Two boys were found guilty of sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination at Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn, Virginia. Their offense? They were uncomfortable sharing a locker room with a trans-identifying, biological female. But experts say the tide is turning as parents increasingly become more aware of the issue.

The boys’ uneasiness landed them a 10-day in-school suspension after Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) launched a Title IX investigation and ultimately ruled in favor of the female student. It turns out that Policy 8040 — which allows students to use the bathroom that aligns with their so-called gender-identity — is the reason. However, critics are sounding the alarm. Should these boys be punished for feeling uncomfortable about sharing a private space with someone of the opposite sex? Adding to their angst, the female student also chose to record the boys as they expressed their concern, which many have argued was a violation of policy as well. Is she going to be held accountable?

On Wednesday’s episode of “Washington Watch,” guest host Jody Hice interviewed Victoria Cobb, president of the Family Foundation of Virginia, to help sort through the layers of this case.

As Cobb explained, “Our legal arm, the Founding Freedoms Law Center, is representing technically three boys who were all investigated under a charge of sexual harassment because a girl decided to go into the boy’s locker room and record.” She added, “One of the boys was exonerated by the school district, and two have now been handed down a guilty punishment.” Hice asked the burning question on everyone’s minds: “Why was the girl not charged with sexual harassment for going in there to start with?” Given the fact that she was filming in a private space, he asked, “Why is it that the victims are the ones who are charged here, and the one who’s really creating the problem gets to walk?”

Cobb agreed with Hice’s assessment, stating that the boys have filed a Title IX complaint against the girl for being in their private space and recording them. However, “The school district dismissed … that effort.” What’s more shocking? According to Cobb, “[W]e know that that is a complete violation of a Loudoun County policy that one cannot videotape in a locker room. And to date, we know of no punishment for that activity that she did to start this whole mess.”

Hice pointed out the fact that this is not the first time Loudoun County has been the center of attention for LGBT-related incidents. In 2021, for example, the same high school was the center of a major controversy after a boy wearing a skirt sexually assaulted a female student in the locker room. He was transferred to a different school in the district in October, where he went on to commit the same offense against another female student.

The heart of the matter, Cobb said, is simple: “When you have bad policies, they create bad situations.” In this case, Loudoun County has “a terrible policy allowing biological boys in girls’ bathrooms and vice versa.” Some of these policies are what have allowed crimes to take place such as with the skirt-wearing male student. But as Cobb noted, these policies have also caused innocent people to be punished — in addition to the boys at Stone Bridge.

“They also had a teacher [who] was fired,” she said, “because he wasn’t willing to lie that a boy can become a girl and vice versa. … [T]his idea that people stick to the truth, that they speak out, and that the county tries to come against them is just tragic.” But despite the decisions made by LPSC officials, Cobb asserted that “parents are going to protect their kids in private spaces. They’re going to defend these boys’ rights to be in a locker room without a girl.”

Beyond parents’ own pushback, though, are the efforts coming from the Trump administration. The Department of Education has already launched investigations into five Virginia school districts on the grounds that they have violated Title IX with gender policies. Each county that refuses to comply risks losing federal funding. But Cobb explained something unique about Loudoun County, specifically that it has about “$100 million [in funding] to spare,” meaning they may not feel as pressured to comply. “[N]ormally we hear the case where school districts are just pleading that they need more money,” Cobb stated, “but apparently, they are more wedded to the woke ideology and to a false reality than they are to ensuring that kids get the proper education and receive the funds that the district needs.”

“[T]hat’s a great point,” Hice added. “[T]hey are married to this whole woke ideology in spite of federal law. … What does this tell you about … what we’re seeing culturally,” this “willingness to just in-your-face violate the law?”

“It really is remarkable,” Cobb agreed. “And I think the average American is stunned that we have gotten to the point where this delusion of transgenderism … can allow people to pretend that they are a sex that is not the biological sex that they were given by God. The fact that this delusion has gotten to the point” where “we have entire school districts held hostage to this idea, and that they are willing to literally suspend children, fire teachers, and now reject federal funds.”

“[E]veryone knows it’s not just a Loudoun County problem,” Cobb concluded. “Many people experience this in their counties all across the country. And parents know it’s not just these boys getting suspended. If it can happen to these boys, it can happen to their children. And so, there really is a tide turning. Parents are finally coming out and saying, ‘Look, we’re not willing to [allow] this.’”