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EXCLUSIVE: Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares published his findings of an investigation into Roanoke College, Fox News Digital learned Monday.
Miyares's research was in response to a biological male transgender swimmer who competed in the Female Team of Roanoke in 2023. Miyares concluded that the University denied the accommodation, advantages and privileges of women's women, advantages (VHRA).
Miyares also suggested that the swimmers who were discriminated against are eligible to seek financial damage because the school policy violated VHRA, according to the state code.
“A private plaintiff who has received a notice of the right to present a civil action may present a civil action under the law for compensatory and punitive damages, as well as by court order,” the report said.
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The Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares speaks during the launch event “only takes one” in Roanoke on January 30, 2024. (Only one campaign is needed)
There is currently no registered instance of a university or university in the United States that has to pay financial damage to female athletes for putting a man in his sports team. There are demands on similar situations in progress that seek financial damage, but none has advanced to the point of paying damage.
The documents obtained by Fox News Digital declared that six women swimmers in the Roanoke College team requested May travel courses administered by the school three days before a press conference occurred in which some expressed their disgust for having a transgender swimmer in his team.
“Two weeks after the press conference, the professors of Roanoke in charge of the travel terms of Japan and Greece rejected the requests of the swimmers,” Miyares said.
The documents pointed out that VHRA prohibited “illegal discrimination and reprisals by educational institutions based on sex” and that “no educational institution can” reject, retain or deny “any adaptation, advantages or privileges on the basis of sex.” Any implementation of a discriminatory policy would be considered discrimination according to the law.
The Office of the Virginia Attorney General, therefore, said that Roanoke College's policy “that forces women who participate in university sports separated by sex to compete against people with the biological advantages of male puberty deprives those women of accommodation, advantages and privileges that are made available to others in function of sex and violate the VHRA.” In addition, allow biological men to compete against women discriminate against women and that VHRA would prevent biological men against females at the university level.
Fox News Digital communicated with Roanoke College to comment.
The Female Swimming Season of Roanoke 2023 was shaken by a conflict of months between the players and the administration about the presence of the trans athlete. The controversy culminated in a press conference in October of that year, when multiple female swimmers in the team spoke publicly about their experience.
The athletes who talked originally alleged that they felt pressured by school to support the transgender swimmer because the Trans athlete expressed possible suicidal trends in response to the opposition. The swimming women alleged that the team coaches held a meeting in which the athletes voted on an online survey about whether to allow the athlete, who was in the same room, remained in the team. The vote passed, but the women claim that some of them voted “yes” by pressure to do so.
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The University issued a statement that the same week, in which President Frank Shushak Jr. expressed his support for the LGBT community of the school.
“When making this decision, the senior administration approach and the Board of Trustees was to maintain equity in the competition and protect the integrity of all athletics in the Roanoke College,” Shushak said in the statement of October 5, 2023. “We remain committed to support our LGBTQ+ community and our athlete students, all of whom are valued of our vibrant community.”
The incident arrived only more than a year after Lia Thomas competed in the NCAA championships for the University of Pennsylvania, and was compared to Thomas's controversy. Seven of the Women's Swimming Alaanake joined the current demand against the NCAA led by Riley Gaines, citing their experience in 2023.
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The members of the Swimming Team for Women Roanoke College attend a press conference. (Outkick)
In the days before the electoral victory of President Donald Trump last October, multiple Swimmers of Roanoke joined him in a demonstration in Salem, Virginia, to share his history and advocate by the laws that protect women and girls from the inclusion of trans athletes in sports.
Now, the findings of Miyares could be consistent in that demand and the broader general political and legal conflict in the US. Uu. About trans athletes in women's sports.
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