Three female high school students have filed a federal lawsuit that claims Oregon’s policy of allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls sports violated Title IX protections against sex-based discrimination in educational settings.

The lawsuit was filed against Gov. Tina Kotek, a Democrat; the Oregon Department of Education; the Oregon School Athletics Association; and the Forest Grove, Newberg, and Portland school districts.

Madelyn Eischen, 18, sat out two competitions in April when she discovered she would be competing against someone believed to be a transgender girl, even though at one of the meets, the biological male did not compete. The names of the two other plaintiffs weren’t revealed in the complaint because they are minors.

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