A heated school board meeting in Augusta, Maine, turned contentious when a parent was silenced while voicing opposition to transgender athletes participating in girls' sports.
The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) has declared it will not comply with new Title IX rules under President Donald Trump’s administration that would prohibit biological males from competing in female sports. Citing state inclusion laws, WIAA officials claim that enforcing the federal mandate would violate current Washington state statutes.
The Trump Administration’s Departments of Education and Justice have launched a new Title IX Special Investigations Team (SIT) to combat the growing wave of gender ideology impacting female students and athletes. The SIT will focus on swift enforcement of President Trump’s executive order banning biological males from competing in female sports and will crack down on schools defying federal protections under Title IX.
A coalition of Republican legislators has called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to limit participation in women's sports categories to individuals assigned female at birth.