Earlier this month, the Trump administration filed a lawsuit against California for disregarding Title IX and continuing to endanger girls in schools by allowing biological boys to still compete in their sports.

If California officials refuse to reverse course, then they should lose their federal education funding as a result.

On Feb. 5, President Donald Trump signed an executive order interpreting Title IX as prohibiting biological males from competing in female sports, which was the original intent of the law passed by Congress in 1972. California Governor Gavin Newsom appeared to agree at first.

In a March episode of his podcast, Newsom said that biological men competing against women was “deeply unfair.”

The governor’s words appeared to lack sincerity as he never took any action to ensure that only women could play in sports explicitly designated for females. In fact, a transgender athlete identifying as female won two gold medals in California’s high jump and triple jump competitions for high school girls on May 31.

The issue is not just relegated to California’s K-12 schools either. In late 2024, four universities forfeited their women’s volleyball matches against San José State University due to the school having a biological male on the team. During the ongoing controversy, an associate athletics director from the University of California,........

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