Virginia parents crush fundraising goal for trans locker room fight after judge ordered massive bond

FIRST ON FOX Parents from Northern Virginia late Wednesday night surpassed the massive bond that a judge ordered them to pay in order to stay in court and defend their sons who were suspended and identified responsible for sexual harassment after objecting to a transgender classmate using their male-only locker room The parents who are suing the Loudoun County Masses Schools district raised over ahead of the Friday deadline and even met the original Wednesday deadline before it was granted an extension They were originally ordered by a federal judge last Friday to come up with the funds by the end of the day on Wednesday if they desired to keep fighting for their sons in court The bond was ordered by the judge in the scenario Leonie Brinkema who stated the money is meant to ensure that the parents would be able to pay for the school district's attorney fees if they end up losing We have serious doubts that such a bond can be legally required and this requirement that the plaintiffs put up the money to pay the leadership s attorneys fees is certainly very extraordinary and unexpected especially when the ruling body acknowledged in court that its insurance framework is covering legal costs Josh Hetzler co-counsel for the parents reported in a message to Fox News Digital PARENTS VIRGINIA BOYS SUSPENDED AFTER QUESTIONING TRANSGENDER LOCKER ROOM PROTOCOL WERE IGNORED BY SCHOOLBefore taking the matter to federal court Hetzler Wolfe and Smith sought other avenues to ensure the two boys were not suspended or marked as sexual harassers on their permanent record They sought to appeal the Loudoun County Masses Schools Title IX sexual harassment inspection finding which came after the boys were videotaped by a biological female who identified as transgender inside the boys' locker room The video caught them outwardly complaining to each other about the fact that there was a girl using their facilities which resulted in the boys' suspension and the district's harassment finding against them However the appeal was ultimately denied by the district so the decision was made to take the matter to federal court with the help of Trump-aligned law group America First Legal AFL Meanwhile on Friday Judge Brinkema for the Eastern District of Virginia extended a temporary halt to the boys' suspension so that they could continue attending class as the circumstance is adjudicated But simultaneously Brinkema also expressed considerable weaknesses in aspects of the plaintiffs' statements in another ruling that same day which ultimately required Wolfe and Smith to drum up over the next three business days if they required to keep fighting the matter in court FEDERAL JUDGE RULES IN FAVOR OF ALLOWING SCOTUS OCCURRENCE OVER TRANS ATHLETES TO PROCEED AFTER ATTEMPT TO DISMISS Fortunately we have an extension until Friday Ian Prior AFL's attorney assisting on the development noted as the Wednesday bond deadline approached and it appeared they would not have the funds According to Prior it is not entirely atypical for the prevailing party in a preliminary injunction to have to put up a bond However Prior noted in population interest cases such as this one bond requirements are often set very low sometimes even at Prior also declared he was not aware of bonds being required to cover attorneys' fees In the greater part cases it is done where a company is enjoined from doing something like selling a certain kind of widget for example and the injunction will cost them something Prior reported Fox News Digital The bond helps assure that if the prevailing party does not ultimately succeed the other party is made whole from the impact the injunction had We are not aware of bonds being required to cover attorneys' fees however In Brinkema's order she explicitly indicated the bond was to ensure that if the defendant prevails on dispositive pre-trial motions it can recover from that bond its attorney's fees Wolfe and Smith following the bond order set up an online charity fundraiser to help them raise the funds As of Wednesday morning the online benefit event had collected around but before the end of the day a single donation of from Michael Dearing who appears to be an angel investor pushed the parents within of their goal When petitioned about what their plans would be if they were unable to raise the full amount Prior indicated that there were a multitude of options that could be taken The more that the students raise the easier it will be to post bond even if they do not get to the full k Prior reported Fox News Digital To be clear the event does not get dismissed without posting the bond rather we would lose the preliminary injunction and the suspensions would take place straightaway and the findings would be put into the students' records at a time when they would likely be applying for higher tuition