On November 3, 2025, Defending Education filed a civil rights complaint against Princeton University, a university older than the United States itself, for violations against Title IX, which guarantees female student’s right to sex-segregated intimate spaces.

Among other violations of Title IX and various Executive Orders, Princeton University offers 250 gender-inclusive restrooms, boasts all-gender dorms, and prescribes hormone replacement therapy to students. Astonishingly, Princeton also offers two distinct graduation ceremonies: 1) a “Rose Graduation” ceremony, “celebrating women and fem accomplishments and achievements,” and 2) a “Lavender Graduation” ceremony “celebrating queer and trans accomplishments and achievements.”  And while Princeton admits that Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, its Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity instead equates sex discrimination with “[s]ex or gender discrimination.”

Princeton takes great pride in its work advancing transgender policies on campus, writing on the landing page for its “Gender Sexuality Resource Center” that, “[s]ince the early 2000s, members of the Princeton University administration have been working to improve services and support for transgender students as well as streamline processes to make the experience easier for those who want to access any kinds of medical transition. Princeton is considered a leader among colleges and universities for our support for transgender students and was featured in the Advocate as a Top 10 Trans-Friendly University.” 

The reality of biological sex appears to be a fiction at Princeton, and Defending Education has asked the Department of Education to investigate.  

Read the full complaint below: