A Christian high school girl’s basketball team is facing a team that includes a male athlete who identifies as a female in a playoff game scheduled for Feb. 22.
The game is occurring under the backdrop of an investigation into the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF), the state’s governing body for high school sports, by the U.S. Department of Education and its Office of Civil Rights.
The Education Department said the investigation is a result of CIF’s “publicly announced plans to violate federal antidiscrimination laws related to girls’ and women’s sports,” which includes “the possibility of allowing male athletes to compete in women’s sports and use women’s intimate facilities.”…