The Ministry of Justice followed a threat to continue the California public school system, taking legal action on Wednesday in a case involving a transgender secondary athlete.
The deposit in the California central district targets a pair of defendants, California Department of Education and California Interscholastic Federation.
The problem is the participation of transgender girls in sports for girls, specifically focused on a 16 -year -old named Ab Hernandez who won several medals in the state championship. Hernandez, a organic man, won the high jump and the triple jump and finished second in long jump.
The Division of Civil Rights of the Ministry of Justice sent a letter to the CIF at the beginning of June, saying that allowing the athletes Trans to compete with those which correspond to their gender identity equivalent to a violation of the 14th amendment, which guarantees equal protection.
A CIF regulation allows athletes to compete with girls, regardless of the genre listed in the academic file of a student.
On June 25, California Department of Education rejected a letter of discovery and proposed the resolution agreement of the civil rights office of the US Ministry of Education, which led to the action of the DoJ.
“These discriminatory policies and practices ignore the undeniable biological differences between boys and girls, in favor of a” amorphous gender identity “,” said the Doj in his file on Wednesday. “The results of these illegal policies are struck: the girls are displaced by the catwalks, have denied prices and miss critical visibility for scholarships and the recognition of colleges.”
The DoJ also used the own position of the governor of California Gavin Newsom against the CIF, writing: “In the words of the Governor of California, it is” deeply unfair “for girls to compete with boys”.
The Attorney General Pam Bondi said in an article on X (Twitter) that “Californian officials did not protect girls from the rules of the game and in the locker rooms”.
A New York Times survey earlier this year revealed that 79% of respondents do not want organic men or boys to compete for female or girls sports.
On February 5, Trump signed an executive decree to protect women’s sports and prevent organic men.
State representatives were prepared to go back to Hernandez’s participation in state competition, which took the form of events and even a flying plane a banner which read “No Boys in Girls Sports”. The CIF decided that Hernandez would share the podium with the competitors she beat.
For example, in the triple jump, Hernandez shared first place with Kira Gant Hatcher. There was equality of three between Hernandez and two Cisgenres athletes in the high jump.
President Donald Trump has kept transgender women out of competitions for girls and women an objective of his second administration.
As for the involvement of Newsom, his press office reacted in an article on X which emphasized Newsom was not appointed defendant in the trial.
“The real facts: the California Department of Education (CDE) and the CIF are both independent * of the administrator of Newsom, and they follow the law of the existing state – a law adopted in 2013, signed by Governor Jerry Brown, and in accordance with 21 other states”, indicates the post.
“No court has adopted the interpretation of the title IX which is advanced by the administrator Trump, and neither the governor, nor them, do not take a magic wand and do not abandon him – unlike Donald Trump, California follows the law, not personal opinions.”
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