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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Trump Administration has announced a caller suit against California's Department of Education and the California Interscholastic Federation.
The United States Department of Justice says the authorities is violating Title IX by allowing transgender girls to vie successful girls' sports.
This each comes aft a transgender jock from Southern California competed successful a title contention successful Clovis earlier this summer.
"We've made it precise clear. Only women successful women's sports nether Title IX," United States Attorney General Pam Bondi said successful a video released to social media connected Wednesday.
Bondi appeared alongside United States Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. The 2 spoke concisely successful the video astir the administration's presumption of the lawsuit, and stressed the ongoing litigation successful different states with akin laws arsenic California.
This is present conscionable the latest determination that's escalating the back-and-forth conflict betwixt the Republican Trump medication and California's Democratic enactment implicit transgender athletes successful the Golden State.
The suit alleges California is successful usurpation of Title IX. It says the authorities instrumentality that allows trans girls to vie successful girls' sports denies cisgender girls adjacent and just acquisition and diversion opportunities.
The contented has been gathering for months aft a 16-year-old transgender girl, AB Hernandez, competed astatine the CIF championships earlier this summertime successful Clovis. Hernandez walked distant with 2 first-place medals and 1 second-place medal.
This suit besides comes aft Trump threatened to propulsion national wealth from the authorities if it allowed Hernandez to compete. The CIF allowed her to race, but did alteration the rules, allowing the adjacent highest scoring cisgender miss to besides person the aforesaid medals arsenic Hernandez.
Clovis Mayor Pro Tem Diane Pearce was 1 of the astir vocal section leaders successful absorption of transgender athletes similar Hernandez from competing successful girls' sports up of the competition. She welcomes the suit and says she hopes it forces California to alteration authorities law.
"We besides knew that the Trump medication had been taking enactment against different states that were besides successful usurpation of Title IX successful allowing biologic boys to vie against girls, and truthful we benignant of saw an accidental to say, hey, implicit here, we request your attention," Pearce said.
However, Fresno Democratic Congressman Jim Costa says the Trump medication is over-reaching, and this suit is simply a misinterpretation of what Title IX was formed to do. He says the law's intent was to guarantee adjacent backing for some men and women's sports.
"I deliberation that the information of the substance is that states should beryllium capable to marque their determinations successful this case. But it is evident the president feels it's a governmental contented that works to his advantage, and truthful they'll proceed to prosecute it," Costa said.
At this constituent it's not wide however the CIF and the authorities Department of Education volition respond to the lawsuit.
