The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and Student Privacy Policy Office (SPPO) launched an investigation into four Kansas school districts.

In a press release on Thursday, the investigations initiated against Topeka Public Schools, Shawnee Mission Public Schools, Olathe Public Schools, and Kansas City, Kansas, Public Schools follow a complaint filed by the Defense of Freedom Institute (DFI).

The complaint alleged the districts' policies and practices permit students to participate in sports and access intimate facilities based on a student's "gender identity" versus their biological sex, according to the release.

The complaint goes on to add that the districts' policies prevent school officials from disclosing a student's gender identity to their parents withou

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