Trump admin probing school district for trans athlete scandal even after changing policy to follow exec order

The U.S. Department of Education opened a Title IX probe into the Tumwater School District (TSD) successful Washington authorities connected Friday implicit a wide publicized incidental involving a miss being allegedly punished for refusing to play a hoops crippled against a trans athlete. 

A civilian rights ailment was filed with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights connected behalf of pistillate TSD pupil Frances Staudt. The incidental became truthful wide publicized and arguable that the schoolhouse territory voted 3-1 past Thursday to ban trans athletes from girls' sports, defying the existent authorities instrumentality that orders schools to alteration trans inclusion. 

It is 1 of the archetypal incidents of a schoolhouse territory banning trans athletes from girls' sports, complying with President Donald Trump's "No Men successful Women's Sports" enforcement order, portion the authorities arsenic a full chooses to defy it. 

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"A batch of america whitethorn disagree with the enforcement order, but america arsenic schoolhouse committee members are caught betwixt a stone and a hard place,"  TSD committee subordinate Jill Adams said. "I enactment antithetic viewpoints, I enactment antithetic ways of living, but it's tough. I'm caught between, not a rock, but a boulder and a hard surface."

The committee members cited the caller incidental involving Staudt, and the nationalist backlash, successful its determination to prohibition trans athletes and comply with Trump's order.

Still, Trump's medication is inactive doing its owed diligence successful investigating the incidental anyhow aft the civilian rights ailment was filed. 

"OCR’s directed investigations of acquisition institutions, authorities boards of education, interscholastic associations, and schoolhouse districts demonstrates that the Trump Education Department volition vigorously enforce Title IX to guarantee men halt competing successful women’s sports," said Craig Trainor, acting adjunct caput for civilian rights. "If Washington wants to proceed to person national funds from the Department, it has to travel national law." 

The ailment alleged that the territory investigated the 15-year-old Staudt for "misgendering" an hostile and violating the district's policies against bullying and harassment connected Feb. 7. 

According to the document, anterior to the game, Staudt asked the school's main and diversion manager whether the subordinate was a biologic male. The administrators past allegedly confirmed that they had been notified that the subordinate was transgender, but denied her pleas to person the subordinate removed.

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Staudt removed herself from the game. Then, according to the document, a TSD worker allegedly confronted Staudt's younger member for taking a video of the game, saying, "You amended deliberation doubly astir what you’re doing close now."

The TSD provided a connection to Fox News Digital addressing the forthcoming investigation. 

"We instrumentality this substance earnestly and are committed to moving with OCR to code the concerns successful the complaint. Our precedence has ever been to make a safe, welcoming, and inclusive learning situation for each students, families, and staff," the connection read. 

"While we cannot sermon circumstantial details owed to confidentiality requirements, we instrumentality each concerns earnestly and stay dedicated to continuous betterment successful our schools."

Staudt and her mother, Aimee, discussed however her refusal to play against a biologic antheral ignited a firestorm with the Tumwater School District during a "Fox & Friends" interrogation past week.

"They [the schoolhouse district] could person avoided this happening," Aimee told Steve Doocy connected Thursday. "They knew, admittedly, that determination was going to beryllium this situation, and they had a meeting, the principal, the superintendent, and the diversion manager to sermon the information that this was a imaginable concern that was coming up."

Aimee believes that if the families had been notified of the concern beforehand and fixed players the enactment to beryllium retired of the game, it could person yielded a antithetic outcome. 

"But they didn't bash that," she said. "They enactment the kids connected the spot, and my girl was the 1 that really stood up successful this situation, and… she was exposed… It was atrocious the mode they handled it."

Meanwhile, the trans athlete, Andi Rooks, appeared alongside the athlete's begetter connected the YouTube bid "[un]Divided with Brandie Kruse" to code the issue. 

"I've ne'er had an contented until this game, and my extremity was ne'er to marque anybody uncomfortable successful immoderate way, and I didn't adjacent recognize Frances had an contented until I got yelled astatine at the game," Rooks said. "If she had had a speech with maine earlier the game, I would person sat out. My past happening I privation to bash is marque anybody uncomfortable."

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Washington is 1 of the galore bluish states that has refused to comply with Trump's enforcement order, arsenic WIAA argumentation states that each jock volition enactment successful programs "consistent with their sex individuality oregon the sex astir consistently expressed," and determination are not adjacent immoderate aesculapian oregon ineligible requirements. Bills that would prohibit transgender girls from participating successful girls' and women's sports person been introduced but not passed.

Washington authorities Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal spoke successful defence of transgender athletes successful girls' sports successful an code past week, claiming it was "inaccurate" to accidental determination are lone 2 genders. Reykdal insisted that Trump does not person the authorization arsenic president to contented a prohibition connected trans athletes successful girls' sports but conceded the U.S. Congress does.

"Until Congress changes the instrumentality oregon our authorities legislature changes the law, we're going to travel the existent instrumentality and the existent civilian rights model of this state, and that's what it tells america to do," Reykdal said. 

The Department of Education is besides presently investigating the precocious schoolhouse diversion associations successful California, Minnesota, Massachusetts and Maine for defying Trump's order. 

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