Posted on 06/19/2021 6:39:33 PM PDT by Libloather
The U.S. Department of Justice is targeting West Virginia for prohibiting transgender girls and women from participating in public school sports.
Saying the law “hinders equal athletic opportunities for girls by creating an additional hurdle for participation,” Aria Vaughan, a trial attorney with the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, said the new law also discriminates against West Virginia student-athletes on the basis of sex and gender identification, in the statement filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of West Virginia.
“The State cannot point to any valid evidence that allowing transgender girls to participate on girls’ sports teams endangers girls’ athletic opportunities,” Vaughan said. “Instead, the State legislated based on misconceptions and overbroad assumptions about transgender girls. It is illogical for the State to believe it can protect girls’ athletic opportunities by barring girls from playing sports. The harm to B.P.J. is real and it will be lasting.”
The Department’s filing comes the same day that West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey filed a motion to have the state intervene as a defendant in the case.
Eleven-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson and her mother, Heather Jackson, filed a lawsuit in federal court last month after an administrator at Pepper-Jackson’s school told her West Virginia’s new law meant she couldn’t try out for her school’s cross-country team in August.
Pepper-Jackson, a transgender girl, is referred to by her initials, B.P.J., in court documents, but she was referred to by her full name in a May news release from ACLU-WV, part of her legal team.
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All high school althetes must get a physical exam before being cleared to play sports.
If you have a vagina, you can play on the girls' teams.
If you have a penis, you can play on the boys' teams.
If your junk is neither, you have to start your own team.
Easy peasy. Simple as that.
as long a it’s original equipment
IF DOJ attorney Aria Vaughn has a daughter the age of the transgendered males involved in sports, would she allow her to play against them in Lacrosse, Soccer, Basketball, Wrestling, Football, and Baseball (re hitting strengths/dangers)?
If so she should be fired and charged with “child endangerment” because one big male tranny could cripple or kill her daughter.
The Civil Rights Division is the craziest one in DOJ, full of nuts and “child abusers by default”. Biden and Obama are to blame for this and should be sued for their “reckless endangerment” and “child abuse” policies re trannies and female sports.
“…fear of transgender girls..”
They aren’t girls.
That’s what I thought 10 years ago.
Still waiting for any evidence of it.....
boy dna is boy dna....let the boys play against other boys....that is all....
U.S. Dept. of Justice misunderstands the meaning of having both an X and Y chromosome.
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I am almost positive that anyone, well, virtually anyone, must be a graduate of anything anywhere anytime and of any particular educational (? meaning?) institution.
Just what can we expect from our “government”? I exactly what?
There is no such thing as a “transgender” anything...
Only someone suffering from a metal disorder and folks around then who engage in medical and psychological malpractice.
Is it any wonder why so many folks HATE our federal gub mint?
I think you mean mentally ill boys.
It is a sad day when the United States Department of Justice cannot tell a boy from a girl.
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