DENVER — Denver Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Alex Marrero vowed Friday to protect students from a “hostile administration” as he rebuked the U.S. Department of Education’s findings that all-gender restrooms created at East High School earlier this year discriminated against girls.

In response to the findings released Thursday by the department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Marrero struck a defiant tone, accusing the federal government of pushing an “anti-trans agenda through the weaponization of Title IX.”

The office concluded last week that DPS violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 by creating gender-neutral restrooms and adopting a district-wide policy that allows students to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity.

In a letter addressed to DP

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