The school board of Kern County, California, has moved to defy state policy and prohibit transgender athletes from participating in girls’ sports.
“Now, there be it resolved the Kern County Board of Education affirms it is for Title IX and calls on athletic governing bodies to uphold its protections by ensuring fairness in girls’ sports,” Trustee Lori Cisneros said, as per KBAK.
In July, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against California over violations of Title IX of the Civil Rights Act through its inclusion of transgender individuals in girls’ sports and locker rooms.
According to the filing, the California Department of Education (CDE) and the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) have held to “discriminatory policies and practices” that “ignore undeniable biological differences between boys and girls” and instead favor “an amorphous ‘gender identity.’” As a result of the policies, girls are “displaced from podiums, denied awards, and miss out on critical visibility for college scholarships and recognition.”
President Donald Trump threatened to impose “large-scale fines” against the state of California following the victory of a biological male in multiple girls’ track and field events in June. “A Biological Male competed in California Girls State Finals, WINNING BIG, despite the fact that they were warned by me not to do so,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “As Governor Gavin Newscum fully understands, large scale fines will be imposed!”
Trump’s threat stemmed from a February executive order, which declared that “it is the policy of the United States to rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, which results in the endangerment, humiliation, and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy.”
