‘Endangering young girls’: School district spends $400 an hour to defend letting males shower with females * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
School officials in Jefferson County, Colorado, already cited by the feds at least twice for trying to push their leftist LGBT beliefs onto students and families, now are spending $400 per hour of taxpayer money for lawyers to fight to impose those transgender ideologies.
A report at the Center Square reveals the district is paying that sum to lawyers in its legal fight against the U.S. Department of Education, which already has found the district in violation of the federal Title IX school funding law.
The district insists on allowing boys in girls’ private spaces, such as showers and locker rooms, if the boy says he is female, which, following science, is an impossibility.
Investigative reporter for Defending Education Casey Ryan told The Center Square: “Spending $400 per hour on activist attorneys to defend allowing biological males to continue playing in girls’ sports is inexcusable.”
He pointed out that the school isn’t necessarily succeeding, as only 45% of elementary students can read at a proficient level.
Ryan said school officials in the district covering much of the western part of the Denver metropolitan area care “more about pushing a radical political agenda onto their students than actually providing a decent education.”
Further, it is “endangering young girls who deserve better,” he said.
The Center Square said it did not get a response from the Jefferson County Public Schools.
Defending Education said in its report that it was recently alerted “to the fact that Jefferson County Public Schools had hired notable Democratic lawyer Timothy Heaphy in the district’s legal efforts against the U.S. Department of Education.”
The documents show the district paying the lawyer “$400 per hour for attorney services to defend allowing students to use the facilities and play in sports according to their preferred gender identity.”
The district earlier went to court in its fight to let boys into girls’ showers.
Jefferson County Schools in CO just voted to pursue legal action against the Dept of Education for opening a Title IX investigation into them
One board member calls it an “investment” into students.@JeffcoSchoolsCo reportedly has 61 males on girl’s sports teams‼️
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— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 25, 2026
And WorldNetDaily reported when the district was sued by the federal government over its transgender ideologies.
The district is so deep into that agenda that officials insist that males and females share beds on school trips, even while claiming to parents the genders are kept apart on different hotel floors. The district simply classifies a boy who says he is a girl as a girl.
The federal government has cited the district’s “indifference” to the federal Title IX law.
The Department of Education weeks ago warned school officials about their failings.
That followed the federal department’s determination a few weeks ago that the district probably put up to 61 male students on sports teams for girls.
“Not only did the district trample on females’ sex-based protections by allowing males to compete in their sports, intrude in their bathrooms, and sleep in their overnight accommodations, but now it refuses to fix the problem after being given the chance. It is indifferent to the law and to the safety, privacy, and dignity of women and girls. Its behavior here is unconscionable,” charged Kimberly Richey, the agency’s assistant Secretary for Civil Rights.
“The district must restore Title IX protections or risk further enforcement action. As we continue to honor June as Title IX Month, the Trump Administration will not allow students to continue to be abused at the hands of a radical ideological agenda that undermines the basic protections to which they are entitled under law.”
The district earlier was described has having thumbed its nose at federal law.
It was because a district official issued a statement complaining that the federal government is wrong.
“Providing equal access to programs and services for all Jeffco students, including those who are transgender, does not violate Title IX,” the statement said. “The Department’s interpretation has no basis in the Title IX regulations and is not supported by any binding court decision. It conflicts with a recent U.S. District of Colorado decision which considered the same Jeffco policies.”
The district statement said it would not be bound by the decisions from the Trump administration and would lean on the words of leftist Democrats who previously were in the White House, as, “Prior federal administrations have taken the direct opposite view—that Title IX protects transgender students’ access to school programs and facilities.”
Joe Biden’s administration, in fact, chose as one of its highest priorities the promotion of LGBT lifestyle choices, especially the transgender ideology which it promoted throughout American government and around the globe. The ideology is failed, as scientifically, males cannot become females or vice versa.
Further, the schools claim that the extreme leftist agenda on the state of Colorado, which has attacked Christians for their faith, demanded to control the speech of counselors, tried unsuccessfully to control the faith statements of business owners, pushed LGBT ideologies everywhere under the guidance of homosexual Gov. Jared Polis, and more, requires them to subject girls to boys in their locker rooms.
The school statement cited the high authority of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which repeatedly has lost at the U.S. Supreme Court, for having “interpreted state law to require school districts to accommodate students based on their gender identity.”
Bob Unruh