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The California Community College Athletic Association (3C2A) is under investigation to determine whether its transgender participation policy violated Title IX, officials announced Thursday.
The Department of Education and the Department of Justice’s Title IX Special Investigations Team (Title IX SIT). The announcement comes one day after the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights launched 18 Title IX investigations into school districts across the United States and two days after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on efforts to protect girls’ and women’s sports.
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A protester holds a sign in front of the United States Supreme Court in Washington, DC, U.S., Tuesday, January 13, 2026. (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“The fact that a community college athletic association has a ‘transgender participation policy’ is a resounding indictment of our culture,” Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey said in a press release. “Women’s sports are for women. Yet California Governor Gavin Newsom, despite admitting the truth in a podcast, continues to put ideology ahead of the safety and fairness of his own students. The Trump administration will not tolerate policies that erase women’s rights.
“The Title IX SIT looks forward to investigating this issue to ensure that every woman has equal access to educational programs and athletic opportunities, because equity and safety are non-negotiable.”
PK Press Club Digital has contacted the California Community College Athletic Association.
Officials denounced the organization’s policy regarding transgender athletes.
A protester for the protection of women’s sports gathers in front of the Supreme Court on January 13, 2026, in Washington, DC. Groups on both sides of the debate gathered Tuesday morning to protest as two cases banning transgender girls from joining girls’ and women’s sports teams are heard at the Supreme Court. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
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“A trans[gender] a woman…or a non-binary student-athlete who has completed at least one calendar year of testosterone suppression treatment…may compete on a women’s team.
Officials said a complaint was filed with OCR claiming the policy discriminated against at least three female athletes “on the basis of sex by allowing a male athlete to compete on a member college’s women’s volleyball team and access women’s lockers during the 2024 and 2025 seasons.”
The complaint adds that the organization “ignored female students’ complaints about harm to women when male students participate in women’s sports.”
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It is unclear which 3C2A schools were involved.
