Trump admin probes NY school for defying federal order banning transgender athletes in girls sports

Sedang Trending 2 bulan yang lalu

The Trump management launched an investigation into an upstate New York schoolhouse district for outwardly defying a national bid barring transgender athletes from competing successful girls sports.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said Tuesday nan management would probe Saratoga Springs for allegedly discriminating against girls by allowing biologic boys to play girls sports and usage girls’ locker rooms.

“The Trump Administration has been unrelenting successful our effort to guarantee that women and girls’ acquisition experiences are not marred by activity discrimination,” McMahon said. “It is simply a clear usurpation of national civilian authorities law, and of women’s dignity, to let males to participate successful female-sports and inhabit female-only friendly facilities.”

U.S. Ambassador-Designate to nan United Nations Elise Stefanik speaks astatine ADL Never Is Now astatine Javits Center connected March 03, 2025 successful New York City. Rep. Elise Stefanik is calling for a national probe against nan Saratoga Springs City Board of Education for violating President Trump’s executive bid banning trans athletes from competing successful girls sports. Getty Images for Anti-Defamation League

McMahon claimed nan territory is violating Title IX of nan national civilian authorities law, which protects against sex-based favoritism successful schools and programs that person national funding.

“Women fought for decades to unafraid Title IX protections, only to person these protections subverted and betrayed by those who prioritize a distorted ideology complete fairness, dignity, and safety,” McMahon.

President Trump besides issued an executive bid successful January calling for “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.”

The probe comes astatine nan behest of Rep. Elise Stefanik, who represents an upstate territory that includes Saratoga Springs. The congresswoman had blasted nan territory for approving a solution called “Affirming Our Support for Every Student” that declared transgender students person nan “right to usage accommodation and partake successful activities and sports accordant pinch their gender identity.”

Stefanik past period sent Education Secretary Linda McMahon a missive requesting an investigation of nan schoolhouse territory for  allegedly discriminating against girls by allowing biologic boys who place arsenic transgender to compete against them aliases stock their locker rooms.

Stefanik, who is eying a tally for politician adjacent year, applauded nan White House and McMahon ‘s intervention.

“After my beardown nationalist advocacy, I want to convey President Donald Trump and Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon for swiftly opening a general investigation into nan Saratoga Springs City School District for their nonaccomplishment to uphold Title IX protections for women and girls successful sports,” Stefanik said.

Saratoga Springs School DistrictThe schoolhouse territory passed an “Affirming Our Support for Every Student” solution giving transgender students nan “right to usage accommodation and partake successful activities and sports accordant pinch their gender identity.” Google Maps

“The Saratoga Springs School Board’s solution allowing biologic males to participate successful girls’ sports and entree girls’ locker rooms is simply a blatant usurpation of national rule nether Title IX and an affront to nan advancement generations of women person fought to achieve,” she added.

The US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights sent a missive to nan Saratoga Springs Superintendent Michael Patton notifying him of nan probe.

The section told nan schoolhouse territory to supply documents for each its written policies and procedures successful effect for nan existent schoolhouse twelvemonth “regardarding nan information of antheral student athletes connected girls’ diversion teams and/or their entree to girls’ locker rooms.”

The territory was besides asked to move complete immoderate archiving of inquiries, complaints aliases requested revisions to nan policies aliases procedures.

The section besides asked to move complete girls diversion teams’ rosters, and identifying immoderate antheral participants connected nan rosters