"The U.S. Department of Education recently referred its investigation of transgender athletes in Minnesota schools to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), a critical step to denying the state federal funding as part of the president's anti-trans crusade. Minnesota is fighting the president's attempts in federal court. The U.S. Departments of Education (ED) and Health and Human Services (HHS) began their probes of the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) and the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) in September, Politico reported."
"Last October, ED and HHS found the state in violation of both an anti-trans executive order and Title IX "by allowing males to compete in female sports and occupy female intimate facilities." MDE and MSHSL refused to negotiate with the federal agencies or accept their proposed resolution agreement, leading the ED and HHS on Monday to refer their investigation to the DOJ."
"Title IX is the federal law that bans discrimination on the basis of sex in education. President Joe Biden's administration interpreted that law as banning anti-trans discrimination since it's impossible to discriminate on the basis of gender identity without taking sex into account. That is, banning trans girls from playing school sports but not cis girls, solely because of their sex assigned at birth, is the kind of discri"
ED and HHS opened probes of the Minnesota Department of Education and the Minnesota State High School League in September. In October, the agencies found Minnesota violated an anti-trans executive order and Title IX by allowing males to compete in female sports and occupy female intimate facilities. MDE and MSHSL refused proposed resolution agreements, prompting ED and HHS to refer the matter to the DOJ for enforcement and possible withholding of federal funds. In February, the president signed an executive order blocking federal funding for schools that allow trans girls to compete and directed DOJ to prosecute such schools. The Biden administration interprets Title IX as banning anti-trans discrimination because gender-identity discrimination necessarily involves sex.
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