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President Donald Trump's Department of Education plans to investigate California's nationalist schoolhouse diversion association, the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF), for not complying with his enforcement bid to prohibition transgender athletes from girls sports.
The California Family Council (CFC) praised the decision.
"The California Family Council celebrates the U.S. Department of Education’s determination to motorboat a Title IX probe into the CIF for its relation successful allowing males to vie successful girls sports," the connection said.
"For excessively long, CIF has turned a unsighted oculus to the concerns of pistillate athletes, parents and coaches, prioritizing extremist sex ideology implicit fairness, information and the integrity of women’s athletics. This probe is simply a important measurement toward restoring justness successful precocious schoolhouse sports."
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CFC Outreach Director Sophia Lorey said the Trump administration's involution has made her outcry "tears of joy."
"As a four-year CIF varsity jock and a three-year captain, I person been warring for each girls to person the aforesaid diversion opportunities I had," Lorey said. "CIF’s policies person undermined decades of hard-fought victories for pistillate athletes, and it’s clip for them to reply for the harm they’ve caused. CIF has ignored these injustices for excessively long, and we anticipation this probe volition yet unit them to enactment the information and fairness of girls implicit the feelings of confused boys."
Lorey has advocated for girls affected by transgender jock inclusion successful California for 3 years.
Lorey intervened astatine Martin Luther King High School successful Riverside, California, successful the fall, erstwhile a nationalist contention erupted implicit a transgender jock who took a varsity spot from a girls' cross-country runner.
That girl, Taylor Starling, past took matters into her ain hands erstwhile she and teammate Kaitlyn Slavin made T-shirts that said "Save GIrls Sports" and started wearing them to school. They past filed a suit against the schoolhouse territory erstwhile administrators allegedly scolded them for wearing the shirts and compared them to swastikas.
Starling's father, Ryan Starling, expressed his gratitude to the Trump medication for taking enactment to analyse the state's defiance of the caller enforcement order.
"Our household can’t convey President Trump enough. We are truthful excited to spot communal consciousness prevailing. This has been a long-fought conflict for truthful galore radical connected truthful galore fronts. The conflict is not implicit successful the authorities of California, but each time we are moving a measurement person due to the fact that of truthful galore courageous radical similar Taylor and Kaitlyn," Ryan Starling told Fox News Digital.
Even schoolhouse administrators who enactment wrong the jurisdiction of the CIF are celebrating the DOE's investigation.
Chino Unified School Board President Sonja Shaw told Fox News Digital she is calling for consequences for each the institutions that person allowed transgender athletes to enactment successful girls sports.
"As a parent of 2 CIF athletes, schoolhouse committee president and advocator for children, I person seen firsthand the devastating interaction of these policies. Girls are being pushed aside, their information is compromised and their opportunities are being stolen," Shaw said.
"This probe is simply a captious measurement successful the close direction, but we request real, decisive action. CIF — and immoderate entity that violates Title IX — indispensable look consequences, including the withdrawal of funding.
"We warned you, CIF. Now, look the consequences."
Amber French, a women's swimmer astatine California Baptist University, argued the CIF allowing transgender athletes to vie with girls volition deprive biologic pistillate athletes of assemblage opportunities and jeopardizes their safety.
"If you let males to vie successful pistillate sports, little females volition person the accidental to spell to CIF and aquatics successful beforehand of assemblage coaches to get recruited," French told Fox News Digital. "Allowing males who bash not privation to vie against their enactment vie successful pistillate races takes distant from each the hard-working pistillate athletes. There are abstracted categories for a reason.
"This probe is the archetypal measurement to support the integrity, information and opportunities of pistillate sports."
The CIF told Fox News Digital it has been notified of the forthcoming investigation.
"While the CIF has been notified of the investigation, we bash not remark connected pending investigations," a CIF spokesperson said.
Trump's DOE volition besides beryllium investigating Minnesota's precocious schoolhouse athletics relation for refusing to comply with the enforcement order.
The DOE is besides investigating San Jose State University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association for abstracted incidents involving transgender athletes competing connected a women's oregon girls sports team.
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