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Justice Department sues California for violating the rights of female athletes

July 9, 2025

By KAREN VELIE

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit today against California to force compliance of Title IX and to protect female student athletes from unfair competition and reckless endangerment from male participation on female high-school sports teams.

The complaint accuses the California Department of Education and the California Interscholastic Federation of engaging in illegal sex discrimination against female student athletes. Allowing males to compete against them, deprives these girls of athletic opportunities afforded to them by federal civil rights law.

The U.S. Department of Education’s “current allocation of funds to the California Department of Education for fiscal year 2025 is $44.3 billion.” The Education Department could terminate federal education funding to California at a time many school districts are facing financial hardships.

“The Governor of California has previously admitted that it is ‘deeply unfair’ to force women and girls to compete with men and boys in competitive sports,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “But not only is it ‘deeply unfair,’ it is also illegal under federal law. This Department of Justice will continue its fight to protect equal opportunities for women and girls in sports.”

The suit seeks declaratory, injunctive, and damages relief for violations of Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in any education program or activity that receives federal funding.

On June 25, the Trump administration announced that the California Department of Education had violated civil rights law by allowing transgender students to compete on girls sports teams. Federal laws require schools to provide girls an equal opportunity to compete in sports while laws in California allow boys and girls to compete in sports and use locker rooms of the gender they identify with.

On Monday, California officials formally rejected the Office of Civil Rights determination that California was violating the rights of female students.

“The California Department of Education … respectfully disagrees with OCR’s analysis and it will not sign the proposed resolution agreement,” wrote Len Garfinkel, general counsel for the department.

Title IX is a 1972 law forbidding sex discrimination based in education.

 


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Simply a distraction to divide us. There are fewer than 10 trans athletes competing in California scholastic sports. Their impact is incredibly insignificant but it works to keep people arguing with each other over nothing while Trump and his administration rob and rape this nation. In fact, Trump’s wealth has increased by $2.9 billion just since he started his term in January. Meanwhile, we can no longer afford to feed starving children in Africa or in America for that matter, can’t afford efficient weather reports, can no longer afford to respond to natural disasters and are poised to eliminate health insurance for millions of Americans. But here we are, arguing over something that doesn’t affect 99.9% of us.


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How interesting that you find protecting girls and young women from such nonsense a “distraction”…


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Exactly. Disregard the felon who is president who was best friends with a known pedophile. Disregard the pathological liar who is consistently an embarrassment to this country.


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Duh, Hey Vern? What’s that Title 9 thingy I heard about?


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What explains the cognitive corrosion in the California D.O.E. and CIF? They have lost all connection to reality if they think they can win this fight. They won’t likely win at the Ninth Circuit Court, and they certainly won’t win at the U.S. Supreme Court. Title IX is Federal Civil Rights Law. No amount of pleading on behalf of a very few mentally ill, delusional, gender-pretender, faux females will persuade sane and rational judges that the civil rights of females should be usurped for the benefit of a tiny handful of deranged or perverted males. Seeing leading Democrats opposing Civil Rights Laws isn’t really surprising to those who watched them do the very same in the 1950’s & 60’s at schoolhouse entrances in Little Rock, colleges in Georgia, and on bridges in Mississippi. They led the fight against civil rights for Blacks then and are now leading the vanguard opposing civil rights for female athletes today in the 21st Century. Shameful.


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Well put Flo.


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The democrats can’t help but be on the wrong side….


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Bondi needs to put these pervs on prison


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I agree. Anybody involved with Epstein needs to be charged and prosecuted. Sex trafficking, underage girls and consorting with a perv should be in jail. Just like Epsteins girlfriend Ghislane. Glad all of maga agree.


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Feds ain’t playin, and they’re doing the right thing. FAFO, then fire the school officials who are doing the wrong thing and refusing to fix it.


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The school officials are required to follow state law. It is not their right nor responsibility to violate that law. Attempts to remove school officials over this are just part of a blatant attempt by evangelicals to take complete control of school districts to implement a whole host of policies including removing books from libraries and controlling what is taught.


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Heh – “ I was only following orders” didn’t work at Nuremberg and it ain’t working now. Fed law Trumps state law. No significant repercussions would have resulted from compliance with the DOJ proposal. Instead California will lose big time by refusing to protect girls and young women from this nonsense.


Thank god we have a president hell bent on restoring common sense and doing what’s right, rather than letting leftist hacks hijack his auto pen to create havoc and grant pardons for crimes of abject corruption.


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So you say school officials can pick and choose which laws they must follow, yes to state laws but no to federal laws, interesting. Think I’ll try that the next time I have a traffic law issue, “Officer, I choose not to follow the speed limit law, so you can’t issue me a speeding ticket”, that’ll work.


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School officials are subject to state law. Whether state law is accurate is up for the courts to decide. I am sorry that you can’t understand how the laws of the republic work and somehow feel like that was a rational, informed response.


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It’s not just evangelicals that are against this, it’s a majority of California, even Newsom himself, but since it’s coming from the Trump administration California leadership feels the need to fight against it, again screwing over the citizens of this state.


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Newsroom is not against it. He is just pretending to be sane while he builds his Presidential bid.


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I am not saying that only evangelicals are against it. What I am saying is that it is being used as a wedge issue by evangelicals to take over school boards. It’s a focused political tactic for a broader goal. And that is a fact.


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