During 60-day review period, nonprofit stated bylaw allowing transgender student participation would remain in place.

The Trump administration is hitting back at the Minnesota State High School League's decision to follow state law and let transgender student-athletes compete according to their gender identity.

The investigations, which will be conducted by the DOE's Office for Civil Rights (OCR), are in relation to an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Feb. 5 that bans transgender girl and women student-athletes from girls' and women's sports, which is the subject of legal challenges that argue it's discriminatory.