The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into a California law that permits transgender athletes to participate on female teams at state schools.

Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general who heads DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, sent letters of legal notice Wednesday to California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, Tony Thurmond, state superintendent of public instruction, the Jurupa Unified School District, and the California Interscholastic Federation, DOJ said in a news release.

DOJ is investigating whether AB 1266, a law signed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown in 2013 that allows transgender athletes to compete in the gender with which they identify, violates Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in education programs and activities that receive federal funding.

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