A transgender student filmed three boys in a Virginia high school locker room who he claimed were bullying him for his gender identity.
But his attempt to ostracize them backfired when parents of the accused tormenters and the state’s governor questioned why the three boys were being filmed secretly inside the locker room in the first place.
Earlier this month, Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) launched a Title IX investigation after the trans student recorded a friend group that was uncomfortable with a biological female being in the changing room.
Stone Bridge High School, where the video was taken, is probing the incident as a sexual harassment case.
The video, obtained exclusively by ABC 7 on Friday, reveals what truly transpired in the locker room.
The families of the teens accused of harassment were allegedly denied copies of the footage at first.
As the video depicts, the transgender boy seemingly walks into the locker room with his phone in his pocket, sparking a reaction from the teens inside, prompting them to speak among themselves.
‘There’s a girl in here? There’s a girl?’ one boy is heard asking.
About 30 seconds later, another boy adds, ‘Why is there a girl? I’m so uncomfortable there is a girl.’
‘A female, bro, get out of here,’ someone says.
Then, the trans takes his phone out of his pocket and point it directly at the students who were making the comments.
Parents were finally able to obtain the video through the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO), which has the video because officers are investigating if the trans student committed a crime by recording minors in the dressing room.
LCPS explicitly bans locker room recordings, but in an email to Wolfe, a representative allegedly told him the video did not compromise anyone’s privacy.
The parents have questioned why the student behind the camera is not being penalized for violating their privacy.
‘I have a daughter that’s in high school as well, and if there was a male in there videotaping her in the locker room, I would have issues,’ Seth Wolfe, a father of one of the accused, told ABC 7.
‘If it’s my son and there’s a female in the locker room videotaping, I have issues. Even if it was somebody of the same sex, I believe that this is an invasion of their privacy.’
Wolfe also claimed the LCPS investigator tried to grill his son into confession to something he did not do.
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