Education Department Sued for Transgender Athlete Funding Threat

The California State University Board of Trustees sued the US Education Department Friday, claiming it violated federal law by threatening to revoke San José State University’s funding over a transgender volleyball player’s participation from 2022 to 2024.

The board of trustees allege the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights wrongly found SJSU violated Title IX by allowing a transgender woman to compete on its women’s volleyball team, despite the university following binding Ninth Circuit precedent that protected transgender students from discrimination, the board said in a complaint in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. OCR’s ...