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California Attorney General Rob Bonta He is allowing transgender athletes in women’s sports as he faces a Department of Justice investigation into his state law.
DOJ released its investigation on Wednesday, the day after the president Donald Trump He threatened to withdraw funds from the state after allowing trans athletes to compete in women’s track and field championships.
Bonta’s office responded Recent pressure In a statement to Fox News Digital, he and California regarding the issue of California.
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“We continue to be committed to defending and supporting California law and all additional laws that guarantee the rights of students, including transgender students. We will be free from discrimination and harassment. We will continue to closely monitor the actions of the Trump administration in this area,” the statement said.
The DOJ’s announcement of the national investigation is Bonta included As a defendant. The lawsuit filed by the two girls’ families at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, alleges that the school’s cross-country team dropped an athlete from her varsity spot in favour of trans athletes, and that school administrators compared the “Save Girls Sports” t-shirt to Swastikas.
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The lawsuit, filed in November, seeks to challenge the state’s current law that allows trans athletes to compete as girls, which has been in place since 2014. The lawsuit has expanded the list of defendants to include February 1st.
Just a few days later, after Trump signed an executive order on February 5th “holding men out of women’s sports,” the U.S. Department of Education began an investigation by the California Federation of Interstate Governance (CIF) for openly denying the order.
Now, state tensions come to mind this weekend at the Girls Track and Field State Championship.
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The CIF has already made several rule changes to accommodate trans athletes, girls taking shelter to AB Hernandez at Julpa Valley High School. The changes include giving medals to “biological women” competitors who would have won the podium if Hernandez hadn’t made it ahead.
Still, many families and activists are opposed to the CIF to allow the situation to continue at all, and the Trump administration has not suggested that changes to rules will meet demands on the issue.
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