Education Department to hear complaint against trans intrusion in girls’ sports
The Trump Department of Education (DOE) has agreed to investigate claims that the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference’s (CIAC’s) allowance of gender-confused males in girls’ athletics constitutes unlawful discrimination, prompting outrage from transgender activists. Declaring that it “would be fundamentally unjust” to “preclude a student from participation on a gender-specific sports team that is consistent with the public gender identity of that student for all other purposes,” the CIAC handbook says the conference “shall defer to the determination of the student and his or her local school regarding gender identification,” without any sort of conditions pertaining to physical transitions or testosterone levels. Thanks to the CIAC policy, biologically male competitors have consistently outperformed actual females, according to a complaint filed by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) on behalf of three-track athletes. This, in turn, deprives girls not only of opportunit...