The Trump administration sued California Wednesday after a Department of Education probe found the state had discriminated against women by “allowing males in girls’ sports and intimate spaces.”
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division alleged that the California Department of Education (CDE) and California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) violated Title IX and forced girls to be “displaced from podiums, denied awards, and miss out on critical visibility for scholarships and recognition,” according to the complaint filed in Los Angeles federal court.
“This discrimination is not only illegal and unfair but also demeaning, signaling to girls that their opportunities and achievements are secondary to accommodating boys,” the filing stated.
“It erodes the integrity of girls’ sports, diminishes their competitive experience, and undermines the very purpose of Title IX: to provide equal access to educational benefits, including interscholastic athletics.”
The complaint demanded a court order barring the policies, compensation for “female athletes who have been denied equal athletic opportunities … including correcting past athletics records” and a requirement that California turn in “regular compliance reports” for at least the next five years.
The DOJ’s complaint noted that California’s compliance was necessary since the $44.3 billion in federal funding the state received this fiscal year was conditioned upon compliance with Title IX.
The 1972 law mandates equal opportunities regardless of sex in schools receiving federal funds.
The suit comes after transgender athlete Lia Thomas was stripped of University of Pennsylvania swimming titles after the Ivy League school bowed to pressure from the Trump administration.
Penn also agreed to issue formal apologies to every biological female competitor who lost out to a transgender competitor, following an Education Department probe of the university.
A similar investigation led to CIF being ordered by July 7 to “restore to female athletes all individual records, titles, and awards misappropriated by male athletes competing in female competitions” — or face “imminent enforcement action.” --->READ MORE HERE
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| Breccan F. Thies / The Federalist |
The Trump administration has responded to California’s obstinately forcing men into women’s sports with a Title IX lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice.
The Department of Education has already found the California Department of Education (CDE) and California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) in violation of Title IX, but the entities have refused to comply with federal civil rights law in order to ensure the state can harm as many women as possible.
According to the DOJ, the CDE has authority over the CIF, which oversees more than 750,000 student-athletes and 1.8 million students between the 9th and 12th grades.
“The Governor of California has previously admitted that it is ‘deeply unfair’ to force women and girls to compete with men and boys in competitive sports,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a Wednesday press release announcing the lawsuit. “But not only is it ‘deeply unfair,’ it is also illegal under federal law. This Department of Justice will continue its fight to protect equal opportunities for women and girls in sports.”
California allows men to compete in women’s sports and intrude on women’s private facilities like restrooms and locker rooms, forcing females to undress in front of males. Since the Trump administration salvaged Title IX from the Biden administration’s predatory gender theory goals through executive orders, as well as a favorable court opinion, California is in direct contravention of Title IX for its “illegal sex discrimination against female student athletes,” the Department of Justice said.
“The results of these illegal policies are stark: girls are displaced from podiums, denied awards, and miss out on critical visibility for college scholarships and recognition,” the DOJ lawsuit states, adding that the policies “eviscerate equal athletic opportunities for girls … [and] they also require girls to share intimate spaces, such as locker rooms, with boys, causing a hostile educational environment that denies girls educational opportunities.” --->READ MORE HERE
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