The United States Department of Education opened on Monday an investigation of the title IX in the Tumwater School District (TSD) in the Washington state for a widely publicized incident that involves a girl allegedly punished for refusing to play a basketball game against a trans athlete.
It is one of the first incidents of a school district that prohibits the trans athletes of girls’ sports, which meets the executive order of “No Men in Women’s Sports” by President Donald Trump, while the State as a whole chooses to challenge it.
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“Many of us can disagree with the executive order, but we, as members of the School Board, are trapped between a rock and a difficult place,” said TSD Board Jill Adams. “Support different points of view, support different ways of life, but it is difficult. I am caught between, not a rock, but a rock and a hard surface.”
The members of the Board cited the recent incident that involved Staudt and the national reaction, in their decision to ban trans athletes and comply with the Trump order.
Even so, the Trump administration is still doing its diligence due to investigating the incident anyway after civil rights complaint was filed.
“The directed investigations of OCR of educational institutions, State Education Boards, Interest Associations and School Districts show that the Trump Department of Education will strongly fulfill Title IX to ensure that men stop competing in women’s sports,” said Craig Trainor, assistant secretary of civil rights. “If Washington wants to continue receiving federal funds from the department, you have to follow the Federal Law.”
The complaint alleged that the district investigated the 15 -year -old Staudt for “damaging” an opponent and violating district policies against bullying and harassment on February 7.
According to the document, before the game, Staudt asked school’s athletics director and director if the player was a biological man. Then, the administrators allegedly confirmed that they had been notified that the player was transgender, but denied that they removed the player.
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Staudt took off the game. Then, according to the document, a TSD employee supposedly faced Staudt’s younger brother for taking a video of the game, saying: “You better think twice about what you are doing right now.”
Staudt and his mother, Aimee, discussed how their refusal to play against a biological man lit a fire storm with the Tumwater school district During a “Fox & Friends” Interview last week.
“They [the school district] He could have avoided this to happen, “Aimee told Steve Doucy on Thursday:” They certainly knew that there was going to be this situation, and they had a meeting, the director, the Superintendent and the sports director to discuss the fact that this was a potential situation that arose. “
Aimee believes that if the families had been notified of the situation in advance and gave the players the option to sit down on the game, it could have thrown a different result.
“But they didn’t do that,” he said. “They put the children in the place, and my daughter was the one who really stood in this situation, and … she was exposed … it was horrible as they handled.”
Meanwhile, the Trans athlete, Andi Rooks, appeared with the athlete’s father in the YouTube series “[un]Divided with Brandie Kruse“To address the problem.
“I never had a problem until this game, and my goal was never to make anyone feel uncomfortable in any way, and I didn’t even realize that Frances had a problem until they shouted in the game,” Rooks said. “If she had had a conversation with me before the game, I would have been left out. The last thing I want to do is bother someone.”
Washington is one of the many blue states that has refused to comply with Trump’s executive order, since Wiaa’s policy establishes that each athlete will participate in programs “consisting of their gender identity or the most expressed gender consistently”, and there is not even any medical or legal requirement. Laws have been introduced that would prohibit transgender girls from participating in children’s and women sports have been introduced but not approved.
Superintendent of Public Instruction of Washington Chris Reykdal spoke in defense of Transgender athletes In Girls’ Sports in a direction last week, claiming that it was “inaccurate” to say that there are only two genres. Reykdal insisted that Trump does not have authority as president to issue a prohibition of trans athletes in girls sports, but admitted that the United States Congress does.
“Until Congress changes the law or our state legislature changes the law, we will follow the current law and the current civil rights framework of this State, and that is what we tell us to do,” said Reykdal.
The Department of Education is also investigating the sports associations of High School in California, Minnesota, Massachusetts and Maine for challenging Trump’s order.
