Obama-Appointed Activist Judge Dismisses Title IX Lawsuit Against Illinois School District
Parents assert authority over curriculum as education policy becomes a defining cultural battleground.
A federal judge just told a girl in Illinois that sharing a locker room with boys isn't a Title IX problem. That's the actual ruling here, stripped of the legalese. Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman didn't just dismiss a lawsuit, she dismissed the idea that the statute Congress wrote in 1972 to guarantee girls their own spaces still means what it says.
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Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, the Obama-appointed activist judge who once ruled that illegal aliens have Second Amendment rights, has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a student in the Valley View Community Unit School District (VVCUSD) against the district, claiming that allowing male students to use female spaces was a violation of Title IX and equal protection.
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A federal judge just told a girl in Illinois that sharing a locker room with boys isn't a Title IX problem. That's the actual ruling here, stripped of the legalese. Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman didn't just dismiss a lawsuit, she dismissed the idea that the statute Congress wrote in 1972 to guarantee girls their own spaces still means what it says. This is the same judge who found that illegal aliens have Second Amendment rights, so we're not exactly shocked by the creative reading. But creative isn't the same as correct.
Title IX exists because separate facilities for boys and girls were considered a basic, obvious protection, not a controversy. Valley View's policy of letting male students into female locker rooms and bathrooms flips that on its head, and when a student and her family object, they get told by a federal court that they don't have a case. Not that the district was right on the merits. That there's no case to hear at all. That's the part that should bother people regardless of where they land on the underlying question, because it means the courthouse door is closing before the argument even starts.
Parents in that district didn't sign up for a legal experiment. They signed their kids up for public school, with the expectation that the rules on the books would actually apply to them. When judges appointed by one party consistently find ways to rule that those rules don't apply, families start to understand, correctly, that the fight was never really about the law. It's about who gets to write it from the bench.
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