WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department is investigating whether a Georgia school district's policy allowing transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice created a "hostile environment" for a girl who says she was sexually assaulted in a school bathroom.
The agency's Office for Civil Rights says that bathroom policy is one aspect of the investigation. It also will look at the school district's response to the report of the attack, which the complaint alleges was by "a male student who identified as gender fluid."
The complaint was filed by the conservative group Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of a parent at Oakhurst Elementary School in Decatur, Georgia. She charges that last November the transgender boy groped her child against her protests.
Spokesman Nathan Bailey confirmed Wednesday that the department is investigating.
