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WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's medication sued the California Department of Education connected Wednesday for allowing transgender girls to vie connected girls sports teams, alleging the argumentation violates national law.
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The determination escalates an ongoing conflict betwixt the Republican medication successful Washington and Democratic-led California implicit trans athletes competing successful girls and women's sports.
The suit filed by the Justice Department says California's transgender jock policies interruption Title IX, the national instrumentality that bans favoritism successful acquisition based connected sex. The section says California's rules "are not lone amerciable and unfair but besides demeaning, signaling to girls that their opportunities and achievements are secondary to accommodating boys."
"These discriminatory policies and practices disregard undeniable biologic differences betwixt boys and girls, successful favour of an amorphous 'gender identity,'" the suit says. "The results of these amerciable policies are stark: girls are displaced from podiums, denied awards, and miss retired connected captious visibility for assemblage scholarships and recognition."
California has a much than decade-old instrumentality connected the books that allows students to enactment successful sex-segregated schoolhouse programs, including connected sports teams, and usage bathrooms and different facilities that align with their sex identity.
Trump criticized the information of a transgender precocious schoolhouse student-athlete who won titles successful the California track-and-field championships past month. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon wrote successful a missive aft the conscionable that the sports assemblage moving the last violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution by allowing trans girls to vie against different pistillate athletes.
The national Education Department earlier this twelvemonth launched an probe into California's policies allowing athletes to vie connected sports teams accordant with their sex identity. The bureau said past period that the policies interruption Title IX, and it gave the authorities 10 days to hold to alteration them. But the authorities this week refused.
Trump besides sparred with Maine's Democratic politician implicit the state's transgender-athlete policies. Gov. Janet Mills told the president successful February, "We'll spot you successful court," implicit his threats to propulsion backing to the authorities implicit the issue. His medication filed a suit successful April alleging Maine violated Title IX by allowing trans girls and women to vie against different pistillate athletes.
Meantime, connected his podcast successful March, Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., angered immoderate enactment allies erstwhile helium questioned the fairness of trans girls competing successful girls sports. GOP critics person called connected the politician to backmost a ban, saying his remarks bash not quadrate with his actions.
The contented is portion of a nationwide conflict implicit the rights of transgender younker successful which states person constricted transgender girls from participating connected girls sports teams, barred gender-affirming surgeries for minors and required parents to beryllium notified if a kid changes their pronouns astatine school. More than 2 twelve states person laws barring transgender women and girls from participating successful definite sports competitions. Some of the policies person been blocked successful court.
Trump signed an enforcement bid successful February aimed astatine barring trans girls and women from participating connected sports teams accordant with their sex identity.
Proponents of a ban, including the blimpish California Family Council, accidental it would reconstruct fairness successful diversion competitions. But opponents, including the LGBTQ+ advocacy radical Equality California, accidental bans are an onslaught connected transgender youth.
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