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Attorney General Pam Bondi and the U.S. Department of Justice person turned their oculus westbound successful President Donald Trump's conflict to antagonistic a question of trans athletes competing successful girls' precocious schoolhouse sports.
The DOJ announced an probe into California's precocious schoolhouse sports league, the CIF, and California Attorney General Rob Bonta, to find whether the authorities has violated Title IX by enabling trans athletes to vie successful girls' sports since 2014.
"Title IX exists to support women and girls successful education. It is perverse to let males to vie against girls, invade their backstage spaces, and instrumentality their trophies," Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet K. Dhillon said successful a statement. "This Division volition aggressively support women’s hard-fought rights to adjacent acquisition opportunities."
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California precocious schoolhouse girls' athletes deterioration 'Protect Girls Sports' shirts astatine a postseason way conscionable astatine Yorba Linda High School connected Saturday, May 10, 2025. (Courtesy of Reese Hogan)
The bureau of United States Attorney Bill Essayli, who antecedently served arsenic a California authorities lawmaker and fought connected the crushed to enactment families opposing trans athletes successful girls' sports, is besides progressive successful the investigation.
"The instrumentality is clear: Discrimination connected the ground of enactment is amerciable and immoral," said United States Attorney Bill Essayli. "My bureau and the remainder of the Department of Justice volition enactment tirelessly to support girls’ sports and halt anyone – nationalist officials included – from violating women’s civilian rights."
The announcement cites a existent suit filed by the families of 2 girls' precocious schoolhouse athletes astatine Martin Luther King High School successful Riverside, California. The announcement did not place the plaintiffs by name.
The lawsuit, which was filed by the families of Taylor Starling and Kaitlyn Slavin, alleged the school's cross-country squad dropped Starling from her varsity spot successful favour of a trans athlete, and that schoolhouse administrators compared their "Save Girls Sports" t-shirts to swastikas, Fox News Digital has antecedently reported.
Starling adjacent testified earlier the location legislature supporting a brace of bills that would person reversed California's girls' sports eligibility argumentation connected April 1. Both bills failed to walk owed to absorption from the Democrat Majority. But now, the suit is being cited successful a national investigation.
Trump's Department of Justice has already shown itself consenting to writer a authorities for allowing trans athletes to vie successful girls' sports. Bondi announced a suit against Maine connected April 16 aft weeks of warnings and tension, that included aggregate national backing pauses, which person been restored, and a nationalist spat betwixt Trump and Governor Janet Mills.
Starling's father, Ryan Starling, antecedently told Fox News Digital that helium supported Trump's backing cuts to Maine, and would enactment akin sanctions against his authorities for allowing trans athletes successful girls' sports.
"Good," Ryan Starling said successful effect to seeing the concern successful Maine, knowing the aforesaid could soon play retired successful his state. "That's the lone happening they reply to, is erstwhile their backing is chopped and erstwhile it really affects their pocketbooks, that's the lone happening that volition get it to change.
The concern successful Maine was prompted heavy by quality of a trans jock who won a girls' rod vault contention aft antecedently competing successful the boys' category.
Now, California faces a imaginable akin result successful its authorities way and tract championship.
The upcoming girls' authorities rubric conscionable volition diagnostic a trans jock competing successful girls' agelong leap and triple jump. The athlete, AB Hernandez of Jurupa Valley High School, has dominated the girls' postseason truthful far, taking archetypal spot successful some events successful the sectional last connected May 17.
Trump's Department of Education antecedently sent a warning to California and Jurupa Valley High School via an exclusive connection to Fox News Digital connected May 15.
The precocious schoolhouse has defended letting Hernandez vie successful the girls' category, arsenic to travel existent authorities law.
"JUSD continues to travel some California instrumentality and CIF argumentation regarding schoolhouse athletics. Both authorities instrumentality and CIF argumentation presently necessitate that students beryllium permitted to enactment successful diversion teams and competitions accordant with their sex identity, irrespective of the sex listed connected the pupil's records. JUSD remains committed to protecting the rights and information of the students we serve, successful accordance with applicable authorities and national laws," the territory said successful a erstwhile connection provided to Fox News Digital.
Trump himself got successful connected the statement erstwhile helium sent a Truth Social station connected Tuesday morning, informing the authorities and Governor Gavin Newsom of imaginable backing cuts, and orders to section authorities to forestall the trans jock from competing connected Saturday.
Just hours later, the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) announced it would marque a flimsy regularisation alteration for this weekend's championship. The alteration allows biologically pistillate athletes who fell conscionable shy of qualifying for the title down a trans jock a accidental to vie for the rubric this weekend.
Newsom's bureau provided a connection to Fox News Digital supporting the CIF's decision.
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This alteration volition effect successful astatine slightest 2 competitors qualifying to vie for the authorities rubric aft falling conscionable shy of the emblematic qualification threshold connected Saturday.
"CIF's projected aviator is simply a reasonable, respectful mode to navigate a analyzable contented without compromising competitory fairness — a exemplary worthy pursuing. The Governor is encouraged by this thoughtful approach," the connection read.
Newsom previously admitted helium thought biologic males competing successful girls' sports was "deeply unfair," during an occurrence of his podcast successful March.
Jurupa Unified School District (JUSD) wherever Jurupa Valley High School is based, was included successful the DOJ's database of recipients of a missive informing of the incoming investigation, successful the department's official announcement connected Tuesday. However, the schoolhouse territory claims it has not received immoderate missive of complaint, a spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
The DOJ has confirmed to Fox News Digital that the JUSD is named successful the letter.
Fox News Digital has reached retired to the CIF, Bonta's bureau and Riverside Unified School District for a response.
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Jackson Thompson is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital. He antecedently worked for ESPN and Business Insider. Jackson has covered the Super Bowl and NBA Finals, and has interviewed iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.
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