Federal Funding Threatened Over Transgender Policy

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The U.S. Department of Education is threatening to withhold federal funding from Connecticut school districts if they follow a state policy that allows transgender girls to compete as girls in high school sports, the Associated Press reported.

In response to a complaint filed last year by several cisgender female track athletes who argued that two transgender female runners had an unfair physical advantage, the federal agency's Office for Civil Rights determined in May that Connecticut's policy violates the civil rights of athletes who are not transgender.

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