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Attorney General Pam Bondi and the US Department of Justice have turned their eye west in President Donald Trump’s struggle to counter a wave of trans athletes competing in girls’ high school sports.
DOJ announced a study of California’s high school sports league, CIF and California’s legal lawyer Rob Bonta, to determine if the state has violated title IX by enabling Trans athletes to compete in girls’ sports since 2014.
“Title IX is available to protect women and girls in education. It is perverse to allow men to compete against girls, invade their private space and take their trophies,” said assistant lawyer for civil rights Harmet K. Dhillon in a statement. “This department will aggressively defend women’s hard fought rights to equal educational opportunities.”
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California High School Girls’ Athletes Wear ‘Protect Girls Sports’ Shirts In an autumn track meet at Yorba Linda High School on Saturday, May 10, 2025. (Courtesy of Reese Hogan)
The Office of United States Attorney Bill Essayli, which previously served as California’s state legislator and fought on the ground to support families opposing trans athletes in girls’ sports, is also involved in the investigation.
“The law is clear: Discrimination on the basis of sex is illegal and immoral,” said US lawyer Bill Essayli. “My office and the rest of the Ministry of Justice will work tirelessly to protect girls’ sports and stop all – public officials included – from violating women’s civil rights.”
The message quotes a current trial filed by the families of two girls’ high school athletes by Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California. The message did not identify the plaintiffs by name.
The lawsuit filed by the families to Taylor Starling and Kaitlyn Slavin claimed that the school’s cross-country team fell Starling from her varsity place in favor of a trans athlete and that school administrators compared their “Save Girls Sports” T-shirts to Swastikas, Pakinomist has digital reported previously.
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Starling even testified to the landlord who supported a few bills that would have turned California’s girls’ sports policy on April 1. Both bills failed to pass because of opposition from the majority of the Democrat. But now the trial is quoted in a federal investigation.
Trump’s Ministry of Justice has already proved willing to sue a state for having allowed Trans athletes to compete in girls’ sports. Bondi announced a lawsuit against Maine on April 16 after weeks of warnings and tensions that included several federal financing breaks that have been restored, and a public spit between Trump and Governor Janet Mills.
Starling’s father, Ryan Starling, told former Pakinomist Digital that he supported Trump’s financing cutting to Maine and would support similar sanctions against his state to allow trans athletes in girls’ sports.
“Good,” Ryan Starling said in response to seeing the situation in Maine, knowing that the same thing could soon play out in his state. “It’s the only thing they answer is when their financing is cut and when it actually affects their pocketbooks, it’s the only thing that makes it change.
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The situation in Maine was strongly asked by news of a trans athlete who won a girls ‘polevel competition after previously competing in the boys’ category.
Now California faces a potentially similar result in its state freedom of freedom.
The coming girls ‘state -titelet meeting contains a trans athlete that competes in girls’ long jump and triple jumps. The athlete, AB Hernandez from the Jurupa Valley High School, has so far dominated the girls’ autumn period and occupies first place in both events in the section final on May 17.
Trump’s education department previously sent a warning to California and Jurupa Valley High School via an exclusive statement to Pakinomist Digital on May 15.
High School has defended to let Hernandez compete in the girls’ category to follow current state legislation.
“JUSD continues to follow both California’s legislation and CIF policy on schooletics. Both state legislation and CIF policy currently require students to be allowed to participate in athletic teams and competitions that are in line with their gender identity, regardless of the students we earn, in the useful state and the connection law.
Trump himself entered the debate when he sent a true social speech on Tuesday morning and warned the state and governor Gavin Newsom of potential financing cuts and orders to local authorities to prevent a trans athlete from competing in girls’ category on Saturday.
Just hours later, California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) announced that it would make a small rule change for this weekend’s championship. The change gives biologically female athletes who just fell shyly to qualify for the championship behind a trans athlete a chance to compete for the title this weekend.
Newsom’s office made a statement to Pakinomist Digital, supporting CIF’s decision.
This change will result in at least two competitors qualifying to compete for the state title after falling just shy for the typical qualifying threshold on Saturday.
“CIFS proposed pilot is a reasonable, respectful way to navigate a complex problem without compromising competitiveness – a model worth pursuing. The governor is encouraged by this thought -provoking approach,” the statement reads.
Newsom previously admitted that he believed that biological men competing in girls’ sports were “deeply unreasonable” during an episode of his podcast in March.
Jurupa Unified School District (JUSD), in which the Jurupa Valley High School is based, was included in the DOJ’s list of recipients of a letter informing about the incoming investigation into the department’s official announcement on Tuesday. However, the school district claims that it has not received any letter of complaint, a spokesman Pakinomist told Digital.
DOJ has confirmed to Pakinomist Digital that JUSD is named in the letter.
Pakinomist Digital has reached CIF, Bonta’s Office and Riverside Unified School District for a response.
