As was reported by the Associated Press, Ohio passed a law in 2024 that bans gender-affirming care to those under 18 and restricts biological males from competing in female sports. The state Senate overrode the veto by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine in January 2024 to pass the bill, but it did not take effect until later that year in August.
However, Accuracy in Media (AIM) went undercover in Ohio schools, posing as new-to-the-school parents of a trans male student asking if he would be able to participate in female sports. AIM has caught several schools in the state violating Title IX regulations and exposing them on video.
For example, AIM went to Princeton City Schools and caught their assistant athletic director helping the “parents” strategize ways to get their transgender child into female bathrooms and sports. The most recent case AIM caught on video was about Dayton Public School District and incriminated two school officials. A tactic discussed and encouraged in both cases was to change the gender on their child’s birth certificate and just not mention the biological gender.
A press release from Princeton Schools says that the video published by AIM was “edited in a way that misrepresents a months-old conversation.” Meanwhile, the Dayton Daily News reported that the Dayton superintendent says that the video was misleading and that it had been “very selectively edited with key details omitted.”
Linda Harvey, president of Mission: America, reports that the schools had no problem with that even though it's against Ohio law.
"Some version of ‘we would look the other way’ was voiced and put on video — these undercover videos — that showed up on these videos by six different school districts so far," informs Harvey.
The president of Accuracy in Media, Adam Guillette, says in an interview that the school officials “think they could do whatever they’d like and spend our tax dollars pushing whatever agenda they’ve got.”
Harvey thinks that as well, but she also says that State Attorney General Dave Yost is on top of the situation.
"They want to be able to do what they want to do and to continue these policies. I think there is rampant Trump derangement syndrome going on amongst so much of the educational bureaucracy," states Harvey.
