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California Defies Trump Administration – Will Allow Biological Males In Female Sports
California will not prohibit biological males from competing against females in K-12 sports, becoming the second state to defy the Trump administration on the issue.
The state will now face legal action from the Trump administration.
“California has just REJECTED our resolution agreement to follow federal law and keep men out of women’s sports. Turns out Gov. Newsom’s acknowledgment that ‘it’s an issue of fairness’ was empty political grandstanding. @CAgovernor, you’ll be hearing from @AGPamBondi,” Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said.
California has just REJECTED our resolution agreement to follow federal law and keep men out of women's sports.
Turns out Gov. Newsom’s acknowledgment that “it’s an issue of fairness” was empty political grandstanding.@CAgovernor, you'll be hearing from @AGPamBondi. pic.twitter.com/wa945HtmG6
— Secretary Linda McMahon (@EDSecMcMahon) July 7, 2025
More details from The Sacramento Bee:
U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon gave California 10 days from June 27 to rescind any sports prizes awarded to trans athletes and ban them after the agency’s Office of Civil Rights said that the state had violated federal anti-discrimination law by allowing transgender girls to compete with cisgender girls.
The state Department of Education’s top attorney said Monday that it would not comply with a federal agreement requiring the state to rescind any trans-inclusionary guidelines and send cisgender female athletes who lost to a trans opponent personalized apologies. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office called McMahon’s proposed agreement a “political document” that carried no weight and would force the state to illegally violate its own anti-discrimination laws.
“The CDE respectfully disagrees with OCR’s analysis, and it will not sign the proposed Resolution Agreement,” General Counsel Len Garfinkle wrote to Bradley Burke, the regional director for OCR.
The Trump administration has zeroed in on transgender rights as a galvanizing culture war issue, to some success, and often cite it as a reason for withholding federal funds to states that refuse to amend their policies to ban trans athletes.
The California Interscholastic Federation, which governs school sports, piloted a program last month allowing cisgender female athletes to advance to a statewide championship track meet if they lost a qualifying position to a trans competitor after President Donald Trump singled out 16-year-old high jumper AB Hernandez online.
“The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced the conclusion of its Title IX investigations into the California Department of Education (CDE) and the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) for allegations of discrimination against women and girls on the basis of sex. In both cases, OCR has determined that CDE and CIF are in clear violation of Title IX,” the Department of Education said in a release last month.
“The Trump Administration and the Department of Education have prioritized protecting female athletes from the unfair competition, unsafe situations, and the indignities involved when male athletes compete in athletic competitions designated for girls. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 requires schools to ensure equal opportunities for girls, including in athletic activities, but California has actively prevented this equality of opportunity by allowing males in girls’ sports and intimate spaces,” it added.
“Although Governor Gavin Newsom admitted months ago it was ‘deeply unfair’ to allow men to compete in women’s sports, both the California Department of Education and the California Interscholastic Federation continued as recently as a few weeks ago to allow men to steal female athletes’ well-deserved accolades and to subject them to the indignity of unfair and unsafe competitions,” McMahon said.
“The Trump Administration will relentlessly enforce Title IX protections for women and girls, and our findings today make clear that California has failed to adhere to its obligations under federal law. The state must swiftly come into compliance with Title IX or face the consequences that follow,” she added.
In a letter dated July 7, the California Department of Education (CDE) told OCR that it “respectfully disagrees with OCR’s analysis” and will not sign a proposed resolution agreement involving student athletic participation. https://t.co/JEixKiilX3
— The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) July 8, 2025
The Epoch Times noted:
The state’s rejection comes just days after a similar resolution agreement was reached with a Pennsylvania university. On July 1, the Department of Education announced that the University of Pennsylvania had signed a resolution agreement to resolve Title IX violations stemming from its decision to allow Lia Thomas, a male, to compete on the women’s swimming team and access female locker rooms.
Under the agreement, UPenn must restore records and titles to affected female swimmers, issue public apologies, adopt biology-based definitions of sex, and affirm that it will no longer permit male athletes to compete in women’s sports.
McMahon called the agreement “a great victory for women and girls” and said it was the result of “the Trump effect in action.”
By contrast, California’s education department has rejected the federal government’s interpretation of Title IX, asserting that the state’s gender identity protections are consistent with the U.S. Constitution and court precedent.
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