Loudoun County Public Schools is facing an investigation from the Virginia attorney general after a high school student’s father said officials with the school district opened an investigation into his son and two other boys because they privately expressed discomfort with a biologically female student using their locker room.

Loudoun County Public Schools is facing criticism over its handling of one of the first disputes to emerge involving a biological female, who identifies as a male, using gender-specific facilities that do not correspond to her sex at birth.