AIM Investigation Triggers Title IX Complaint for Ohio Schools
October 24, 2025
A watchdog group is asking the federal government to investigate Ohio schools, alleging that undercover videos purportedly showing school officials coaching on how to circumvent state law prove they violated Title IX.
Protect the Public’s Trust, which aims to hold government officials accountable, lodged complaints with the federal Education, Justice, and Health and Human Services departments. The complaints follow Accuracy in Media videos that allegedly depict school officials talking about how to sidestep an Ohio law that bars biological boys from participating in girls’ sports.
“Transgender ideology is inherently discriminatory and runs afoul of Title IX of the Civil Rights Act,” the complaints read. “Accordingly, we request that you promptly investigate the school’s violations.”
According to Accuracy in Media, Reading High School counselor Jennifer Leone told its investigator that boys with altered birth certificates and who appear to be female could use girls’ spaces. The burden would be on someone to question it.
“And that’s where, I would think, ‘this is what the birth certificate says, prove that it’s wrong,’” Leone said in the video, “Prove it.”
When asked whether parents would need their child’s original male birth certificate to join a girls’ sports team, Leone advised that parents should keep the child’s original male birth certificate a secret and not “discuss it outside these walls.”
She added: “As long as, you know, the name that’s on your birth certificate is the name that you put in the system, and you fill out everything in the system that matches the birth certificate, again, how are you going to prove it?”
In a statement to The National News Desk, Reading Community Schools Assistant Superintendent Mark Edwards said it would stand with Leone and derided “the deceptive tactics” AIM used.