DENVER — A Colorado school district facing federal penalties for Title IX violations denied having 61 biological males participating in girls’ competitive sports, saying the actual number is zero.
The Jefferson County Public Schools in Littleton swung back after the Department of Education renewed its threat to pull federal funding unless the district agrees to rescind its gender-identity policies and adopt biologically based definitions of “male” and “female.”
The district said it was “shocked and disappointed” by the warning, saying Title IX’s stance on gender identity remains unresolved and disputing as “erroneous” the department’s finding that male athletes “may occupy up to 61 roster positions on girls’ sports teams.”…