The U.S. Department of Education has said Denver Public Schools violated Title IX's prohibition against sex discrimination by having all-gender bathrooms, amid the Trump administration's targeting of LGBT rights in public spaces. As they should.

     The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights opened its investigation into the school district in late January after learning a month before that East High School had converted a second-floor, multi-stall bathroom for girls into an all-gender bathroom.  The Office for Civil Rights determined the district violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 as there was no girls-only designated washroom on the floor, though there was a boys-only washroom.

     The school attempted to rectify the situation by converting the boys restroom into a gender-neutral bathroom as well, but the federal Office for Civil Rights states this still violates Title IX "because males are still allowed to invade sensitive female-only facilities." It was unclear if any other bathrooms in the district's some 200 schools were all-gender facilities.

     The Department of Education said Thursday that the district's Denver Public Schools' LGBTQ+ Toolkit that allows students to use bathrooms that match their gender identity in violation of Title IX.