Trump Title Ix Team Probing Education Chief Who Called It 'inaccurate' To Say There Are Only Boys And Girls

President Donald Trump's recently formed Title IX investigative team has been called upon successful nan authorities of Washington. 

Department of Education (DOE) Secretary Linda McMahon announced Wednesday nan squad will beryllium launching an investigation into Washington Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal's office. 

The team, a associated inaugural by nan DOE and nan U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), is taking action successful consequence to Reykdal requiring schools to let biologically antheral trans athletes connected girls sports teams. 

"Multiple Washington authorities schoolhouse districts person reported that OSPI is requiring schoolhouse boards to adopt policies that let males to participate successful female sports and inhabit female-only friendly facilities, thereby raising important Title IX concerns," nan announcement said. 

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McMahon issued a informing to Reykdal and nan remainder of nan Democrat-controlled state.

"Washington authorities appears to usage its position of authority to coerce its districts into hiding ‘gender identity’ accusation from students’ parents and to adopt policies to covertly smuggle gender ideology into nan classroom, confusing students and letting boys into girls sports, bathrooms and locker rooms," McMahon said.

"If true, these are clear violations of parental authorities and female equality successful athletics, which are protected by national laws that will beryllium enforced by nan Trump administration." 

Reykdal provided a connection to Fox News Digital and did not bespeak his agency would cooperate pinch nan national investigation. 

"My occupation arsenic nan leader of this law agency is to communicate, uphold and enforce nan law," Reykdal said. "My agency will enforce our existent laws arsenic we are required to do until Congress changes nan rule and/or national courts invalidate Washington state’s laws. Unless, and until that happens, we will beryllium pursuing Washington state’s laws, not a president’s governmental leanings expressed done unlawful orders." 

Reykdal said successful defense of transgender athletes successful girls sports successful an reside Feb. 20, claiming it was "inaccurate" to opportunity location are only 2 genders. 

"It is rather simply inaccurate to say, biologically, that location are only boys and location are only girls," Reykdal said connected camera. "There's a continuum. There's a subject to this. There are children who are born intersex. There are children whose hormones and whose chromosomes are not accordant pinch their activity astatine birth." 

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Washington's precocious schoolhouse athletes are allowed to compete based connected their gender personality alternatively than their biologic sex. Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) argumentation states that each jock will participate successful programs "consistent pinch their gender personality aliases nan gender astir consistently expressed," and location are nary aesculapian aliases ineligible requirements. 

Bills that would prohibit transgender girls from participating successful girls and women's sports person been introduced but not passed.

The Kennewick School Board revenge a Title IX title pinch nan DOE's Office of Civil Rights against Reykdal's agency successful precocious March complete nan issue. 

Kennewick School Board President Gabe Galbraith antecedently told Fox News nan territory is seeking national involution to guarantee nan bid will yet beryllium honored.

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"There's boys participating successful girls sports. There's boys successful girls locker rooms. It's unfair. It's not safe, and we're asking nan national authorities to conscionable measurement successful and put an extremity to this and guarantee that nan authorities is pursuing President Trump's statements," he said.

Other schoolhouse districts person taken a guidelines against Reykdal since President Trump signed his "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" executive bid Feb. 5. 

The Tumwater School District's committee of board voted later that period to prohibition trans girls from playing for girls sports teams. The solution passed by a ballot of 3-1 aft a civilian authorities complaint was filed against nan territory complete an incident involving a trans jock successful a girls hoops game. 

The title alleged that nan Tumwater School District in Washington is investigating 15-year-old Frances Staudt for "misgendering" nan force and violating nan district's policies against bullying and harassment Feb. 7. 

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According to nan document, Staudt asked nan school's main and diversion head earlier nan crippled whether nan subordinate was a biologic male. The administrators past allegedly confirmed that they had been notified that nan subordinate was transgender but denied her pleas to person nan subordinate removed.

However, nan DOE OCR announced an investigation into Tumwater School District conscionable days later. 

Now, nan Trump management is going further up nan concatenation of bid successful nan state, and taking purpose astatine nan superintendent. 

In summation to reports that Washington schools are allowing trans athletes successful girls sports, nan DOE cited successful its announcement Wednesday that La Center School District successful La Center, Washington, received a letter of finding indicating Reykdal was requiring districts to enact policies, specified arsenic mandating that districts not notify parents of a alteration successful their child’s "gender identity,"

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