The US Ministry of Education on Monday opened a title IX study by the Tumwater School District (TSD) in Washington State over a broadly published incident involving a girl allegedly punished for refusing to play a basketball match against a trans athlete.
It is one of the first events in a school district that prohibits trans -athletes from girls’ sports that comply with President Donald Trump’s “No men in women’s sports” executive order, while the state as a whole chooses to defy it.
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“Many of us may disagree with the executive order, but us as school guidance are caught between a cliff and a tough place,” said TSD board member Jill Adams. “I support different views, I support different ways of living, but it’s tough. I’m caught in between, not a rock, but a stone and a hard surface.”
The board members quoted the recent incident involving the permanent and national setback, in his decision to ban Trans athletes and comply with Trump’s order.
Still, Trump’s administration is still doing its due diligence in investigating the incident after the civil rights complaint was filed.
“OCRS corrected studies of educational institutions, state educational boards, interscholastic associations and school districts demonstrate that Trump training department will strongly enforce title IX to ensure men stop competing in women’s sports,” said Craig Trainor, acting assisting secretary for civil rights. “If Washington wants to continue receiving federal funds from the department, it must follow federal law.”
The complaint claimed that the district was investigating the 15-year-old perpetual to “mislead” an opponent and violate the district’s policy against bullying and harassment on February 7.
According to the document, before the game, the Staudt asked the school’s principal and athletic director if the player was a biological man. The administrators then reportedly confirmed that they had been notified that the player was transgender, but refused her pleas to have the player removed.
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Periodt removed himself from the game. According to the document, a TSD employee allegedly confronted the Young Brother of the game for taking a video of the game and said, “You should rather think twice about what you’re doing right now.”
Staudt and her mother, Aimee, discussed how her rejection of playing against a biological man ignited a fire storm with Tumwater School District Under a “Fox & Friends” Interview last week.
“The [the school district] Could have avoided this happening, “Aimee told Steve Docy on Thursday.” Admittedly, they knew that there would be this situation and they had a meeting, principal, superintendent and the athletic director to discuss the fact that this was a potential situation that came up. “
Aimee believes that if the families had been notified of the situation in advance and given the players the opportunity to sit out of the game, it could have yielded another result.
“But they didn’t,” she said. “They put the kids on the spot and my daughter was the one who actually got up in this situation and … she was exposed to … It was terrible as they handled it.”
Meanwhile, the trans -athlete, Andi Rooks, appeared along with the athlete’s father on the YouTube series “[un]Divided with Brandie Kruse“To solve the problem.
“I’ve never had any problem before this game, and my goal was never to make any uncomfortable in any way, and I didn’t even know that Frances had a problem until I shouted at the game,” Rook said. “If she had had a conversation with me before the game, I would have been sitting out. My last thing I want to do is make someone unpleasant.”
Washington is one of the many blue states that have refused to comply with Trump’s executive order, as the WIAA policy says each athlete will participate in programs “that complies with their gender identity or gender most consistently expressed,” and there are not even a medical or legal requirement. Bills that would prohibit transient girls from attending girls and women’s sports have been introduced but not passed.
Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal spoke in defense of Transgender athletes In Girls’ sports at an address last week and claimed it was “inaccurate” to say that there are only two genders. Reykdal insisted that Trump has no authority as president to issue a ban on trans athletes in girls’ sports, but admitted the US Congress does.
“Until Congress changes the law or our state legislator, we will change the law, we will follow the current law and the current civil rights framework for this state, and that is what it tells us to do,” Reykdal said.
The Department of Education is currently also investigating athletic associations in California, Minnesota, Massachusetts and Maine to trouble Trump’s order.
