The Forest Lake School board and close to 100 school board members from districts across Minnesota are asking the state education department and the state governing body for high school athletics to comply with a Trump administration demand to bar transgender athletes from girls sports.

Forest Lake board members voted to send a letter to statewide leaders last week after a federal civil rights investigation found that Minnesota and the Minnesota State High School League had violated Title IX, federal law banning sex discrimination in education, “by allowing males to compete in female sports and occupy female intimate facilities.”

In a ruling released last Tuesday, the U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services’ civil rights offices gave the league and the state of Minnes

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