Donald Trump takes action against California after state refused to ban trans athletes from women’s sports
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The Trump administration is suing the California Department of Education and California Interscholastic Federation after the state continued to allow transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports.
The president signed an executive order in February ‘keeping men out of women’s sports’ and banning trans athletes from competing in women’s divisions.
However, trans athletes have continued to compete in the state, prompting a previous federal Title IX investigation.
The lawsuit comes after California on Monday formally refused to comply with a demand from the Trump administration to sign a proposed resolution agreement on the issue.
Trump has threatened to withhold federal funding from the state and Education Secretary Linda McMahon said on X that California would ‘be hearing from’ Attorney General Pam Bondi after learning of the resolution agreement rejection.
The Trump administration believes that California is violating Title IX by allowing trans athletes to compete in women’s sports, and called in a June 25 notice for the state to ‘adopt biology-based definitions of the words ‘male’ and ‘female.”
The Trump administration is suing California in the latest development in their trans sports war
While Trump has made the issue of trans athletes in women’s sports a core issue of his second campaign, California has continued to flout federal demands under Gov. Gavin Newsom.
There was fierce backlash in the state when AB Hernandez, a biological male, claimed gold in the high jump and triple jump at the California Interscholastic Federation state finals at the end of May.
The junior from Jurupa Valley High School also won a triple jump competition by nearly three feet at the Roosevelt International in California back in March.
Hernandez’s participation in women’s sports has drawn furious protests from parents.
There was also an instance of a trans high school basketball player dominating in the women’s division back in February – after Trump had signed his order banning trans athletes from women’s sports.
However, the athlete did not appear in their team’s playoff game later that month amid protests from some parents.
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