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Cromwell, Con. – A school system in connectivity is investigating its transgender athletic policy by the Trump administration, the US Department of Education on Tuesday confirmed a new flashpoint in the national debate on the participation of Trans Girls in Youth Games.
Cromwell Mayor James Demetrids said that the city’s school system may lose about $ 1 million in federal funding if the department determines that the title is a violation of the IX, Federal Civil Rights Act, which refuses sex discrimination in federal assistance education programs or activities.
The mayor, a democrat, said on Monday that the school would be disqualified for the district state athletic conference if this student does not allow athletes to compete on different sports teams to suit their gender identity. He said that the district is currently “following the rules for all the applicable state and federal laws as well as the Connecticut Intercolate Athletic Conference”.
“We don’t know why Cromwell was targeted for this action,” Demetriyds said in a statement on Facebook. He said that the investigation also included the use of toilet and locker room.
For civil rights, the leading civil rights of the US Education Department’s office, the Craig Trainer said in a statement that the investigation was seeing whether the policies of the district were “depriving girls and young women of equal athletic opportunities.”
US Education Secretary Linda McMahon said, “This administration will fight on every front to protect the game of women and girls.”
A community of more than 14,000, Cromwell Capital, is about 20 minutes south of Hartford. A rally was planned in support of transgender youth on Tuesday evening at Cromwell High School.
In 2019, during the first term of President Donald Trump, the office of civil rights launched an inquiry into a policy of connectivity, which allows transgender high school athletes to compete as a gender with which they identify. It followed a complaint filed by the families of three girls, who said that they were discriminated against two athletes to compete in track events, which were identified as men at birth, including a single one in the Kromwell High School.
In 2022, a federal appeal court rejected a challenge for a policy of connectivity. It was later revived and the case is still pending. It may be ready for a test in 2026.
A few days after taking office for his second term, Trump signed an executive order called “Keeping Main out of women sports”, stating that “all money from educational programs” all money “who deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, resulting in women and girls’ danger, insults and girls deprived and deprived them.”
In its post, Demetriyds asked state officials to help the city to keep them liabilities and if Cromwell is sued by the Department of Justice.
In March, the Education Department opened an investigation in Portland Public Schools, Oregon’s largest school district to allow a transgender athlete to compete on high school girls’ track-and-field team.
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