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CNA Staff, Dec 5, 2025 \/ 12:07 pm (CNA).<\/p>\n

A Catholic Virginia student will receive payments including attorney\u2019s fees after a school district conceded a lawsuit she brought over the district\u2019s transgender policies.<\/p>\n

The student, identified<\/a> in the October lawsuit as \u201cJane Doe,\u201d said the Fairfax County School Board violated her constitutional rights when it subjected her to \u201cextreme social pressure\u201d to affirm transgender pronoun conventions.<\/p>\n

Doe, identified as a \u201cpracticing Roman Catholic who strives daily to live in accordance with her faith,\u201d felt compelled to engage in self-censorship in which she attempted to \u201cavoid using pronouns altogether\u201d in many circumstances due to fear of punishment from school officials, according to the suit.<\/p>\n

When she expressed concerns over sharing a bathroom with a male student, meanwhile, she was told she could \u201cuse a private restroom if she felt uncomfortable,\u201d according to the suit.<\/p>\n

On Dec. 2 the law group America First Legal called the case a \u201cmajor victory,\u201d sagt<\/a> the Fairfax school district conceded the lawsuit, offering \u201cnominal damages\u201d and paying costs including attorney\u2019s fees.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis outcome sends a clear message: School systems and officials cannot disregard the safety, privacy, and dignity of students in favor of radical gender policies,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo student should face the threat of punishment or be pushed aside for asserting their fundamental constitutional rights,\u201d attorney Ian Prior said in the release.<\/p>\n

The settlement comes amid broader efforts to roll back extreme transgender ideology and LGBT policies at schools around the country, including rules that allow boys to access girls\u2019 restrooms and other private spaces.<\/p>\n

A California federal judge in October allowed for a class action lawsuit<\/a> against California school districts that allow teachers to hide child \u201cgender transitions\u201d from parents.<\/p>\n

In August, meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services told states that they would be required to remove gender ideology materials<\/a> from K\u201312 education curricula or face the loss of federal funding.<\/p>\n

In October 2024, a school board in Virginia agreed to pay a teacher more than half a million dollars<\/a> after he was fired for refusing to use a student\u2019s transgender pronouns. In December of that year an Ohio school board paid a teacher a $450,000 settlement<\/a> over a similar dispute.<\/p>\n

A study from the Centre for Heterodox Social Science in October found a recent decline<\/a> in the number of young Americans who identify as transgender or \u201cnonheterosexual,\u201d though a report from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law in September found that nearly 3 million Americans identify as transgender.<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/268283\/virginia-school-district-concedes-lawsuit-by-catholic-student-over-transgender-policies<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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