Trans athletes can continue to participate in high school sports competitions, Ilelinois High School Association said this week when it affirmed its current policy in the face of requests to exclude Trans athletes by the Trump administration and republican legislators from Illinois.
President Donald Trump published a decree in February aimed at “keeping men outside of female sports” and threatened to retain federal funding from schools that did not want it. His administration this week Maine agreement Not to comply.
The IHSA announcement came to a letter published in the Republican legislators. He declared that the prosecutor General Kwame Raoul and the Human Rights Department of Illinois had informed the agency that he was required to maintain a locking policy with the law of the State. He also clarified that his Policy of Trans athletes was only applied to the competition of state series he sponsors, and that individual schools could determine whether transgender students participated during the regular season.
“Compliance with the decree could place the IHSA from compliance with the Human Rights Act of Illinois and Vice Versa,” wrote the chairman of the board of directors of the IHSA and the executive director Craig Anderson statement. “The IHSA simply wishes to comply with the law and does not take any position on which of the above is correct. Given the conflict described above, however, we are left in an untenable position. ”
Illinois law prohibits discrimination Gender identityObliging schools to protect the law of transgender students to use installations and participate in events and programs that correspond to their gender identity.
The State Sports Organization estimates that there are around 25 trans athletes out of 133,000 on the level of the state, of which about three or four are trans girls. Although the IHSA initially grants eligibility for trans athletes, it does not follow if the athlete continues to play.
IHSA declaration was a response to a Letter of 40 representatives of the Republican State Ask the IHSA to explain how he planned to modify the policy to respect Trump’s executive order. The letter argues that compliance with the order requires immediate action, concerning the use of bathrooms and changing rooms by transgender students, as well as sports participation. But a decree does not have the right of law.
“If the law of the State contradicts the federal law, the path to follow is to work in good faith to resolve this conflict – not to hide and risk losing federal dollars,” wrote the representative Tony McCombie, who represents the extreme northwest of the state, including Byron and Genoa.
He comes after an announcement from the United States Ministry of Education last month that he was Opening of a survey on civil rights In the Chicago public schools and the Deerfield 109 school district after politically conservative groups filed a complaint concerning transgender students authorized to change in the locker rooms that line up with their gender identity. The Federal Agency also claims that it is investigating the Board of Education de l’Illinois State.
Deerfield District 109 reiterated that he was Keep one’s politics Last week at a meeting where hundreds presented themselves to support the trans student targeted by initial complaints.
Federal officials have launched at least 18 other surveys on school districts, state education agencies and state athletics associations concerning policies involving transgender students, according to a tracker compiled by the publication of education.