For the past couple of weeks, Loudoun County, Virginia, has denied that school board members knew about the rape of a ninth-grade girl in one of the school’s female restrooms and that school officials hid the assault from the public. This was a lie, and there is now evidence to prove it.

A confidential email obtained by WTOP shows that Superintendent Scott Ziegler alerted school board members back in May of a May 28 incident in which a 14-year-old girl was anally raped by a “gender fluid” male student wearing a skirt in the female restroom at Stone Bridge High School. He did not provide specifics.