16-Year-Old Runner Sues Calif. AG for Violating Title IX
12th April 2025
A 16-year-old runner at a California high school is suing Attorney General Rob Bonta over failure to enforce Title IX standards to protect female athletes.
In November, Taylor Starling, a track athlete at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, along with her teammate, Kaitlyn Slavin, filed suit against the district, alleging she lost a spot on the team to a biological male student. Now Stirling has added Bonta to the lawsuit in light of President Donald Trump’s executive order that banned males from competing in female sports.
“I felt angry when I was removed from my varsity team because I knew the requirements were changed for him because he is transgender. I felt like my sacrifice, hard work, and dedication didn’t matter to my school administrators because I am a girl. It was easy for them to push me aside and that hurt,” Starling said.
Apparently it’s not enough to be a girl to be on a girls’ team, you have to be the right kind of ‘girl’.