PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania’s interscholastic athletic group’s revised position on transgender athletes is “unnecessary and unlawful,” advocates say. Several groups, including the Women’s Law Project,

Kristina Moon, a senior attorney at the Education Law Center, said the changes violate state and federal civil rights protections for transgender students.

The recent updates to Pennsylvania’s gender policy on high school sports won’t stop a transgender athlete from racing against girls in the state championships.

The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association approved to remove its Transgender policy in accordance with President Donald Trump's executive order, "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports."

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

Schools in Philadelphia will continue allowing transgender athletes to participate in girls sports after Pennsylvania changed its policy to prevent it from happening.

The School District of Philadelphia will refuse to comply with President Trump's order to bar transgender athletes from female sports.

The policy shift would apply to all school districts in the state of Pennsylvania despite contradicting state laws banning gender discrimination, as well as Title IX, which bans sex-based discrimination in education, which some lawyers argue bans anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination in schools.

The decision goes against President Donald Trump's executive order and the state governing body's recent policy update.

The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association's board voted last week to remove ... to compete in prep athletics to follow President Donald Trump’s executive order. The board of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association voted last ...