The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) is launching investigations into two blue state athletic associations that have publicly announced plans to flout President Donald Trump’s executive order protecting women’s and girls’ sports teams from the incursion of male athletes who identify as transgender.
The DOE sent letters to both the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) and the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) on Wednesday notifying the organizations that they are under investigation by the department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Breitbart News has exclusively learned. In the letters the DOE told the associations, which govern high school sports in their states, that state law “does not preempt or otherwise nullify federal anti-discrimination laws,” and that “member schools remain subject to Title IX and its implementing regulations.”
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