Washington (AP) – The government of President Donald Trump sued the California Ministry of Education on Wednesday to ensure that transgender girls were able to compete in the girls’ sports teams.
The move escalates a continued struggle between the Republican government in Washington and democratically run California for transorters who take part in girls and women’s sports.
The lawsuit submitted by the Ministry of Justice states that the policy of transgender athletes in California violates title IX against title IX, the federal law, prohibits discrimination on education on the basis of gender. The department says that California rules are “not only illegal and unfair, but also humiliating, which signals girls that their opportunities and successes for the accommodation of boys are secondary.”
“These discriminatory guidelines and practices ignore undeniable biological differences between boys and girls in favor of an amorphous” gender identity “,” the lawsuit says. “The results of these illegal guidelines are blatant
California has a more than decades of law in the books that enables students to participate in sexual school programs, including sports teams, and bathrooms and other facilities that match their gender identity.
Trump criticized the participation of a student athlete of the transgender high school, who won titles in the California athletics championships last month. In a letter after the meeting, the deputy prosecutor Harmonet Dhillon wrote that the sports point that led the final dismissed against the same protective clause of the constitution by allowed to attend other athletes.
At the beginning of this year, the federal education department initiated an investigation by the California guidelines with which athletes can compete in the sports teams who are in line with their gender identity. The agency said last month that the guidelines violated IX titles, and there was 10 days for the state to change them. But the state rejected this week.
Trump also saved Main’s democratic governor about the state’s transgender athletes. Governor Janet Mills said to the President in February: “We will see them in court” because he sent his threats about the problem of financing to the state. In April, his administration submitted a lawsuit in which Maine had violated IX by allowed transmitters and women to attend other athletes.
In the meantime, governor Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., In his podcast in March, some party allies when he questioned the fairness of trans-girls who took part in girls sports. GOP critics have asked the governor to support a ban and said his comments did not occur with his actions.
The problem is part of a nationwide struggle for the rights of transgender youth, in which states only narrow transgender girls in girls’ sports teams who are involved in gender-specific operations for minors and the parents are obliged to notify when a child changes their pronouns at school. More than two dozen countries have laws that differentiate between transgender women and girls at certain sports competitions. Some of the guidelines were blocked in court.
Trump signed an executive order in February to complete trans girls and women from participating in sports teams in line with their gender identity.
Proponents of a ban, including the conservative family council in California, say that it would restore fairness in sporting competitions. Opponents, including the LGBTQ+ Advocacy Group Equality California, say that bans are an attack on transgender youth.
