The U.S. Department of Education has found the state of California in violation of Title IX civil rights law because it allows males who claim to be female to steal opportunities from actual women and girls.
The Trump administration’s Education Department has been investigating California since February, and is now targeting both the California Department of Education (CDE) and the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF), “which publicly announced plans to violate federal antidiscrimination laws related to girls’ and women’s sports,” the department said.
“Although Governor Gavin Newsom admitted months ago it was ‘deeply unfair’ to allow men to compete in women’s sports, both the California Department of Education and the California Interscholastic Federation continued as recently as a few weeks ago to allow men to steal female athletes’ well-deserved accolades and to subject them to the indignity of unfair and unsafe competitions,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said. “The Trump Administration will relentlessly enforce Title IX protections for women and girls, and our findings today make clear that California has failed to adhere to its obligations under federal law. The state must swiftly come into compliance with Title IX or face the consequences that follow.”
Not only does California allow men to compete against women, but it also allows them to use women’s private facilities like restrooms and locker rooms, forcing those women to endure undressing in front of men and witness the men undress as well.
The Education Department has proposed a Resolution Agreement that would require the CDE and CIF to change their policies and no longer discriminate against women, and has given the entities 10 days to comply. If California does not comply, as has been the case in similarly situated states like Maine, the state would see “imminent enforcement action” and likely be elevated to the Department of Justice for further proceedings to hold them accountable.
Under the Resolution Agreement, CDE and CIF would be required to tell federal funding recipients that “operate interscholastic athletics programs” they must enforce Title IX rules and, specifically, forbid males from competing against females and adopt definitions of “male” and “female” based on biology, instead of ideology.
The notice would also require California to recognize that federal civil rights law supersedes state law that systematically enforces discrimination against women, and the CDE and CIF would be required to rescind all guidance telling local entities to allow males in women’s sports.
In addition to the legal changes, the state entities would also need to restore sports records, titles, and awards given to trans-identifying males to the female who rightfully won them. The CDE would also need to send a letter to each female it allowed to be beaten by a male to apologize for allowing that to happen.
In a June 18 case regarding the genital mutilation and chemical castration of children in the name of claiming to be “transgender,” the U.S. Supreme Court recognized that the refusal of trans interventions to a minor who believes he is “transgender” is not the same thing as discrimination on the basis of “biological sex.”
Justice Clarence Thomas also destroyed the “expert class” narrative sold to Americans to market a whole host of falsehoods, including the lie that those kinds of medical interventions are good for children, or that anyone who claims to be a different gender is actually that different gender.
Breccan F. Thies is a correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.