California’s high school athletics’ playoff and championship governing body, commonly known in the Golden State as CIF, hastily took action in the wake of the threat this week by Donald Trump of pulling funding, perhaps permanently, from California if biological boys were allowed to continue competing against biological girls.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is pretty straightforward when it comes to discrimination in high school and college athletics, and more importantly, equal opportunity. Congress has a pretty good primer of what Title IX covers.
Separate Athletics Teams
While Title IX prohibits sex discrimination in recipient schools’ athletics programs, this prohibition does not mean all sex-based distinctions are banned. According to Title IX regulations, schools may offer separate athletics teams for each sex where selection is…
