On Thursday, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon fired off a letter to California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom warning him that public schools that permit boys to play in girls’ sports could lose federal funding.
In an attempt to mitigate his record as an ardent leftist, Newsom recently reversed himself on the issue, saying it is “deeply unfair” for male athletes to participate in women’s sports.
“An overwhelming majority of Americans agree with you that biological men in women’s sports is unfair and wrong,” McMahon wrote. “Many are confused, however, by your office’s silence on the harms of substituting ‘gender identity’ for sex in other areas of the school environment. After all, if men ‘identifying as women; shouldn’t play women’s sports, why do California schools continue to let boys ‘identifying as girls’ use girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms,…
