California School Trims Title IX Claims in Trans Athlete Suit

A California school district escaped most Title IX claims brought by cisgender female athletes and an advocacy group over the participation of a transgender student on the girls’ cross-country team.

Even assuming the transgender athlete displaced the plaintiffs and other cisgender female athletes, the complaint’s allegations “do not support an inference of a finding of substantial proportionality” to support their Title IX effective accommodation claim, Judge Sunshine S. Sykes of the US District Court for the Central District of California said Wednesday.

Sykes also said she couldn’t identify any program-wide imbalance or substantial disparities in the treatment between the ...