WATCH: 7News obtains locker room video in LCPS investigation into Loudoun Co. boys

LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. (7News) — Last week, 7News’ Nick Minock broke the story that Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) is investigating three young men who were videotaped inside the boy's locker room at Stone Bridge High School.

The video was shot by who they say is a biologically female student that uses the boys' facilities because she identifies as male. That is permitted under the Loudoun County School Board’s Policy 8040.

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The boys' parents insist they did nothing wrong and are demanding to know why their sons are being investigated when the student who shot video in the boy’s locker room, which clearly violates school policy, is not facing the same scrutiny.

7News exclusively obtained the video that started it all and it is the video at the heart of LCPS’s Title IX investigation into three boys accused of sexual harassment of a female student. That student identifies as a boy and has been using the boys' locker room facilities. She took this video in school.

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The female student turns on her camera and walks into the boy’s locker room at Stone Bridge High School.

Most the of video is dark, but you can hear locker room sounds and boy’s voices.

“There’s a girl in here? There’s a girl?” a boy asks.

Thirty seconds later, you hear this:

“Why is there a girl? I’m so uncomfortable there is a girl,” a boy says.

“A female, bro, get out of here,” a boy responds.

The parents of the boys say they were having a conversation amongst themselves and not with the female student.

That’s when the female student appears to take the phone out of her pocket and aims the camera at the boys in the locker room with the shower area and bathroom area in the distance. Shortly after that, the video ends.

There are three audio redactions in the video which are when the boys’ names are being spoken.

LCPS refused to give a copy of the video to the three boys who are being investigated, according to the boys’ families.

The only way the families were able to receive a copy of the video was by submitting a Freedom of Information Act request to the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO), which had a copy of the video.

The LCSO had a copy of the video because deputies were reviewing the video to see if the female student committed a crime by recording minors in a locker room.

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Minock spoke to the parents whose sons are under investigation.

“I don’t even think the Title IX investigation is justified,” Renae Smith told 7News in an exclusive interview.

The parents are mystified and angry, demanding to know what exactly in this video justifies their sons being formally investigated for sexual harassment.

“Loudoun County Public Schools absolutely failed these children, every single one of them, including the complainant,” said Smith. “And they need to take ownership of it.”

“I have a daughter that's in high school as well, and if there was a male in there videotaping her in the locker room, I would have issues,” Seth Wolfe told 7News. Wolfe is the father of another boy under investigation. “If it's my son and there's a female in the locker room videotaping, I have issues.”

“I believe that this is an invasion of their privacy,” added Wolfe.

Loudoun County school policy prohibits any kind of recording in locker rooms. But in an email to Wolfe, an LCPS official said the video the girl recorded does not show his son in a compromising situation or quote “violate his privacy in anyway.”

Wolfe tells 7News that LCPS refused to show him the video in the beginning of his son’s Title IX meeting.

He said an LCPS investigator peppered his son with questions the dad believes were intended to bully him into admitting to something he didn’t do.

“They didn't show us the video until after they had tried to get my son to say who said what and all this kind of stuff,” said Wolfe, who added that the Title IX complaint leaves out quotes that the boys said in the locker room video. “But then once we saw the video, then we started asking about those context questions and how that can be left out. And they didn't really have a good answer for that.”

Minock also spoke to the father of the third boy who is under investigation.

“To me, it looks like they’re targeting the minority,” the father said. “He’s [his son] thinking about dropping school. We say 'no, you didn’t do anything wrong.”

“So, this [Title IX complaint] is having a lot of impact on him?” Minock asked.

“Yes, it’s having a lot of impact,” he answered.

The father is an immigrant who lives in Loudoun County and is considering moving out of the county because of how LCPS has handled the investigation.

“At the end of the day, my kid’s future is at stake,” said Smith. “If this doesn’t go in his favor, which I couldn’t see how, it could affect his college admissions. They could look at that and think he is this terrible person. They don’t look at the context of the situation. They look at the disposition: sexual harassment. And it’s over for him. And that’s not him. He’s a sweet, kind boy. He’s such a gentleman.”

The Founding Freedoms Law Center is representing the families.

All three families of the boys under investigation want LCPS and the Loudoun County School Board to drop the Title IX investigation into their sons.

The next Loudoun County School Board meeting is on Tuesday.

Over a week ago, 7News asked Superintendent Aaron Spence and all nine school board members about this case.

Only Board Member Deana Griffiths answered 7News’s questions saying, “What we are seeing and will continue to see, are the consequences of policies that have introduced confusion and conflict into spaces that were once clear and safe—especially for young children. The truth is, many of these issues would never have arisen if we had upheld the basic principle that boys and girls are biologically different. LCPS students deserve their own private, secure spaces, particularly in bathrooms and locker rooms. Recognizing biological differences isn’t discriminatory; it’s common sense, and it’s essential for protecting the dignity and safety of all children.”

7News, once again, requested interviews with Spence and the eight other school board members on Friday morning. School Board Member Kari LaBell said she was unavailable and the others did not respond.

Right now, the Virginia Attorney General’s Office is investigating LCPS over this Title IX case and the U.S. Department of Education is investigating LCPS and four other northern Virginia school districts for possible violations related to bathroom and locker room policies that allow students to use locker rooms and bathrooms based on gender identity and not biological sex.