Filing a Title IX Complaint

Since President Trump took office in January, the legal landscape has changed rapidly for public schools in Maryland and across the country. The administration has made clear that it is done with supporting the radical transgender power-brokers in America’s taxpayer-funded schools and will now interpret Title IX – the federal law which prohibits sex discrimination by any school that receives federal funding – to require schools to separate bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports teams by sex rather than gender identity. 

This 180-degree shift from the policies of the previous administration is a major victory for privacy, safety, and fairness for girls, but it is not the whole story. Many schools, in Maryland and other states, continue to allow boys who identify as girls into girls’ bathrooms, locker rooms, and onto their sports teams. The legislature has even pushed to expand on this disregard for the rights of students by tightening requirements that push out parents and force schools to kowtow to the self-entitled discrimination of transgender ideology.

The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has already announced new investigations into a number of schools and other entities for violating Title IX by failing to protect female students’ privacy and safety rights. This includes actions against the Maine Department of Education and the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) for failures to protect female athletes as well as setting up a special investigations team between the federal Department of Education and Department of Justice. This gives you your opportunity. 

If you are the parent of a student in a Maryland school district that is not complying with Title IX, forget the red tape. You don’t need a vote or a verdict—just your voice. File the complaint and take charge. Filing a complaint against the district using the template below gives you what you need to be heard. Federal law prohibits the school district from retaliating against you or your child for filing a Title IX complaint and you have the chance to make an outsized impact. 

Skip the politics. This is your direct line to action. File the complaint. Start the pressure.

It is important to remember that the Department of Education is likely to receive a flood of Title IX complaints on these issues in the near future, so we can’t guarantee that they will take action on any specific complaint. But Maryland schools need to be held accountable for violating the law, and these complaints are the first step in that process. You don’t have to ask permission. You just have to act. This complaint is your tool—use it.