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Tensions are rising among trans athletes in women's sports in Illinois. The state continues to allow men to compete and beat women in sports throughout the state.
The Youth Track Convention became the focus of national controversy after competing in a seventh grade competition with girls at the Naper Prairie Conference Convention last Wednesday. The incident prompted a series of passionate discussions that went viral on social media at the Naperville 203 Community School District board meeting on Monday.
The Illinois are now speaking out and are protecting girls' sports by asking President Donald Trump to crack down on the state and Gov. JB Pritzker.
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R-Ill. Rep. Mary Miller has called for federal intervention on the issue in a second letter to the U.S. Department of Education. Miller previously wrote a letter in early May, but has doubled over her plea for the Trump administration to intervene.
Miller's latest letter calls on U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondy and Education Secretary Linda McMahon to specifically look into the Naperville case and consider withdrawing federal funds from the state, as seen in copies obtained by Fox News Digital.
“The governor of Illinois shows that by allowing men to compete in sports and use showers and locker rooms, our beautiful nation is unfair and unsafe for women and girls. My strong opinion is that school districts that allow these actions to continue should review federal funds for immediate revocation,” Miller wrote. “In the end, it is my understanding that there may have been a violation of Title IX in this athletics and I am writing this serious incident to get your attention.”
Illinois GOP Rep. Blaine Willhall is seeking federal investigations and potential results in the wake of the Naperville incident.
“President Trump should freeze every penny of federal dollars until these schools come to their senses and do the right thing with these kids,” Willhall told Fox News Digital. “It's either I believe in fairness, biological reality, common sense or not. This isn't fair. Naperville 203 engages in abusive and illegal practices that I violate Title 9.
A teenage girl opened a trans athlete scandal and turned high school into a cultural war battlefield
Illinois Rep. Mary Miller will make a statement after receiving support at a Save America rally with then-President Former Donald Trump at the Adams County Fairgrounds in Mendon, Illinois on June 25, 2022. (Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images)
Willhall was previously a leader who pressured him to follow Trump's executive order “protect men from women's sports” signed February 5th by the Illinois High School Association (IHSA).
In a public letter to Willhall and other states GOP lawmakers, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raul and the Illinois Department of Human Rights have declared that state law requires transgender athletes to participate based on gender identity.
Thus, the state and its families had to continue sharing locker rooms with biological men and teams, as they had been since 2006.
Even in Chicago Bears legend, Brian Urlacker has spoken about the issue, but the state of his hometown is being destroyed by controversy.
“Because we are men, there are certain things that can work better than women, and it's just, number one and not fair. If there was a daughter who I had to be forced to compete with men, I'm not okay with that. Another sex.”
Currently, Illinois has one federal Title IX probe on transgender being hampered by women's space, but only for one school.
The Deerfield Public Schools 109 district is facing an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education's Civil Rights Office after middle schoolers were forced to be changed by school administrators in front of trans students in the girls' locker room.
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Illinois mother Nicole Georgas shed light on the situation in March after filing a complaint with the Department of Justice and gave a school board meeting speech that went viral on social media.
Now, George continues to plague women's sports in Illinois, employing more action as he hopes the recent Naperville incident will be a turning point. She is urging the presidential administration to put more pressure on Illinois on the issue.
“After this the tide changes. My parents had enough,” Jogus told Fox News Digital. “We're on the front line. We're on the crosshairs. We need help. We need help now. In our state, nothing will change since March.
“They use these kids to pretty much test President Trump because they know they're not doing anything. They're forgetting Illinois. They're forgetting us.”
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