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A demand filed by two girls high school athletes about a controversy that involves a Trans athlete in California has partially survived the motions to dismiss.
Taylor Starling and Kaitlyn Slavin, field corridors through the country of girls at Martin Luther King high school in Riverside, California, filed the demand in November 2024. They said that a transgender athlete took the university place of Starling and faced for using shirts that said “Save Girls Sports” in the protest. The demand alleges that Martin Luther King administrators compared the shirts with the “swastika.”
The defendants are the Unified School District of Riverside (RUSD), and included the Attorney General of California Rob Bonta and the Superintendent of Public State Instruction Tony Thurmond. But Bonta and Thrumonds were fired from the charges in the ruling.
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Ryan and Taylor Starling by Riverside, California (Courtesy of Taylor Starling)
The US District Judge Sunshine Sykes, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden, denied the school district commitment to dismiss the claim of title IX of the plaintiffs based on intentional discrimination. However, Sykes also ruled in favor of the school district argument that students had not declared claims for violations of title IX.
Sykes confirmed the position of the plaintiffs to pursue monetary damage, but ruled out a court order against the school to retire to the trans athlete from the team, because the athlete has already graduated.
The families of Starling, Slavin and his lawyer from the firm Defensores de Faith & Freedom, see the recent ruling as a victory.
“I think the fight is far from finishing, but it is definitely a step in the right direction,” said Kaitlyn Slavin’s father, Dan Slavin, Pak Gazette Digital.
Ryan Starling, father of Taylor Starling, said the demand has joined his family and has built solidarity with other families in the area.
“He somehow gathered our families, and brought together many other families,” Starling said.
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Both Starling and Slavin have continued to attend Martin Luther King High School while the demand has continued.
“It was a bit uncomfortable, well, much uncomfortable at the beginning of last year … So those first weeks were quite intense,” said Dan Slavin. “They have so many friends there that it has not had a great effect on them this year. It is always a bit uncomfortable when you see administrators probably, but they don’t talk much about that.”
Ryan Starling added that teachers silently support their daughters, despite school policy.
“There have been many teachers such as, in the Low, let’s know, ‘he hears, we support ourselves,” he said.
Your lawyer, Juliane Fleischer, will seek to obtain more from the past motions of the case to dismiss. Sykes ruled that the plaintiffs did not attempt to explain how a claim of equal treatment of title IX applies and will allow them to amend those statements.
“It allows us to reinforce our complaint, and that is something we hope to do, just to really aim the harmful politics that California and that Riverside has in place that they have signed up for Taylor and Kaitlyn and many other female athletes,” Fleischer said.
“The agreement can certainly be discussed, but at this point it is a great question to see what the school district is willing.”
The famine at the center of this demand have been at the center of a broader cultural movement in their county on the issue of trans athletes in women’s sports.
Last year, after claiming that school administrators compared their shirts with the swastika, girls began using them every Wednesday, and other students of the school began to join. The administrators allegedly tried to punish the students who carried the shirts, putting them in detention.
But finally, the school stopped punishing the students for using the shirts, and continued to wear every Wednesday.
The Starling and Slavin families have also offered the council to families in a neighboring school, Jurupa Valley High School, to present their own complaint against the Unified School District of Jurupa (Jusd) about a separate situation that involves a transgender volleyball player.
Jusd Hadeel Hazameh and Alyssa McPherson students previously told Pak Gazette Digital that Starling and Slavin were inspirations for them by deciding to file a demand on their situation.
“There was a lot of fear with them from the beginning,” said Ryan Starling about Hazameh and McPherson. “That requires courage … just keep bold. The school districts will not listen to you, all they hear is when you file a demand.”
Dan Slavin added: “We talked to them and their feelings of being brain washing … It was really good to hear that our girls inspired them, and I hope it is a drip effect for everyone. I hope those girls in Jurupa Valley now inspire other people.”
Pak Gazette Digital has communicated with the Jusd to comment.
