Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) demanded a federal investigation into a New York school district over its “blatant rejection” of President Donald Trump’s executive order on protecting girls and women’s sports.
The “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order offered a new interpretation of Title IX to clarify it only applied to biological sex. This was meant to keep transgender athletes out of women’s sports.
Despite Trump’s executive order, Saratoga Springs City School District went another direction by passing a resolution titled “Affirming Our Support for Every Student” to assert that its schools will respect students’ “gender identity.” This resolution applies to sports, school events, and facility use.
“Our daughters should not be forced to compete against biological men in competitive sports or share a locker room with biological men,” Stefanik wrote in a Monday letter to Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon. The representative went on to call on the department’s Office of Civil Rights to investigate and hold the district “accountable under federal law.”
“I join President Trump in his commitment to protect our nation’s girls and daughters. This Far Left woke ideology has no place in our communities,” Stefanik wrote. “I look forward to working together to enforce President Donald Trump’s agenda and hold education institutions and governing bodies like the Saratoga Springs City School District Board of Education accountable.”
The SSCSD includes six elementary schools, a single middle school, and one high school. These schools are also compliant with the New York State Board of Regents’ diversity, equity, and inclusion framework.
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Maine was the first state targeted by the Departments of Education and Justice. Attorney General Pam Bondi left the door open to pursue California and Minnesota as well.
Even though Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) acknowledged that transgender athletes make women’s sports “deeply unfair,” his state continues to facilitate them. Education Secretary Linda McMahon cited Newsom’s comment in a letter demanding that the state school system comply or else lose its federal funding.