Defending Education filed a Title IX complaint against Princeton University for forcing students to use “gender neutral” bathrooms, pushing “transgender ideologies,” and perpetuating gender discrimination.
“Princeton admits that Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, but Princeton’s Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity equates sex discrimination with “[s]ex or gender discrimination,” Defending Education wrote in the complaint shared with the Washington Examiner.
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“Gender identity discrimination is not the same as sex discrimination under Title IX, and the Supreme Court has never held otherwise. Nevertheless, Princeton has prioritized some students’ subjective feelings over all female Princeton students’ rights to sex-segregated intimate spaces. Princeton takes great pride in this,” the parents’ rights group added.
Moreover, Princeton offers two distinct graduation ceremonies, which include a “Rose Graduation” ceremony that celebrates “women and female accomplishments and achievements,” and a “Lavender Graduation” ceremony that celebrates “queer and trans accomplishments and achievements.”
As stated in the complaint, Princeton takes great pride in its work advancing transgender policies on campus, writing on the landing page for its “Gender Sexuality Resource Center” that, “[s]ince the early 2000s, members of the Princeton University administration have been working to improve services and support for transgender students as well as streamline processes to make the experience easier for those who want to access any kinds of medical transition.”
“Princeton is considered a leader among colleges and universities for our support for transgender students and was featured in the Advocate as a Top 10 Trans-Friendly University,” the website says.
Aside from the exclusive graduations, the complaint cites multiple violations of Title IX, including Princeton University offering 250 gender-inclusive restrooms, boasting all-gender dorms, and prescribing hormone replacement therapy to students.
It also violates Presidential Executive Order 14168 regarding sex discrimination in federally funded programs, and it contravenes the Department’s stakeholder guidance on Title IX and the prevention of sex discrimination in federally funded programs.
Additionally, Princeton offers little exemption for students who feel unsafe in a “gender-neutral ” environment.
As a result, many female students have protested these bathroom policies in the past, even though all the complaints have hit a dead end.
As one student put it in The Daily Princetonian, “knowing that there are male students in a place that I’ve always considered a safe haven scares me. Another student article emphasized that “having the option to be surrounded by” only female students “would be really nice and less stressful.”
A third female student concluded: “[N]o students should have to share a bathroom with the opposite [sex] if they do not feel comfortable doing so.” Yet Princeton forces female students to do exactly that.
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The complaint is not unprompted. Defending Education reported that prior to their complaint, a Princeton parent expressed his daughter’s concern over her uncomfortable and unsafe living arrangement in an email chain with the university’s dean, obtained by Defending Education.
The Associate Dean acknowledges the bathroom policy’s existence and says he informed the University of the parent’s concerns, but the Associate Dean ultimately took no action to change the policy.