Trump Education Department launches Title IX probes into 2 blue states allegedly ignoring trans athlete order

The United States Department of Education has launched Title IX investigations into diversion associations successful California and Minnesota aft they said they would disregard President Donald Trump's enforcement bid to support transgender athletes retired of girls and women's sports.

The Minnesota State High School League announced Thursday it volition proceed to let transgender athletes to vie against girls contempt Trump's enforcement bid to probibit them from doing so.

That came conscionable days aft the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) said it volition proceed to travel the state's instrumentality that allows athletes to enactment arsenic whichever sex they place as.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM

"The Minnesota State High School League and the California Interscholastic Federation are escaped to prosecute successful each the meaningless virtue-signaling that they want, but astatine the extremity of the time they indispensable abide by national law," said Craig Trainor, acting adjunct caput for civilian rights. 

"(The Office of Civil Rights') Chicago and San Francisco determination offices volition behaviour directed investigations into some organizations to guarantee that pistillate athletes successful these states are treated with the dignity, respect and equality that the Trump medication demands. I would punctual these organizations that past does not look kindly connected entities and states that actively opposed the enforcement of national civilian rights laws that support women and girls from favoritism and harassment."

The Department of Education added that authorities laws bash not override national anti-discrimination laws, truthful the associations are taxable to investigations.

Trump signed the enforcement bid connected National Girls and Women successful Sports Day, which celebrates pistillate athletes successful women’s sports and those committed to providing adjacent entree to sports for each females.

The bid states that "it is the argumentation of the United States to rescind each funds from acquisition programs that deprive women and girls of just diversion opportunities" and to instrumentality "all due enactment to affirmatively support all-female diversion opportunities and all-female locker rooms and thereby supply the adjacent accidental guaranteed by Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972."

Prior to Trump signing the bid Wednesday, White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said portion of the information down Trump's enforcement bid would beryllium to make a "pressure campaign" for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and NCAA to travel and forestall transgender athletes from competing successful women's sports. 

In effect to Trump's order, the NCAA changed its policy, successful spot since 2010, to disallow transgender athletes from competing against women, requiring them to vie based connected their commencement gender.

During Trump's ceremonial astatine the White House to motion the enforcement order, helium announced that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem volition prohibit immoderate transgender athletes attempting to vie arsenic women from entering the state for the Olympics successful 2028. 

The United Nations released survey findings saying astir 900 biologic females person fallen abbreviated of winning medals due to the fact that they mislaid to transgender athletes.

Minnesota, governed by Kamala Harris' moving mate, Tim Walz, was location to a Supreme Court lawsuit successful which a transgender powerlifter was continuing successful a combat to vie against biologic women.

Fox News' Jackson Thompson and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Follow Fox News Digital’s sports sum connected X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.