Weekly News Roundup: May 2-8, 2025

The week in gender

Welcome to our weekly newsletter! Every Friday, just for paid subscribers, Informed Dissent publishes a roundup, written by Ben Appel, of the previous week’s gender-related news. Our next podcast episode drops tomorrow morning. Happy Friday!

What’s the matter with Loudoun County?

This week, ABC 7 reported that a trans-identifying female video-recorded three of her 15-year-old male classmates in the boys’ high school locker room. Her reason? She overheard them talking about how uncomfortable they were with having a girl in their private space.

Loudoun County Public School policy prohibits video and audio recording in school locker rooms. And yet it’s the boys who are now being investigated for a possible Title IX violation, specifically sexual harassment.