For the past two years, California Family Council (CFC) has faithfully attended CIF meetings, raisiedrepeated concerns and urging officials to align their policies with federal Title IX requirements. Last Friday, June 20, CFC's Outreach Director Sophia Lorey hosted a press conference alongside female athletes and their families outside the CIF executive meeting in Costa Mesa, CA. They then hand-delivered a petition to CIF signed by 20,074 individuals, including 41 state and national organizations, and 8 California Legislators calling on the CIF officials to stop allowing males to compete in girls' athletics.

Today's findings are a landmark victory for female athletes across California who have been forced to compete on an unequal playing field, one that undermines both their safety and hard-earned achievements.

"As a former CIF athlete and collegiate athlete in California, I am deeply grateful to see the US Department of Education taking action," said Sophia Lorey, Girls' Sports Advocate for California Family Council.

"I've personally heard from too many young women who have faced the injustice of being forced to compete against male athletes, losing out on championships, awards, and their right to safety. Title IX was designed to protect women like them, like me, and like the next generation of girls coming up in sports. This decision is a critical step toward restoring fairness and protecting the integrity of girls' sports in our state. We urge the California Department of Education and CIF to comply immediately and put our daughters first."

The Department of Education's resolution gives the CDE and CIF just 10 days to comply with federal law or face referral to the US Department of Justice. Required actions include the rescinding of unlawful guidance, restoring awards and records to female athletes, issuing apologies to those affected, and certifying annual Title IX compliance moving forward.

As the Department designates June as "Title IX Month" in honor of the law's 53rd anniversary, today's action underscores the enduring need to fight for true equality and protection for girls and women—in California and across the nation.

California Family Council remains committed to defending the rights of female athletes and ensuring Title IX is enforced as Congress intended—based on biological sex, not subjective gender identity.

The following section is aquotedirectly from the Department of Education's press release [Wednesday] morning:

As a result of the noncompliance finding, OCR has issued a proposed Resolution Agreement to CDE and CIF to resolve their Title IX violations. OCR has offered both entities an opportunity to voluntarily agree to change these unlawful practices within 10 days or risk imminent enforcement action, including referral to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) for proceedings.

The Department of Education's proposed Resolution Agreement requires the following action items:

(i) The CDE will issue a Notice to all recipients of federal funding (Recipients) that operate interscholastic athletic programs in California requiring them to comply with Title IX. This will specify that Title IX and its implementing regulations forbids schools from allowing males from participating in female sports and from occupying female intimate facilities, and that Recipients must adopt biology-based definitions of the words 'male' and 'female';

(ii) The CDE will issue a Notice advising Recipients that any interpretation of California state law conflicting with the Department's Resolution Agreement is preempted by federal law under Title IX;

(iii) The CDE and CIF will rescind any guidance that advised local school districts or CIF members to permit male athletes to participate in women's and girls' sports to reflect that Title IX preempts state law when state law conflicts with Title IX;

(iv) CDE will require all Recipients, including CIF, to restore to female athletes all individual records, titles, and awards misappropriated by male athletes competing in female competitions;

(v) To each female athlete to whom an individual recognition is restored, CDE will send a personalized letter apologizing on behalf of the state of California for allowing her educational experience to be marred by sex discrimination; and

(vi) The CDE will require each Recipient and CIF to submit to CDE an annual certification that the Recipient and CIF have complied with Title IX. Accordingly, CDE will also propose to OCR a Monitoring Plan to ensure that Recipients are fully complying with Title IX. Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

• Issue notices to all recipients of federal funding requiring Title IX compliance
• Adopt biology-based definitions of 'male' and 'female'
• Restore individual records, titles, and awards to female athletes
• Send personalized apology letters to affected female athletes
• Submit annual compliance certifications

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