Rep. Elise Stefanik is looking for a federal probe of an upstate faculty district for its “direct violation” of President Trump’s government order banning trans athletes from competing in ladies sports activities.
The Saratoga Springs Metropolis Board of Training, which is within the New York GOP congresswoman’s district, handed an “Affirming Our Support for Every Student” decision March 27 declaring that transgender college students have the “right to use facilities and partake in activities and sports consistent with their gender identity.”
The transfer prompted Stefanik to furiously fireplace off a letter Monday to US Secretary of Training Linda McMahon urging her to research the district.
Stefanik mentioned the board’s transfer violates Trump’s government order 4201, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” in addition to Title IX of federal training legislation that prohibits sex-based discrimination in colleges and packages that obtain federal funding.
The varsity district might lose a few of its $3 million in federal funding if the US Training Division concludes it’s violating federal legislation and Trump’s order.
“Allowing biological males into girls’ sports and locker rooms is in direct violation of Title IX and President Trump’s executive order,” Stefanik mentioned in her letter to McMahon, a replica of which was obtained by The Publish.
“Our daughters should not be forced to compete against biological men in competitive sports or share a locker room with biological men,” the congresswoman mentioned.
She referred to as the Saratoga board of training’s transgender coverage a “blatant violation” of federal legislation and Trump’s order and requested that McMahon have the Training Division’s Workplace of Civil Rights open a proper investigation to carry it accountable and to “shield our younger girls and ladies in sports activities.
“I join President Trump in his commitment to protect our nation’s girls and daughters,” Stefanik wrote. “This Far Left woke ideology has no place in our communities.”
Stefanik, who’s mulling a run for governor, has additionally focused the nation’s elite universities — resembling Columbia and Harvard — for failing to crack down on antisemitism and hate speech throughout campus protests.
She co-signed a letter to Harvard President Alan Garber on Thursday demanding a large trove of paperwork to find out whether or not the Ivy League faculty obeyed federal legislation whereas receiving US funding.
Stefanik is herself a Harvard graduate.
Stefanik has clashed along with her alma mater up to now.
In December 2023, throughout a Home Training and Workforce Committee listening to, Stefanik grilled the heads of Harvard, Columbia College and the College of Pennsylvania over their insurance policies to fight antisemitism on campus.
Then-Harvard President Claudine Homosexual resigned a couple of weeks later amid a plagiarism scandal.
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bars colleges from discriminating in the event that they obtain funding from the federal authorities.
Stefanik and Home Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Kentucky) famous Harvard’s April 14 rejection of calls for that included: establishing extra merit-based hiring; ending range, fairness and inclusion packages; reforming “programs with egregious records of antisemitism and other bias,” and stepping up admissions screening of worldwide candidates to “prevent admitting students hostile to the American values,” together with these “supportive of terrorism or antisemitism.”
The Trump administration introduced a freeze on $2.2 billion in multi-year grants to the Ivy League faculty and $60 million in multi-year contracts, and the president has additionally publicly mused about stripping Harvard of its tax-exempt standing.
