The Department of Education opened up an investigation on Thursday into Western Carolina University over reports that it housed a male alongside a female and retaliated against a student after she complained about the presence of a male in a female locker room.
The Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights announced that it had initiated a Title IX investigation into Western Carolina University over allegations that the university “has openly refused to comply with Title IX and to ensure sex-separated intimate spaces in federally funded institutions of higher education.” The announcement comes one day after the group Speech First published communications from the university showing that it was not planning on making changes in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order to keep men who identify as women out of female spaces.
“WCU’s reported contempt for federal…
