The government of President Donald Trump sued the State of California on Wednesday for allowing transgender athletes in women’s sports teams, which puts billions of dollars into play in federal subsidies for education.
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) argues in the legal complaint that California violates Title IX, a 1972 federal law that prohibits discrimination due to sex in any program or educational activity that receives federal funds.
According to the complaint, the California Department of Education (CDE) and the California Interest Federation (CIF) incurred illegal discrimination against athletes by allowing transgender athletes to compete against them, “depriving them of equality” of educational and sports opportunities granted by the Federal Civil Rights Law.
The DOJ threatens to withdraw immediate and future federal aid, in addition to applying sanctions to the State. The current Funds of the US Department of Education to the CDE for fiscal year 2025 amounts to approximately 44 thousand 300 million dollars, according to data set out in the demand.
The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, has expressed concern for allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s teams.
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The US attorney general, Pam Bondi, echoed Wednesday in a statement on the words of the Democratic governor and considered that forcing women and girls to compete with men and boys in competitive sports is “deeply unfair”, but also “is illegal” according to federal law.
For its part, the EU Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, told Fox News channel that the legal complaint fulfilled a Trump campaign promise to “keep men out of women’s sport.”
With EFE information
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