The Trump administration launched an investigation into an upstate New York school district for outwardly defying a federal order barring transgender athletes from competing in girls sports.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon said Tuesday the administration would probe Saratoga Springs for allegedly discriminating against girls by allowing biological boys to play girls sports and use girls’ locker rooms.
“The Trump Administration has been unrelenting in our effort to ensure that women and girls’ educational experiences are not marred by sex discrimination,” McMahon said. “It is a clear violation of federal civil rights law, and of women’s dignity, to allow males to participate in female-sports and occupy female-only intimate facilities.”
McMahon claimed the district is violating Title IX of the federal civil rights law, which protects against sex-based discrimination in schools and programs that receive federal funding.
