The Philadelphia School District has indicated that it will ignore a rule directing schools to ban transgender athletes from participating in sports that match their gender identities. The move comes after the state’s interscholastic athletics governing body changed a key policy regarding transgender athletes.

The PIAA voted to remove a policy that had deferred to school principals to determine an athlete’s “gender” when “questioned or uncertain,” and instead approved one that officials said was

The NJSIAA policy, originally adopted in 2009 and amended in 2017, allows transgender athletes to compete in either the gender they identify with or the gender they were assigned at birth, but not both, and does not allow an athlete to switch sport genders during a season.

US Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter Tuesday to the three states saying the Justice Department will cut federal funding to them if they continue to allow transgender athletes to play on

Pam Bondi issued letters to officials in Minnesota, Maine and Calfornia on Tuesday warning them to keep trans women from competing in girls' sports.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has warned state officials in Maine, Minnesota and California that the hammer will come down upon them if they do not abide by President Donald Trump’s executive order barring men who claim to be women from playing in women’s sports.