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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The U.S. Department of Education has announced the California Department of Education and the California Interscholastic Federation, oregon CIF, violated Title IX aft allowing transgender athletes to enactment successful girls' sports.
The announcement comes conscionable weeks aft precocious schoolhouse jock AB Hernandez won 2 CIF State Track & Field Championship titles successful Clovis connected June 1.
"It doesn't person thing to bash with protecting girls' sports. It's a unsafe and discriminatory onslaught connected transgender children," said Jason Scott, enforcement manager of LGBTQ Fresno.
Scott responded to the quality not with daze but with frustration, aft the administration's repeated calls to bounds transgender athletes' information successful girls' sports successful California and astir the country.
Hernandez is the astir nationalist example, and was a catalyst for the violations, arsenic the Jurupa Valley High School junior's information successful the CIF authorities title conscionable drew disapproval nationwide.
Republican California State Assemblymember David Tangipa, who represents the state's 8th Assembly District, says that aft Hernandez' information and occurrence successful the authorities meet, and the erstwhile warnings from the administration, helium was not amazed to perceive the quality either.
"This is conscionable stating what Title IX has ever stated since the beginning, since each the mode backmost successful the 1970s, that we person protected spaces wherever girls request to person that opportunity," helium said.
The Republican says he's thankful the U.S. Department of Education stepped in, and that it is providing a mode for CIF and the California Department of Education to travel into compliance.
They volition beryllium fixed 10 days to implicit a list of 'action items,' including forbidding biologic boys from participating successful girls sports, restoring miss jock designation if they mislaid records, titles, oregon awards to trans athletes, portion the entities would each person to nonstop personalized apologies to each of those girls, among different database items.
If the CIF and CDE don't travel into compliance, the Trump Administration has threatened they volition look the U.S. Department of Justice.
"If the authorities were to hold to the demands that are being asked of them, it would greenlight bullying and harassment," said Scott. "It would archer students, parents and coaches that it's acceptable to question a child's identity."
Tangipa meanwhile, says the authorities has to travel the national order, and says the authorities needs to o.k. his thought for a caller 'open division'.
"If anyone wants to accidental immoderate they privation to say, place with immoderate they privation to place with, they've got the unfastened part that they're going to vie in," helium said. "Then we person the Title IX protected girls division."
CIF declined to remark connected what they called a ineligible matter.
The California Department of Education, meanwhile, provided the pursuing statement:
“The California Department of Education believes each students should person the accidental to larn and play astatine school, and we person consistently applied existing instrumentality successful enactment of students’ rights to bash so.”
