The California State University Board of Trustees sued the US Education Department Friday, claiming it violated federal law by threatening to revoke San José State University’s funding over a transgender volleyball player’s participation from 2022 to 2024.
The board of trustees allege the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights wrongly found SJSU violated Title IX by allowing a transgender woman to compete on its women’s volleyball team, despite the university following binding Ninth Circuit precedent that protected transgender students from discrimination, the board said in a complaint in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. OCR’s ...