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California’s law lawyer Rob Bonta faces an investigation by the Ministry of Justice over his state’s laws, which allows transnry athletes in girls sports.
DOJ announced the investigation on Wednesday, one day after President Donald Trump threatened to withdraw funding from the state for having allowed a trans -athlete to compete in a girls course and field championship.
Bonta’s office responded to the recent pressure on him and the state of California over the question in a statement to Pakinomist Digital.
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“We remain obliged to defend and maintain California’s laws and all additional laws that ensure that students, including transient students, are free of discrimination and harassment. We will continue to monitor Trump administration’s actions in this space,” the statement states.
DOJ’s notice of its investigation against the state cited a lawsuit that includes Bonta as defendant. The trial, filed by the families of two girls at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, claims that the school’s cross-country skiing team fell an athlete from her varsity-place in favor of a trans athlete and that school administrators compared their “Save Girls Sports” t-shirts with swastikas, Pakinomist Digital has reported in the past.
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The case, which was filed in November, seeks to challenge the state’s current law, which allows trans athletes to compete as girls who have been in place since 2014. The trial expanded an accused list to include Bonta 1 February.
Just days later, after Trump signed “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order 5 February, the US Ministry of Education launched a study of California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) to openly tread the order.
Now the tension in the state is turning on to get to the head of the weekend on Girls Track and Field State Championship.
CIF has already made several rule changes that cater to girls who would be displaced by the trans athlete, AB Hernandez from Jurupa Valley High School. The changes include giving medals to any “biological female” competitors who would have earned a podium place if not for Hernandez placing in front of them.
Still, many families and activists speak against CIF to let the situation continue at all, and the Trump administration has given no indication that the rule changes will satisfy its demands on the question.
