroom, after Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares referred the matter to the federal government in June.
The Trump administration has since placed Loudoun and four other Northern Virginia districts on a stricter funding regime, threatening to cut federal dollars entirely if they do not adjust policies governing bathroom and locker room access.
Advocates of the families cast the new filings as evidence of a political power struggle overtaking student safety.
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“Loudoun appears to have conspired with an outside political organization to continue its attacks,” said Victoria Cobb, president of the Founding Freedoms Law Center. “Meanwhile, a female student repeatedly filmed male students in the bathroom, and the district did nothing.”
A federal judge has barred Loudoun from disciplining the boys while the case moves forward. A trial date has not been set.
