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A trial brought by two high school athletes on a controversy involving a Trans athlete in California has partially survived to reject.
Taylor Starling and Kaitlyn Slavin, Female Cross-Country runners at Martin Luther King secondary school in Riverside, California, filed the trial in November 2024. They alleged that a Transgenre athlete took the academic point of Starling and that they were confronted for having shown shirts that said Prothetics.
The trial alleges that the administrators of Martin Luther King compared the shirts to the “swastikas”.
Defenders include the Riverside Unified School District (RUSD), the California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond. But Bonta and Thrumonds were rejected accusations in the decision.
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Ryan and Taylor Starling of Riverside, California (Thanks to Taylor Starling)
US district judge Sunshine Sykes, who was appointed by former president Joe Biden, rejected the school district attempt to reject the complainant’s IX requests based on intentional discrimination. However, Sykes also ruled in favor of the argument of the school district according to which the students had not denounced complaints for violations of the title IX.
Sykes confirmed the position of the complainants to undergo monetary damages but excluded an injunction against the school so that the trans athlete withdrew from the team because the athlete has already graduated.
The families of Starling and Slavin and their lawyer for defenders of firms for faith and freedom consider the recent decision as a victory.
“I think the fight is far from over, but it is certainly a step in the right direction,” Kaitlyn Slavin’s father Dan Slavin said in PK Press Club Digital.
Ryan Starling, father of Taylor Starling, said the trial had gathered his family and joined other families in the region.
“It has sort of gathered our families, and it has gathered many other families,” said Starling.
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Starling and Slavin continued to frequent Martin Luther King high school while the trial continued.
“It was a bit uncomfortable, well, a lot at ease at the start of last year. … So these first weeks were quite intense,” said Dan Slavin. “They have so many friends there that it did not have huge effects on them this year. It’s always a little annoying when you probably see the administrators, but they don’t talk much about it.”
Ryan Starling added that teachers quietly support their daughters despite school policy.
“There have been many teachers like, in a way below, let them know:” Hey, we had their backs “”, he said.
Their lawyer, Juliane Fleischer, will seek to obtain more requests spent rejecting. Sykes ruled that the complainants did not want to explain how an equal treatment complaint of title IX applies to them and will allow them to modify these complaints.
“This allows us to strengthen our complaint, and this is something that we hope to do just to really aim for the harmful politics that California and the river have in place that targeted Taylor and Kaitlyn and so many other female athletes,” said Fleischer.
“The regulations can certainly be discussed, but, at this stage, it is a major request to see what the school district is really willing to do.”
Famines at the center of this trial were at the center of a broader cultural movement in their county on the issue of trans athletes in female sports.
Last year, after having gone that school administrators compared their tied t-shirts, the girls started to wear them every Wednesday and other students from the school began to join them. The administrators would have tried to punish the students who wore the shirts, putting them into detention.
But, finally, the school ceased to punish the students for carrying the shirts, and they continued to be worn every Wednesday.
Families Starling and Slavin also offered advice to families from a neighboring school, Jurupa Valley High School, to file their own complaint against the unified school district of Jurupa (Jusd) on a separate situation involving a transgender volleyball player.
The students of Jusd Hadeel Hazameh and Alyssa McPherson previously told PK Press Club Digital that Starling and Slavin were inspirations to decide to file a trial.
“There was a lot of fear with them at the very beginning,” said Ryan Starling about Hazameh and McPherson. “It takes courage. … Get in fat. School districts will not listen to you. The only thing they listen to is when you put legal action.”
Dan Slavin added: “We talked to them and their feelings of brain washing. … It was really nice to hear that our daughters inspired them, and I hope it is a runoff for everyone. I hope these girls from Jurupa Valley are now inspiring other people.”
PK Press Club Digital contacted the juD to comment.
