Two female athletes at Washington high schools are asking the Trump administration to stop a male from competing against them during their track season.
Soleil Hoefer, a senior at Prosser High School, and Kora Lengerich, a freshman at Gonzaga Preparatory School, urged the Department of Education’s (ED) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to investigate a policy that is “violating the rights of girls’ by depriving them of equal opportunity for athletic participation and victory” in a Title IX complaint filed Wednesday by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).
Current Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) policy still allows athletes to participate in events “consistent with their gender identity,” despite President Donald Trump’s Feb. 5 executive order on “Keeping Men Out Of Women’s Sports.”
A male athlete who won last year’s female state championship in the 400-meter race continues to…
