Trump admin probing school district for trans athlete scandal even after changing policy to follow exec order

Washington state high school athlete Frances Staudt joined 'Fox & Friends' alongside her mother, Aimee, to discuss how her refusal to play against a biological male led to a firestorm with the school district and how they are fighting back.

The U.S. Department of Education opened a Title IX investigation into the Tumwater School District (TSD) in Washington state on Friday over a widely publicized incident involving a girl being allegedly punished for refusing to play a basketball game against a trans athlete. 

A civil rights complaint was filed with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights on behalf of female TSD student Frances Staudt. The incident became so widely publicized and controversial that the school district voted 3-1 last Thursday to ban trans athletes from girls' sports, defying the current state law that orders schools to enable trans inclusion. 

It is one of the first incidents of a school district banning trans athletes from girls' sports, complying with President Donald Trump's "No Men in Women's Sports" executive order, while the state as a whole chooses to defy it. 

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"A lot of us may disagree with the executive order, but us as school board members are caught between a rock and a hard place,"  TSD board member Jill Adams said. "I support different viewpoints, I support different ways of living, but it's tough. I'm caught between, not a rock, but a boulder and a hard surface."

The board members cited the recent incident involving Staudt, and the national backlash, in its decision to ban trans athletes and comply with Trump's order.

Still, Trump's administration is still doing its due diligence in investigating the incident anyway