A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, denied the requests of two Northern Virginia-area school systems that had taken legal action seeking a temporary restraining order preventing the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) from freezing federal funding after the districts refused to comply with a Trump administration directive requiring students use the bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond to their biological sex.

As RedState has reported in recent weeks, five school systems from the Northern Virginia area—Alexandria City Public Schools, Prince William County Public Schools, Arlington Public Schools, Loudoun County Public Schools, and Fairfax County Public Schools—opted to defy the Trump administration and keep their radical transgender bathroom policies in place. 

ED found those school districts to be “in violation of Title IX […] for their policies allowing students to occupy intimate facilities based on “gender identity,” not biological sex.” As a result, all five school systems were elevated to the “high risk” category, which jeopardized the flow of federal dollars into their schools.