experience of Denver students and educators. The gender-neutral restrooms at East High School are not performative virtue signaling.
[Sep 2, 2025]
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to a restroom where they feel secure is not symbolic. It is about dignity, health, and the ability to learn. When students speak, we listen and we act.
Recent public statements from federal officials have framed districts like ours as advancing ideology. That framing does not reflect the lived
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Title IX permits schools to provide sex-separate restrooms. It does not require that to be the only option.
The decision to implement gender-neutral restrooms at East followed direct feedback from LGBTQ+ students who reported they did not feel safe. For these students, access
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they issued conclusions using an approach that departs from established investigative practice and advances an inscrutable interpretation of Title IX.
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creating a multi-stall, gender-neutral restroom at East High School.
What is striking about OCR’s process is what they did not do. They did not visit East High School. They did not interview students, staff, or community members. They did not independently verify the claims they now cite. Instead,
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Interesting email from Denver Public Schools sent to parents today:
The U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) emailed Denver Public Schools a letter of findings. The letter stems from a directed investigation launched in January that alleges the District violated Title IX by
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After reading this, seems like the killer was inspired by the "aura" of all prior mass shooters in the media and wanted to emulate them. That was the only motive.
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Okay, I'm not interested enough to pursue this right now.
I'll leave now.
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I think this was the reason the articles of confederation fell apart - the complexity of making national laws thru state-to-state negotiations.
But maybe we understand the dynamics better now?
I'm not optimistic, since red-state alliances under Obama were never a thing.
