It is ironic that the “No King” protesters are overlooking our own King Reykdal here in Washington state. In the past few months, we have published articles (and filed three federal complaints totalling hundreds of pages) against Washington’s King Reykdal for his violating the Title IX civil rights of a half million girls, violating the Title VI civil rights of one million students and the FERPA civil rights of over one million parents. We have also written articles explaining how Reykdal has and still is violating Article 6, Section 2 of the US Constitution. In addition, we have explained that Reykdal has committed Contract Fraud by signing annual Federal Certification Contracts falsely claiming our state was in compliance with Title IX, Title VI and FERPA. Reykdal’s 8 year crime wave could cost Washington taxpayers billions of dollars in lost federal funding.
The US Department of Justice recently announced that they will begin a massive investigation of all of Reykdal’s crimes. This investigation will almost certainly lead to a federal court case – a case in which the US Supreme Court has already ruled TWICE! (see background below). Reykdal is certain to lose. So one would think that Reykdal might want to at least pretend to comply with federal laws. But think again. On June 3, 2025, Darby Kaikkonen, a former high ranking OSPI Director and the current Tumwater School Board President, filed a complaint against King Reykdal in federal court to “redress violations of (her) constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, as well as state law claims arising under Washington law.”
In addition to violating her First amendment “Free Speech” rights and her Fourteenth amendment “Due Process” rights, Darby is suing for wrongful termination of her $137,000 a year job at OSPI and illegal retaliation by Reykdal who fired Darby in revenge for her vote at a February 2025 Tumwater School Board meeting.
Here is a link to Darby’s 10 page complaint against Reykdal:
https://washingtonparentsnetwork.com/phocadownload/2025%20June%20Tumwater%20Complaint%20against%20Reykdal.pdf
So what exactly did Darby do to incur the Wrath of Reykdal?
On February 27, 2025, Darby had the audacity to vote in favor of a school board resolution to honor the Title IX right of girls to fair sports opportunities. Before we get to the truly despicable actions Reykdal took against Darcy, we will briefly review some important events leading up to his truly insane behavior.
Background of Title IX and Girls Rights to Fair Sports Opportunities
Most young people do not know this but, a long time ago, girls did not have a right to fair sports opportunities. All of the money and all of the scholarships went to boys competing in boys sports. Girls were supposed to stay in the kitchen and make meals. Then, in the 1960’s, there was a Womens Rights Movement. This resulted in a law being passed in 1972 by Congress called Title IX which provided that girls must be given equal opportunities in all academic programs and athletic programs that received federal funds. In order to get federal funds, states had to sign annual Title IX Certification Contracts assuring the federal government that they were giving girls fair academic and athletic opportunities.
Things went fairly well and girls sports expanded without controversy for the next 47 years until about 2015 when a group of crazy people in the Obama Department of Education issued a scam letter claiming that Title IX was actually about defending the rights of boys pretending to be girls to enter girls bathrooms, locker rooms and play on girls sports teams.
For several years, Washington had a law on the books allowing boys who pretended to be girls to play on girls sports teams. But it was widely ignored until December 2016 when the Washington Civil Rights Commission came up with a new interpretation of a previous Washington state non-discrimination law to mean that boys here in Washington could now not only compete in girls sports but also go into girls bathrooms and locker rooms.
In January, 2017, Reykdal took office and immediately warned schools in Washington that, effective immediately, they needed to let boys in girls locker rooms, bathrooms and sports teams. In the next couple of years, Reykdal also changed the school curriculum in Washington state to promote Transgender Clubs in elementary schools. A ton of kids were soon sucked in by the propaganda that all they needed to do to change from being a boy to a girl was to change their names and pronouns.
In March 2024, Biden tried to take this crazy intepretation of Title IX nationwide with the Biden Title IX Final Rule. About 27 states sued and won a series of legal victories in federal courts all around the US. These victories culiminated in a US Supreme Court ruling in August 2024 in the case of Tennessee v Cardona (Cardona was Biden’s Education Czar). The US Supreme Court ruled that the word “sex” in Title IX meant biological sex and protected the rights of girls to their own bathrooms, locker rooms and sports leagues.
On January 9 2025, based on the US Supreme Court August 2024 decision, a federal judge issued a national order to all states and school boards to immediately comply with the plain meaning of Title IX. The judge specifically stated that allowing boys to compete in girls sports would “render Title IX to be meaningless.” Unfortunately, Reykdal refused to comply with this federal court order. Sadly, just a few weeks later, a girl was injured by being forced to play against a boy in a Tumwater High school basketball game. We described this incident in our February 28, 2025 Washington Parents Network Title IX complaint against Chris Reykdal.
Here is a brief summary taken from our Title IX compliant:
Girl injured by Biological Male in Girls Basketball Game
This incident started in 2024, when a 14 year old biological girl basketball player named Frances, attending Tumwater High School, was traumatized by seeing a large biological male who at the time was 17 years old in her Girls Locker Room. This was a male who has never taken any Trans drugs but is nevetheless allowed in the Girls Locker Room simply because that is where he prefers to be. The male was a player on an opposing team’s Girls Basketball team. When Frances told her parents about this incident, her parents assured her they would support her decision should she decide she did not want to play basketball against a biological male. Then, on February 6, 2025, the now 15 year old girl saw this same biological male now 18 years old during warmups for her teams final game of the year.
Frances told her mother she would not play against this boy. The girl’s mother asked her coach if he was aware that the opposing team had a biological male on the team. The coach replied that he was not allowed to comment about this. The coach said the mother needed to talk to the athletic director. The mother then went to the athletic director who was also at the game and asked if he was aware that the person on the other team was a boy. The athletic director replied that he “does not discriminate. We follow WIAA and Washington State law.”
