Overview
- The family filed the federal complaint in June 2026, alleging their daughter—identified in court papers as K.M.K. and reported to be student Kallie Keeler—was sexually assaulted during a girls’ high-school wrestling match by a biological male athlete competing under Washington’s gender-identity policies.
- Alliance Defending Freedom represents the plaintiffs and frames the suit as Title IX and related claims that state and local education officials allowed the matchup and then failed to report, investigate, or remedy the incident.
- Plaintiffs say they reported the assault to school officials promptly but that district staff withheld action for nearly two months and did not notify parents in advance of matchups against male athletes, which the complaint says violated mandatory reporting and Title IX procedures.
- The Puyallup School District says it has not been formally served and cannot comment because of student-privacy rules and pending litigation, while the U.S. Department of Education opened a separate investigation into the district in February for possible Title IX violations.
- If the court grants the requested relief, the case could force changes to Washington’s rules on transgender participation, require parental notice before girls face male opponents, and shape how federal civil-rights officials enforce sex‑discrimination protections in school sports.