"This week, the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it had initiated investigations into more than a dozen K-12 school districts in mostly blue states across the country. The investigations stem from complaints OCR has received alleging the districts are violating the presidential administration's anti-trans interpretation of Title IX by allowing transgender girls to participate in girls' athletics."
""Boys can join, girls can join. No one lost a place on the team because a transgender student joined," Hammer said. (Hammer did not address allegations that the district "allowed a male student to use female facilities.") Hammer told the Press Herald that a letter the district received from the Education Department notifying him of the federal civil rights investigation was the first time he'd ever heard of anyone having a problem with an alleged trans student's participation on the school's cheerleading squad."
The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights has opened investigations into more than a dozen K-12 districts in mostly blue states over complaints alleging violations of a presidential administration's anti-trans interpretation of Title IX. The complaints claim districts discriminate by permitting students to participate in sports based on gender identity. A complaint against Regional School Unit 19 in Maine alleges the district allowed a male student to use female facilities and join the girls' cheerleading squad. RSU 19's superintendent said the cheerleading squad is co-ed, that boys and girls can join, and that no one lost a place when a transgender student joined. The district said the federal letter was the first notice of any problem.
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