Overview

• The Education and Health and Human Services civil-rights offices concluded the Minnesota Department of Education and the Minnesota State High School League are out of compliance for allowing transgender participation in girls’ sports and female locker rooms.
• The proposed resolution orders the state to rescind guidance permitting transgender girls in girls’ categories, issue a statewide notice separating teams and facilities by sex, adopt biology-based definitions of male and female, and submit updated training materials for federal review.
• The plan also requires restoration of records and titles to female athletes, apology letters from the state to affected girls, and annual certifications from schools and the MSHSL attesting to Title IX compliance.
• Federal officials cited a Champlin Park High School transgender softball pitcher’s dominant postseason performance as a factor that elevated the investigation.
• The MSHSL says it follows the Minnesota Human Rights Act by allowing participation based on gender identity; Attorney General Keith Ellison has sued to block federal enforcement, and a separate lawsuit by three female athletes was dismissed earlier this month.