The mother pointed out that just one day earlier, President Trump had signed an executive order protecting girls from having to compete against biological males. The athletic director replied that “We do not have to follow that order. We follow Washington State law.”
The mother then went back to her seat and asked her 13 year old son to video tape the game so she would have a record of what happened. A male school employee threatened her son who then stopped video taping the game. Frances remained on the bench and watched as one of her team mates was injured by the biological male and was carried off the court crying in pain (see pictures below).
This is a picture of a biological girl in a white jersey in a Tumwater High School Junior Varsity game being forced to play against a much larger and much taller biological male in a red jersey who is pretending to be a girl:
The girl in white went around the boy in an attempt to drive the lane and shoot the ball.
She drives past the boy who then basically tackles her like it was a football game. Note that the boy later said it was an accident and perhaps he lost his footing when he knocked the girl down:
The girl fell to the ground and the biological male landed on top of her:
The male was not injured but the girl remained motionless on the ground:
The male got up. But the injured girl remained face down on the ground. The male briefly looked down at the injured girl and then walked away. The official, who was a biological female, failed to call a foul on this play – despite the fact that tackling another player is not allowed in a basketball game. The girl’s teammates helped the injured girl get up with the male calmly walking away - as two officials looked on and did nothing:
None of the three officials called a foul or even called for an injury timeout. Note that the injured girl is clearly limping as she is being carried off the court by one of her teammates
The injured girl is still being helped off the court and her teammates appear to be looking at the official in disguist as he holds the ball for the opposing team.
The above images are a perfect example of why it is not safe to force girls to play against biological males. Here we have an example of a 15 year old girl being forced to play against an 18-year old biological male – a male who has never even taken Trans drugs. His shear size alone is why the girl was injured.
Even though Frances was on the bench, she got very upset at the male player injuring the female player, who was a friend of hers. From Frances’s point of view, the boy had used his large body mass to deliberately knock over her friend. After this incident, Frances looked at the biological male and said “You are a man.” Then after the game, she complained about this incident on her social media page. This is the post Frances made:
Tumwater School Board Resolution
After the February 6, 2025 basketball game, several Tumwater parents got mad at how badly their girls had been abused by being forced to play against a biological male. The parents demanded that the school board pass a resolution in favor of protecting the Title IX right of girls to fair and safe sports opportunities.
On February 27, 2025, just three weeks after the Tumwater High School Girls basketball game, the Tumwater school board, including Darby Kaikkonen, voted 3 to 1 for a Resolution in support of amendments to the rules of the Washington Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) to protect the right of girls to fair and safe sports opportunities. The amendments would have required athletes to compete based on their biological sex, not their gender identity. Here are quotes from the Tumwater School Board Resolution:
Darby explained her vote by saying she was a former competitive swimmer and thought it was important to protect girls sports. She said the issue “pits one historically marginalized group against another” : “I see myself in this issue, and most importantly, I see girls who are currently living it and the complexity of what they’re trying to work through. This is an impossible situation. These girls are faced with the same challenges that we all are, and that they can’t possibly stand up for themselves and share their voice and what they think is right without being accused of bigotry… You want to know why the voice for girls is quiet, and why so few people speak publicly about it?… It is fear.”
Here is a quote from Darby’s federal complaint:
“Kaikkonen maintains that she supported the amendments to ensure fair athletic opportunities for all students and to address concerns regarding equity and safety for female athletes. As a duly elected official, she believes she had an obligation to represent her constituents, and the freedom to do so under the First Amendment.”
On February 28, 2025, the Washington Parents Network filed a 99 page Title IX Civil Rights complaint against Chris Reykdal and Bob Ferguson for violating the Title IX rights of a half million girls here in Washington state over the past 8 years. Here is a link to our Title IX complaint:
https://washingtonparentsnetwork.com/news/washington-parents-network-title-ix-complaint
Reykdal’s office faces a federal probe of its own into its clash with a Clark County school district over the district’s gender inclusion policy. Kaikkonen’s work focused on reporting data for compliance with federal education policy, according to her lawsuit.
On March 4, 2025, Reykdal issued a threatening letter to the Tumwater School Board claiming that the proposed amendment violated state law (but failed to mention that the state law violated an important federal civil rights law called Title IX and was therefore null and void). Below is the threatening letter to the Tumwater School Board:
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On March 6, 2025, less than ten days after the vote and two days after the threatening letter, Darby was placed on administrative leave by OSPI. No reason, policy, conduct, or performance issue was identified as a basis for being being put on leave. She was prohibited from coming onto OSPI' s Old Capital Building grounds, or contacting any OSPI employee. Less than two weeks later, in a March 19 call from the office’s chief of staff, Tennille Jeffries-Simmons, she was fired. Again, no explanation was given.
As a result of her termination, Darby lost an annual salary of $137,000, including valuable health and retirement benefits. She has experienced reputational damage, anxiety, humiliation, and disruption to her family life.
Darby’s term on the Tumwater school board ends this year. She didn’t file to run for re-election. Meanwhile, King Reykdal posted the following inflamatory image on one of his social media pages:
If you agree that it is time to get replace Reykdal and Ferguson with folks more willing to honor the US Constitution, then please come to our next Washington Parents Network online meeting which will be Sunday, June 15th from 4 to 5 pm where we will review our plan to restoring Family Rights here in Washington state. For the link, send an email to
We look forward to meeting you.
Regards,
David Spring M. Ed.
Director, Washington Parents Network