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California can’t evade Supreme Court decision on transgender sports

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The Supreme Court has called a red card on California — and the state can’t afford to ignore it.

Last month’s Supreme Court decision in the West Virginia v. B.P.J. case should put education leaders in California on notice.

The court upheld bans in 27 states against biological males participating in females’ sports.

Though the decision stopped short of completely banning the practice nationwide, states like California will be unable to continue their current transgender sports policies.

The reason is simple: The federal government has already begun to take action against California under civil rights law.

For example, the US Department of Education (DOE) Office of Civil Rights concluded its investigation into San Jose State (SJSU) earlier this year, and found the school to be in violation of Title IX because it allowed a biological male to play on the university’s women’s volleyball team.

In response, San Jose State and the entire California State University (CSU) system preemptively sued the DOE in an attempt to prevent it from enforcing its findings.

The problem that SJSU and the CSU system now have is that the Supreme Court confirmed that the term “sex” in Title IX “cannot plausibly be interpreted to refer to........

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