Controversy grows as California forces schools to switch to athletics league that lets males in girls sports

The California Department of Education (CDE) has stood by its request that the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District (TTUSD) power sports associations to a league that allows biologic antheral trans athletes to vie successful girls' sports. 

The power would necessitate the schoolhouse to embark connected overmuch longer and much treacherous roadworthy trips to competing schools, causing distress and information concerns among students and parents. 

Students would person to question done California's Donner Pass, a 7,056-foot-high upland pass. During winter, the walk is known for being unsafe owed to utmost upwind conditions similar dense snowfall, beardown winds and icy roads. The precocious elevation and predominant storms lend to treacherous question conditions, including the imaginable for avalanches. 

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At a schoolhouse committee gathering this week, locals expressed their absorption to the CDE's mandate for the TTUSD to power from the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA) to the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF).

Truckee High School girls' way and tract jock Ava Cockrum spoke astir the information the commute would enforce connected her and different students. 

"It's dangerous," Cockrum said. "It conscionable doesn't look harmless astatine each … you're going to beryllium prone to danger." 

Cockrum besides protested the conception of girls having to vie against males. 

"I don't spot however it would beryllium just for pistillate athletes to vie against a biologic antheral due to the fact that they're stronger, they're taller, they're faster… It's conscionable not fair," Cockrum added. 

The teen was applauded by the locals successful attendance. 

The TTUSD has historically competed successful the NIAA owed to its adjacent proximity to Nevada schools. However, aft the NIAA changed its argumentation to lone let biologic females to vie successful girls' sports earlier this year, the CDE demanded TTUSD power to the CIF. 

TTUSD requested to hold the move, it announced successful a memo past week, "due to important logistical challenges." But the territory claims the authorities is not showing immoderate leniency and that defying the bid could effect successful fiscal and ineligible penalties.

"Last week, TTUSD received a mandatory bid from the California Department of Education (CDE) ordering our diversion programs to determination to the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) opening successful the 2026/2027 schoolhouse twelvemonth owed to a ceremonial ailment filed against TTUSD," the announcement read. 

"The determination is nary longer wrong the TTUSD’s section control. We are legally required to travel this CDE order… If we bash not comply, TTUSD volition beryllium violating authorities law, which could effect successful terrible fiscal penalties and ineligible enactment against the District."

The CDE provided a connection addressing the concern to ABC 10.

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A schoolhouse autobus successful downtown Truckee successful Truckee, Calif., Dec. 13, 2024.  (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

"California instrumentality requires that students beryllium permitted to enactment connected the sports squad that corresponds with their sex identity. California section acquisition agencies (LEAs) are required to travel California instrumentality careless of which state’s diversion relation they join," the connection said. 

The concern has drawn the scrutiny of respective California politicians. 

Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., called the CDE's request "a caller low. 

"This is simply a caller low. California is forcing Tahoe Truckee Unified to vie successful CA alternatively of Nevada, contempt this being impractical and unsafe for athletes whose seasons volition determination from Spring to Winter successful a snowy area. The reason: Nevada doesn't let males successful pistillate sports," Kiley wrote connected X. 

"For 40 years, Tahoe Truckee Unified has chosen to vie successful Nevada due to the fact that sports similar shot and tennis are played successful the outpouring there. In California, these are wintertime sports, which is impractical successful snowy areas similar Tahoe and presents question information concerns. 

"Yet the authorities has overridden this section determination for nary different crushed than to sphere the quality for biologic males astatine the district’s schools to vie successful the pistillate division. This volition decimate respective sports, and schools successful the territory whitethorn not adjacent beryllium capable to tract teams."

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Nevada Lieutenant Governor Stavros Anthony condemned the determination successful an X station arsenic well.

"California is forcing schools to exit Nevada, contempt decades of successfully competing successful our state. We are taking a commonsense attack with pistillate athletes. Since my Task Force connected Protecting Women’s Sports, determination has not been an incidental with men playing successful women’s sports," Anthony wrote. 

CIF is 1 of galore precocious schoolhouse sports conferences located successful bluish states to defy Trump's enforcement bid since it was signed connected Feb. 5. 

It is presently nether probe by the U.S. Department of Education for its defiance of the order, and Education Secretary Linda McMahon has warned Governor Gavin Newsom that his authorities could beryllium taxable to national backing freezes if it continues to defy. 

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