The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has opened a Title IX investigation into Portland Public Schools for allowing a trans-identifying male athlete to compete in women’s sports, OutKick has learned.
As OutKick previously reported, “Ada” Gallagher is a biological male who won a high school state championship in track & field last year. Gallagher has continued to compete in the girls’ division, despite President Donald Trump signing an executive order to prevent males from competing in girls’ and women’s sports.
The Department sent a letter to Kimberlee Armstrong, Superintendent of Portland Public Schools (the District), informing her that the investigation is now open.
“These allegations include allowing a male track student athlete to compete in a girls’ interscholastic track and field competition on March 19, 2025, and permitting the male athlete to use the girls’ locker room while female athletes were changing,” the OCR said in a press release.
“OCR also sent a letter notifying the Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA), the governing body for the Portland Interscholastic League, that it was opening a directed investigation into its “gender identity participation” policy, which appears to violate Title IX.”
Last week, the Oregon Department of Education released new guidelines around sex-based sports participation.