Board reads White House letter and reiterates support for restricting males from girls’ sports

The Colts Neck Township Board of Education read into the record a Sept. 22 letter from the White House responding to the district’s request on girls’ athletics and reiterated the board’s position that males should not compete in female sports.

Board member Rob Scales read the president’s response aloud, which said the administration has signed an executive order and will enforce Title IX "as it was originally written" and that institutions failing to comply risk losing federal funding. Scales thanked colleagues for their "unanimous" support of the district’s stance and said the board would continue to back what it described as protections for female athletes.

The matter was presented as a communication and no formal policy change or vote on a new athletics rule was taken at the meeting. The board’s reading of the letter was announced during the communications portion of the agenda and explicitly framed as sharing the mailed response from the White House.

Next steps described at the meeting were limited to continued board support and public communication of the district’s position. No additional administrative action, rule change, or binding directive for schools was approved during the session.