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California is officially in Standoff with President Donald Trump’s administration in the fight to “save women’s sports.”
The state rejected the Trump administrator’s proposal to comply with section IX on Monday, and now a reference to the US Ministry of Justice is likely. DOJ already launched a lawsuit against the state Maine in April for similar despite.
The tension between the state and Trump increased at the end of May, before the state’s course and field championship, which saw a trans athlete taking first place in two girls’ events. Trump even sent two long truths social positions that addressed the girls’ track and field controvers under warnings to Newsom.
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Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-California, is well aware of the anxiety his voters have been exposed to in the middle of it. Prior to the course and field championships, several others had confirmed controversial events involving trans athletes competing in girls’ high school volleyball, basketball and cross-country skiing.
“We have to look absolutely what is going on in our schools,” Kiley said.
“We see in many of these cases that in some cases there was influence within the school system, ultimately having an impact on the young person’s thinking,” he added, in terms of how a male athlete could have ended up competing in girls’ sports in the midst of the wave of events in his state.
In addition, the presence of these trans athletes has pushed many of the state’s female athletes to speak or protest. Several athletes had shirts reading “Protect Girls Sports” or “Save Girls Sports” on Postseason Track meet this last spring, and Stone Ridge Christian High School’s Girls’ Volleyball Team even lost an endgame for a team with a trans athlete last fall.
“I think it made a big difference. I think the students athletes themselves are the most powerful voice to get the change we are now starting to see,” Kiley said.
California Interscholastic Federation (CIF), the governing body of high school sports in the state, acknowledged that its officials made athletes who wore “Protect Girls Sports” jerseys during a fall season meeting in early May.
“Per CIF Southern Section Playoff Bulletin, all athletes must be dressed in proper, school-issued, track uniforms. Student athletes were asked to comply with this while in the field on-field, when they were wearing a mentioned shirts over their school-issued uniform,” CIF said in a statement previously delivered to Pakinomist Digital.
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However, several girls’ athletes who competed at the event former Pakinomist Digital said that other athletes who had non-school issued shirts without activist messages, such as college shirts, did not receive the same orders.
Kiley sided with the female athletes in this debate.
“It’s absolutely scandalous! I mean to say, we will not only deprive them of the opportunity to compete in a reasonable environment, but now we will remove their voice to actually advocate for justice. It adds insult to damage and probably raises first change questions,” Kiley said.
The question also manifested itself in California’s State Universities last fall when San Jose State University came under a national microscope to give Trans Athlete Blaire Fleming the opportunity to compete for women’s volleyball team.
Since California has tax payer -financed institutions, Kiley hopes that the university will be held “responsible” and wants to see a similar result as the one recently made by the University of Pennsylvania, who agreed to resign to all women’s posts earned by former Trans Swimmer Lia Thomas, apologizing for all the women who had to compete with Thomas.
“It is scandalous that this one university believes it can compromise the integrity of the university competition for all students athletes,” Kiley said. SJSU is currently under an ongoing title IX study of the US Ministry of Education.
As the rest of the state faces potential trial from DOJ on the question, Kiley is anxious about the possibility of the state losing federal funding and hoping it won’t “come to it.” Other large GOP numbers in the state have also joined his case.
State representatives James Gallagher and Kate Sanchez published statements condemning California’s Department of Education and Head of Government Gavin Newsom Monday.
Gallagher said the question of having trans athletes in girls’ sports boiled down to justice.
“California continues to push the dangerous insanity by letting men compete in women’s sports,” he said. “This is about justice, security and the rule of law. Superintendent (Tony) Thurmond and Governor Newsom jeopardize school sports programs throughout the state, all to reassure a radical agenda and promote their political careers.”
Sanchez added, the “Newsoms Department of Education Obviously Title IX” and “doubled.”
“They refuse to protect girls’ sports for biological girls. It is a shocking violation of civil rights that can cost California billions in federal funding of education.”
Mark Trammell, CEO of the Center for American Liberty, made a statement to Pakinomist Digital, which addressed the state’s conflict.
“California can ‘disagree’, all it wants, but it won’t make the state’s actions miraculously legal. The law is clear, title IX requires equal opportunities for women and girls. California must comply with federal law and cease its discriminatory practice,” Trammell said.
