Minnesota's policy on transgender athletes in high school sports is leaving parents and school boards in limbo.

On Sept. 30, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services determined in a joint finding that the Minnesota Department of Education and the Minnesota State High School League both violated Title IX.

Federal officials told Minnesota to reverse the state's transgender athlete policy or lose federal funding.

The debate over discrimination and Title IX protections played out in Elk River on Monday night.

The school district was preparing to request for clarification from the MSHSL and MDE through a resolution, but school board Chairman John Anderson told WCCO that, after it went through legal, the language got soft

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