A pair of federal investigations has found that California’s Department of Education and the California Interscholastic Federation, the governing body overseeing high school athletics statewide, are in “clear violation” of Title IX for allowing biological males to compete in female-only sports.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded educational programming, requires schools to ensure equal opportunities, including across athletic activities.
California, however, has “actively prevented this equality of opportunity by allowing males in girls’ sports and intimate spaces,” the U.S. Department of Education’s civil rights office said Wednesday, announcing findings from its Title IX investigations into the two state entities.
Following the noncompliance findings, the California education department and athletics association were offered
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