A March incident in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, in which an 18-year-old biological male allegedly exposed his genitalia to four ninth-grade girls in a locker room is finally being investigated by federal authorities. The unnamed male student apparently told the young girls that he identified as a female prior to proving to the girls that, at least biologically, he was a male.
Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) alleges that Sun Prairie East High School neglected to inform the district’s Title IX coordinator or even perform a full investigation of the incident, prompting them to file a complaint with the Biden administration’s Department of Education.
According to WILL, the Sun Prairie Area School District (SPASD) attempted to sweep the incident under the rug.
WILL explained in a June letter to the Department of Education, “Following the incident, one of the girls shared the story with another student, who subsequently informed student services about the incident. At that time, the assistant principal was required to inform the Title IX coordinator about this report of alleged sexual harassment. She did not. A few days later when the four girls gave the student permission to provide their names to student services, the assistant principal told the student that the girls can instead approach her if they wanted. She admitted during a meeting with parents later on that she should have ‘dug deeper’ at that time.”
WILL reported that the families of the victims attempted to address their concerns with the district but were stonewalled and ignored. The district’s support of transgenderism, it seemed, had trumped their obligation to keep young girls safe from perversion.
“Following the school’s failure to sufficiently address the incident, disregard for parents’ concerns, and their stonewalling of an open records request, WILL worked alongside parents of the school district to seek an investigation and remedies from the Department of Education under the Biden Administration. The federal government notified WILL that in response to our complaint they are opening an investigation of SPASD.”
With the Biden administration’s embrace of “woke” politics, one has to wonder how fair any investigation of the incident will be.
“Parents and students should be able to feel confident that their school is complying with federal laws like Title IX, but right now in Sun Prairie parents do not have that confidence,” said WILL attorney Cory Brewer. “We applaud the Department of Education Office of Civil Rights for investigating the allegations made in our complaint, but we all need to wait and see if they take this as seriously as they should. We hope this results in answers for parents and families at the Sun Prairie Area School District, but we won’t know until we see the results of the investigation.”
The school district called media reports of the incident “untrue.”
In an April statement to school-district families, district officials stated that “several accounts of this incident are ill-informed, inaccurate, and incomplete.” The district has also stated that it “does not condone any student of one sex being present in a state of undress in the presence of students of another sex.”
SPASD claimed that it offered the victimized girls “support to the involved students and their families,” but WILL disputed that such an offer was made.
“No one at SPASD contacted the girls to offer supportive measures or an opportunity to file a formal complaint of sexual harassment until after WILL became involved,” WILL’s June letter explained. “When our clients continued to ask questions of the district, they received a response from the Title IX coordinator who said that SPASD ‘does not condone any student of one sex being present in a state of undress in the presence of students of another sex, or a student of one sex showering in the presence of students of another sex.’”
The Title IX coordinator’s response is a typically bureaucratic non-answer, since transgender advocates claim that simply by “identifying” as female, the biological male was, in their eyes, a female.
In a sane world, the 18-year-old male student would have simply been expelled and referred to the police for exposing himself to minors. However, in today’s world of American public schools, perversion is often overlooked in the name of tolerance and equity.
“You have all students who have various rights, and you have to have that communication to say, ‘We’ll support you,'” Green Bay attorney Anthony Steffek explained to Wisconsin Public Radio. “But at the same time — using Sun Prairie — if it’s a biological male who still has a penis, 14-year-old girls have a right not to be exposed to that.”
All of this raises one question: Can the girls who were victimized and their angry parents expect any justice from a Biden administration Department of Education that has largely surrendered any legitimacy it may have once had to the “woke” political agenda?
