California education authorities have formally rejected the demand of the Trump administration to bark transgender girls from girls’ school sports teams, increasing tension between the Golden State and the White House.
The state education department refused to sign on Monday A proposed resolution agreement With administration, which will require it to instruct schools across California to ban trans girls from girls’ games; “male and female;” Adopt the “biology-based” definitions of the word; Strip your title and record transgender female athletes and apologize to Sisinder girls to allow your educational experiences to “get married by sex discrimination”.
The Office of the Office of the Office of the US Education Department (OCR) sent a proposal to the Education Department of California and the California Intercolastic Federation (CIF), which oversees the high school game in the state, after investigation at the end of last month that the agencies violated the title IX, federal law against sexual discrimination in schools.
President Trump’s administration has argued since the title IX schools prevent transgender students-athletes from permission to compete on girls and women’s sports teams. In a signature ceremony for February 1 executive Order Opposing his participation, Trump said he was putting up schools that refuse girls to kick the girls on “notice” and threaten their funding.
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State officials refused, and the student shared the podium in the second and first place with other girls in the state final in Clowis, California in June after CIF. Its competition rules changed To allow additional students to compete in events and give medals where he was eligible.
In a brief communication for OCR on Monday, General Council Lan Garfinkle, General Council of California Education Department wrote that the department “disagree with the analysis of OCR, and it would not sign the proposed resolution agreement.” In a separate letter, CIF general lawyer Dyne Marshal-Framen said that the organization would not sign the proposed agreement.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon, who posted screenshots of both letters On its official X accountCriticized the reactions and already the comments by California village Gavin Newsom (D) said that transgender girls were “empty political grandeur” expressing some reservation for allowing girls to compete with Siszerre girls.
The 2028 Democratic Presidential Governor and Possible contenders said that he participated in the athletics of girls and women during his “This is Gavin Newsom” Podcast’s March episode. “Inappropriately.” He told reporters the following month that he would be “open” to a conversation about limiting the participation of trans athletes if it is “a kind of respectable and responsible and can get a kind of balance.”
McMahon said on Tuesday that Newsom will soon listen to Attorney General Palm Bandy, emphasizing a provision in the proposed resolution agreement, stressing that California’s Education Department and CIF would face “adjacent enforcement action” by the Department of Justice if an agreement was not reached till 7 July.
A spokesperson of a newsomom did not immediately return the request for comment.
Justice Department Already investigating Is the California’s law transgender students a gender identity to participate in the game protecting the rights of students-athletes.
California refuses to follow the demands of the administration to ban Trans students from girls and women’s games Agreed to do so After a uniform OCR check.
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For months, Trump has been administration Closed in a fight On the participation of transgender athletes in the main, which, like California, refused to ban Trans girls from girls’ school games despite the demands of the White House.
