The Education Department is investigating Oregon’s largest school district and the state’s governing body for high school sports for allowing a transgender student to participate in girls’ track and field competitions, the department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced Tuesday.

In letters sent this week to Kimberlee Armstrong, superintendent of Portland Public Schools, and the Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA), the department alleged both entities violated Title IX, the federal law against sex discrimination, by permitting one transgender teenager to compete against and alongside non-transgender girls and access the girls’ locker room.

OCR said it opened the inquiries in response to a complaint filed with the department and “credible public reporting” that Leodis V. McDaniel High School in Portland allowed a trans student to race on its girls’ track team the last two seasons.

The student, according to OCR, easily won the girls’ 200-meter and 400-meter dashes at this and last year’s Portland Interscholastic League Championship.

The department’s investigations into the school district and sports association are the latest in a string of probes the department has opened since President Trump signed an executive order to ban transgender athletes from competing in........

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