Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., has urged former President Donald Trump to cut all federal funding from a school district in Illinois after a mother claimed that her daughter and other students were forced to change in front of a transgender student in the girls’ locker room.
Miller called the situation an “egregious violation” of the girls’ privacy and Trump’s “Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports” executive order, which bars transgender athletes from participating in women’s and girls’ sports.
“Forcing young girls to undress in front of a biological male is not just perverted—it’s an egregious violation of their privacy and President Trump’s executive order to protect girls in female-only spaces,” Miller wrote on social media Tuesday.
She urged Trump to “immediately pull all federal funding from the Deerfield School District” and voiced support for Nicole Georgas, the mother who raised the complaint.
Miller’s post came about a week after Georgas addressed the Deerfield Public School District 109 Board of Education.
Georgas alleged that school officials tried to make her 13-year-old daughter and other girls change into gym uniforms in front of a transgender student, even after the girls had protested.
“The girls want their locker rooms and bathrooms back. They want their privacy back. This is why I’m here tonight. My 13-year-old daughter’s well-being, mental health, and privacy are at stake,” Georgas said.
Georgas claimed that Assistant Superintendent Joanna Ford, Assistant Principal Cathy Van Treese, and several teachers entered the girls’ locker room and pressured them to change.
She said this happened repeatedly throughout the week, though her daughter refused to comply.
Georgas said she filed a civil rights complaint with the Justice Department last month.
However, Deerfield Public Schools District 109 denied the allegations in a statement to Fox News Digital.
The district said no student is or was required to change in front of others in the locker room and that their policies align with state law.
“District 109 is committed to providing a learning environment where all students and staff are respected and supported.
Our policies and procedures, including student use of locker rooms, align with state laws, the Illinois School Code, and Illinois State Board of Education guidance.
“No student is required to change into a gym uniform for physical education class in front of others in locker rooms.
All students in the middle schools have multiple options to change in a private location if they wish.”
The Trump administration has targeted several states accused of violating the executive order. Recently, the U.S. Department of Agriculture paused funding to the University of Maine System over a similar issue.
However, the funding freeze was lifted a few days later after U.S. Sen. Susan Collins’s office intervened.
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