Female athletes and their families are gearing up for legal battles as high school athletic associations in California and Minnesota face a federal investigation for refusing to implement President Donald Trump’s recent executive order banning men from women’s sports.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced investigations Wednesday into the Minnesota State High School League and the California Interscholastic Federation, both of which announced they would abide by state law rather than federal Title IX law and continue allowing male athletes to compete in girls sports and use girls’ private spaces.
“The Minnesota State High School League and the California Interscholastic Federation are free to engage in all the meaningless virtue-signaling that they want, but at the end of the day, they must abide by federal law,” acting Assistant…
