The United States Department of Education has launched Title IX investigations on athletic associations in California and Minnesota after they said they would ignore the executive order of President Donald Trump to keep transgender athletes out of girls and women’s sports.
He Minnesota state high school league Announced on Thursday that will continue allowing transgender athletes to compete against girls despite Trump’s executive order to prove them to do so.
That occurred a few days after the California Interest Federation (CIF) said it will continue to follow the State Law that allows athletes to participate as any gender that are identified.
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“The Minnesota State High School League and the California Interest Federation are free to participate in the entire signage of meaningless virtue they want, but at the end of the day they must comply with the federal law,” said Craig Trainor, secretary Interim civil rights assistant.
“(The Office of Civil Rights’) The regional offices of Chicago and San Francisco will carry out research aimed at both organizations to ensure that female athletes in these states are treated with the dignity, respect and equality required by the Trump administration. I will remember To these organizations that history does not seem kind in the entities and states that actively oppose the application of federal civil rights laws that protect women and girls from discrimination and harassment. “
The Department of Education added that state laws do not cancel federal laws against discrimination, so associations are subject to investigations.
Trump signed the executive order on national girls and women on Sports Day, which celebrates women’s athletes in women’s sports and those who promised to provide equal access to sports for all women.
President Donald Trump signs the executive order of No Men In Women’s Sports in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 5, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)
The order establishes that “it is the policy of the United States to terminate all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities” and take “all appropriate measures to affirmatively protect athletic and female opportunities and the female locker.
Before Trump signed the order on Wednesday, the White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said that part of the motivation behind Trump’s executive order would be to create a “pressure campaign” for the International Olympic Committee (COI ) and the NCAA to continue and prevent transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports.
In response to Trump’s order, the NCAA changed its policy, instead since 2010, to reject the transgender athletes of competing against women, which demanded them to compete according to their kind of birth.
During the Trump ceremony at the White House to sign the executive order, he announced that the Secretary of National Security Kristi Noem It will prohibit any transgender athlete who tries to compete as women to enter the country for the Olympic Games in 2028.
Former President Donald Trump joins on stage by Riley Gaines at the conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, Texas, on August 6, 2022. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
He United Nations The findings of the study published saying that almost 900 biological females have not been winning medals because they lost to transgender athletes.
Minnesota, governed by Kamala Harris Formula, Tim Walz, was home to the Supreme Court in which a transgender weightlifter He continued in a struggle to compete against biological women.
