The Trump administration has talked about a great game about transgender teenagers who practice sports in California, but its ability to influence state policy is limited, the agreement to the athletic administrators surveyed by this news organization.
Even so, the governing body of the State for high school athletics is caught in the sight as the political struggle on the participation of transgender athletes in women and girls continues to boil.
A letter from the Office of the United States Attorney General, PAM Bondi, which announces a federal review of Title IX, arrived at Ron Nocetti’s office, executive director of the California Ins Belly Federation on February 25. Nocetti, an Atlético administrator for a long time, was one of the three recipients, together with the governor of Maine Mills and Minnesota Keith Ellison’s general lawyer.
Bondi announced that each State would be investigated on its policies on the participation of transgender athletes in sports.
Specifically, Bondi wrote: “Require that girls compete against boys in sports and sporting events violates Title IX of the Educational Amendment Law of 1972”.
California and his governing body for high school sports, said Bondi, “should be in warning.”
“If the investigation of the Department of Education shows de facto denies the girls an equal opportunity to participate in sporting and athletic events by demanding that they compete for Agast Boys, the Department of Justice is ready Bondi Bond.” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “. “” “
The investigation marked a new territory in a fight that has only increased from President Donald Trump Toke in January. The Department of Justice, Bondi wrote, was acting under the direction of Trump to “prioritize application actions against athletic associations that deny girls equal opportunities to participate in sporting and athletic events in demanding the issue to compete.”
The CIF has been consistent in his response, repeating that he is simply respecting by the California Law, which establishes under section 221.5 (f) of the Education Code that a student must be allowed to “use easy or gender identity, the list of the list of respects of his list of his list of him is a list of him or is the list of his is his list of his List of respects on your album is Irjeskrespecally. “
While the organization has been criticized by the defenders of Anti-Trans for what they interpreted as a position, athletics administrators said CIF continues in any direction that the State has proven.
The CIF does not monitor the number of transgender girls participating in sports, but approximately 3.3% of all high school students identified as transgender in a 2023 study by the centers for disease control and prevention. At the university level, the president of the NCAA, Charlie Baker, estimated the duration of an audience in the December Congress that of the 510,000 athletes competing under his umbrella, Ferwer of 10 were transgender.
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While about 14% of California’s educational budget comes from federal funds, most of those dollars are allocated to programs such as lunch subsidies for low -income students and special education services. No federal money reaches the State Athletic Government Body.
In Maine, one of the other states under investigation, the funds of the Department of Agriculture were held last month for what was described as violations of Title IX. In a lawsuit filed this week seeking to reverse the freezing, Attorney General Aaron Frey described the money as “subsidy funds that are going to keep the children fed.”
Clarissa Doutherd, executive director of Parent Voices Oakland, has been fighting since 2021 to keep three Head Start sites that provide similar services for some 600 children in Oakland. The program receives $ 11 billion annually from the Department of Health and Human Services to promote school preparation for about 833000 children from birth to 5 years at low -income parties throughout the country.
“That fight becomes more complicated when there is so much uncertainty at the federal level,” Doutherd said. “We are very worried. These are often children whose families have homeless people or run the risk of insecurity (and) food insecurity of housing.”
The CIF and its regional sections are self -sufficient entities. Although it does not finance individual athletic programs, that depends on schools, which depend on state and district dollars, the organization is responsible for a variety of expenses, including tournament places, hiring and training of official costs.
These tasks would continue uninterrupted in case the federal funds were retained. Most of the operational budget of approximately $ 7 million of the CIF is largely financed by rates paid by its member schools and the sale of tickets for championship events.
What seems to be at risk is approximately $ 16.8 billion in federal dollars that may not affect sports programs, but would harm some of the most full of the state.
California was willing to fight during the first Trump administration, presenting more than 120 demands during the four years, but the current Attorney General, Rob Bonta, has not yet intervened in defense of the organization. In a statement, the Bronta office said it was “committed to protecting and defending the rights of our transgender students and ensuring that all students can enjoy their right to the same as free education of discrimination and harassment.”