The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights said Thursday that Denver Public Schools discriminated against girls by creating a gender-neutral bathroom at East High School and adopting a districtwide policy that allows students to use facilities that correspond with their gender identity.

The Office of Civil Rights gave the district 10 days to agree to a proposed resolution — which includes converting any all-gender restrooms back to single-sex facilities — or “risk imminent enforcement action.”

The agency announced in January that it was investigating DPS after East High created the bathroom last academic year by converting a girls restroom into a bathroom for all genders.

“The district is creating a hostile environment for its students by endangering their safety, pr

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