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Rep. Elise Stefanik is asking for a government investigation into a school district in upstate New York. She believes the district has gone against President Trump’s directive preventing transgender athletes from participating in girls’ sports.
The Saratoga Springs City Board of Education, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Republican congresswoman from New York, approved a resolution named “Affirming Our Support for Every Student” on March 27. This resolution asserts that transgender students should be allowed to use facilities and engage in activities and sports that align with their gender identity.
The move prompted Stefanik to furiously fire off a letter Monday to US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon urging her to investigate the district.

Stefanik argues that the board’s decision contradicts both Trump’s executive order, titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” and Title IX of the federal education law. Title IX prohibits discrimination based on sex in schools and programs backed by federal funding.
The school district could lose some of its $3 million in federal funding if the US Education Department concludes it’s violating federal law and Trump’s order.
“Allowing biological males into girls’ sports and locker rooms is in direct violation of Title IX and President Trump’s executive order,” Stefanik said in her letter to McMahon, a copy of which was obtained by The Post.
“Our daughters should not be forced to compete against biological men in competitive sports or share a locker room with biological men,” the congresswoman said.
She called the Saratoga board of education’s transgender policy a “blatant violation” of federal law and Trump’s order and requested that McMahon have the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights open a formal investigation to hold it accountable and to “protect our young women and girls in sports.
“I join President Trump in his commitment to protect our nation’s girls and daughters,” Stefanik wrote. “This Far Left woke ideology has no place in our communities.”
Stefanik, who is mulling a run for governor, has also targeted the nation’s elite universities — such as Columbia and Harvard — for failing to crack down on antisemitism and hate speech during campus protests.

She co-signed a letter to Harvard President Alan Garber on Thursday demanding a massive trove of documents to determine whether the Ivy League school obeyed federal law while receiving US funding.
Stefanik is herself a Harvard graduate.
Stefanik has clashed with her alma mater in the past.
In December 2023, during a House Education and Workforce Committee hearing, Stefanik grilled the heads of Harvard, Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania over their policies to combat antisemitism on campus.
Then-Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned a few weeks later amid a plagiarism scandal.
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bars schools from discriminating if they receive funding from the federal government.
Stefanik and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Kentucky) noted Harvard’s April 14 rejection of demands that included: establishing more merit-based hiring; ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs; reforming “programs with egregious records of antisemitism and other bias,” and stepping up admissions screening of international applicants to “prevent admitting students hostile to the American values,” including those “supportive of terrorism or antisemitism.”
The Trump administration announced a freeze on $2.2 billion in multi-year grants to the Ivy League school and $60 million in multi-year contracts, and the president has also publicly mused about stripping Harvard of its tax-exempt status.