The District’s Policy: The New Richmond School District has a policy allowing boys to use the girl’s bathroom based on a students personal feeling of “gender identity.” The policy has resulted in at least one male being frequently present in the girls’ bathrooms with girls, causing anxiety, stress, and an invasion of personal privacy for the girls.
Our Clients: New Richmond Parents for Strong Schools (herein referred to as the “Association”) is an unincorporated association of students and parents of students who are or were enrolled in the New Richmond School District.
WILL’s Legal Argument: Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 provides that, “[n]o person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” 20 U.S.C. § 1681(a).” The implementing regulations of Title IX state that “[a] recipient may provide separate toilet, locker room, and shower facilities on the basis of sex, but such facilities provided for students of one sex shall be comparable to such facilities provided for students of the other sex.” 34 C.F.R. § 106.33 (2020).
We are seeking a declaration that Defendant’s actions and practices violate Plaintiff’s rights under Title IX by forcing their children to be denied an equal opportunity in their education; a declaration that Defendant’s actions and practices violate Plaintiff’s constitutional rights under the 14th Amendment which prohibits sex discrimination; as well as a permanent injunction enjoining the District Defendants’ policy and ordering Defendants to permit only females to enter and use the District’s girls’ private facilities and only males enter and use the boys’ private facilities.
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- Complaint, April 2026
Deputy Counsel
