Dakota Ridge High School Athletic Director Jeff Legault sent that warning in an urgent Oct.6 email to district leadership, contradicting the official account from Jefferson County Public Schools, Colorado's second-largest school district.In internal emails provided to OutKick, Legault was addressing the fallout after a transgender athlete secured a spot on the girls' junior varsity volleyball team while dozens of female students were cut.Behind closed doors, district officials sought to keep the controversy quiet, advising staff to give brief replies, point uncomfortable female athletes to separate changing spaces and cite student privacy laws to avoid addressing the dispute publicly.TRANSGENDER ATHLETES HAVE TAKEN 2,293 CHAMPIONSHIP SPOTS FROM BIOLOGICAL WOMEN, NEW RESEARCH FINDSDakota Ridge High School gym, part of Jeffco Public Schools in Colorado, where parents allege a transgender player is on the girls’ junior varsity volleyball team while about eight girls were cut from the roster. (Jeffco Public Schools parent)In an official letter to parents, the district later described the situation as an "unfamiliar circumstance." Yet internal records show administrators had met weeks earlier to plan for the controversy, predicting both the locker room privacy concerns and the parent outrage over cut players.When those issues surfaced, central district leadership delayed.
Dakota Ridge coaches and building staff were left fielding angry calls with no approved script, caught between two separate battles over lost spots on the court and privacy in the locker room.During fall tryouts at Dakota Ridge, coaches had cut upwards of 35 girls from the program, including juniors who had earned spots during their freshman and sophomore seasons.Concerned parents pushed back, arguing the school had compromised legal protections designed to preserve athletic opportunities for girls.A transgender athlete has been playing on a Colorado JV girls volleyball team.
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