In latest trans sports salvo, Trump administration creates Title IX investigation team
The Trump administration is creating a special investigation team in the ninth title, which focuses on keeping women and girls transmitted from sports teams and toilets intended for females.
Justice departments said in a joint press statement on Friday that the team “will protect students, especially mathematics, from the malicious effects of gender ideology in school programs and activities.”
The team will allow, according to the release, the two parts to simplify investigations into the “amazing folder of the ninth address”. The ninth title is the 1972 Civil Rights Law that is prohibited to sexual discrimination in educational programs that receive federal funding.
The participation of women’s sexually transformed women in women’s sports has been a growing political issue during the past few years. More than half of the United States has now Measures that restrict sports participation for transient studentsAnd President Donald Trump The executive order signed In February, women and girls transformed female sports are prohibited.
The private investigative team will consist of investigators and lawyers from the Ministry of Energy from both DOE and Doj.
“This cooperative effort with the Ministry of Education, a lawyer, will be able to take comprehensive measures when sport or spaces are exposed to women to threaten and use the full authority of the law to treat any violation of the civil rights of women.”
The Minister of Education, Linda McMahon, a co -founder and former coordinator in the world for entertainment wrestling (WWE), said that she has a message for entities that allowed women to “competition in women’s sports and use intimate facilities for women: there is a new sheriff in the city.”
A spokeswoman for the LGBTQ Advocacy Glaad, the creation of the new team, described “an unfounded plan with a waste of waste of the indescribable taxpayers resources to follow up on an Animus.”
“Targeting a handful of athletes does nothing to protect women and girls,” the spokeswoman added. “In fact, this ban endangered all girls because they risk invasive genital exams and other expensive” verification “.
While the exact number of athletes of transgender students is unknown, during a hearing in December before Congress, NCAA President Charlie Baker said he realizes less than 10 active athletes in NCAA who got acquainted with transgender people.
In March, the Trump administration Stop financing of $ 175 million To the University of Pennsylvania because of its transgender sporting policies, which the school said it is compatible with the NCAA and IVY policies.
