Princeton University’s “gender-neutral” bathroom policy has reportedly left some women on campus feeling “scared” in one of the few spaces they’ve considered a “safe haven,” according to a new federal complaint.
The parental rights group Defending Education filed a complaint last week against Princeton University with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, accusing the university of violating Title IX civil rights law by denying female students’ rights to sex-segregated intimate spaces, requesting that the department investigate.
“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,'” the complaint stated, citing the university’s Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity’s definitions regarding what constitutes harassment and discrimination.
“Gender identity discrimination is not the same as sex discrimination under Title IX, and the Supreme Court has never held otherwise,” the document continued. “Nevertheless, Princeton has prioritized some students’ subjective feelings over all female Princeton students’ rights to sex-segregated intimate spaces.”
Princeton University did not immediately respond to The Christian Post’s request for comment. In its complaint, Defending Education describes itself as an “interested third-party organization with members who are parents of students throughout the country” who oppose “discrimination on the basis of sex” in education.
The parental advocacy group noted that the New Jersey-based university offers 250 “gender-inclusive” restrooms, all gender dorms, and prescribes gender hormone replacement therapy to students, “despite federal law and federal directives to the contrary.”
