The Loudoun County School Board voted not to comply with a request from the Department of Education to sign a resolution agreement to change the Virginia school system’s policy allowing transgender students to use facilities that match their gender identity instead of their biological sex.

In a joint statement from board Chair Melinda Mansfield and Loudoun County Public Schools Superintendent Aaron Spence, they said the school board remains committed to “complying with applicable law and to protecting the rights of all students.”

They added that the Education Department said the school system’s policy to allow students to use the bathroom of their choice is in conflict with Title IX, “creating a direct tension between federal agency guidance and binding judicial authority.”

In July, t

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