Colorado school district suing state over policy that allows trans athletes in girls sports

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A school district in Colorado is suing the state's athletic association and attorney general over the state's laws requiring schools to allow biologically male transgender athletes to compete in girls sports. 

School District 49 (D49) in El Paso County, Colorado, joined a growing list of school districts in states that allow trans athletes to compete in girls sports by changing its own policy to ensure female-only participation. 

But D49 is going a step further with preemptive legal action after observing "increasing tension between Title IX obligations and the state system that requires discrimination against female student-athletes," according to documents obtained by Fox News Digital. 

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"Knowing that the approved policy would generate opposition and potentially trigger legal challenges, D49 filed a pre-enforcement action in the Colorado District of the federal court system seeking declaratory and injunctive relief," the school district said.

The lawsuit takes aim at the Colorado High School Activities Association (CHSAA) and Attorney General Philip J. Weiser and seeks legal protection for its new policy to protect girls sports. 

The lawsuit does not come in response to a specific incident of a trans athlete competing in the district. Instead, it's a response to the state's sweeping policies conflicting with the school's obligation to abide by federal law, specifically Title IX.

"Political culture is far out of balance on gender issues. Our lawsuit seeks a rational correction to excessive accommodations,"