The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday it has launched investigations into Oregon and California for potential Title IX violations after both states continue to allow males to compete in girls’ sports.
In a May 23 letter to three attorneys requesting an investigation into Oregon, DOJ Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dillon confirmed the agency will examine both the Oregon Department of Education and the Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA).
The letter cites multiple complaints from female high-schoolers alleging that Oregon has effectively stripped girls of the protections guaranteed by Title IX by allowing males to compete in female-only sports.
Assistant AG @HarmeetKDhillon confirms the DOJ is now investigating Oregon for potential Title IX violations after many female athletes have filed complaints.
GOOD. Bring down the hammer of justice on all the blue states.
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“As we understand your correspondence, your organization has received multiple complaints from female high school athletes in Oregon who contend that they have been actively and purposefully denied the right to complete in a female-only category and, further, that male athletes have been allowed to participate in a multitude of girls’ events,” the letter reads. “When males are allowed to compete with girls in female-only sports or events, the protections afforded to female athletes by Title IX are lost, and, quite simply, the law is broken.”
According to the letter, Dhillon’s office will work with the Title IX Special Investigations Team and the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights to determine if Oregon authorities violated federal law.
The investigation follows a February executive order from President Donald Trump banning male athletes from women’s sports, an effort to reinforce Title IX protections, which are designed to protect women and girls in sports and education.
Despite the order, multiple states — including Oregon — have continued to permit male participation in girls’ sports.
In a parallel move Wednesday, the DOJ announced an investigation into California’s 2013 law that allows “transgender” student-athletes to compete in school sports based on “gender identity” rather than sex.
This comes one day after Trump threatened to cut federal funding from California over a controversy surrounding a 16-year-old male who qualified for the girls’ cross-country state championships.
“At the core of the Title IX regulations is an abiding interest in creating opportunities for women and girls to enjoy equal athletic opportunities on a level playing,” the DOJ wrote in its statement to the court Wednesday. “Allowing a biological male-transgender female to compete on a girls’ cross-country team upsets that level playing field and interferes with the opportunity for girls to compete in a sport where mere seconds can mean the difference between wins and losses.”
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