Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero on Friday denied the district is violating a civil rights law by converting a girls' restroom at its flagship high school campus into an "all-gender" facility.

In a statement, the district official said the district would "protect all of our students from his hostile administration."

However, the district has not decided whether to convert two all-gender bathrooms that sparked the probe back into boys' and girls' bathrooms, spokesperson Scott Pribble said.

That bathroom’s conversion, along with permitting students at East to use facilities on the basis of gender identity, rather than their biological sex, violated Title IX’s prohibition against sex discrimination, the U.S. Department of Education concluded on Thursday.

“As a result,

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