California Track Meet Turns To Political Rally Over Trans Athletes As Schools Speak Out Vs. State

A girls' way meet successful California was turned into a governmental rally connected Saturday amid a growing controversy complete a trans jock who has dominated successful nan girls' high-jump, long-jump and triple-jump this season. 

The rally came little than 2 days aft 3 of nan state's esteemed Christian precocious schools sent a missive to nan California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) challenging its longstanding argumentation that allows biologic males successful girls' sports. 

JSerra Catholic High School, Orange Lutheran High School and Crean Lutheran High School sent a associated missive to nan CIF Thursday, referencing nan trans jock who competed successful Saturday's authorities semifinal prelims. 

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"For young women, CIF’s Gender Identity Policy intends mislaid opportunities and an unlevel playing field. The consequences of this Policy will beryllium felt this play arsenic CIF’s authorities semi-final competitions for way and section events return place. Star female athletes, immoderate of whom be our schools, will soon compete successful aggregate way and section events against a antheral jock who self-identifies arsenic a female," the missive read. 

"CIF’s Gender Identity Policy besides fosters an situation that is progressively dispute to belief personnel schools. CIF’s anticipation that each faith-based schools facilitate nan CIF Gender Identity Policy puts belief schools successful nan untenable position of adhering to nan tenets of their religion successful their classrooms and communities but practicing thing contrary to their religion connected their diversion fields." 

The missive went connected to propose that immoderate of nan female athletes competing for nan 3 Christian schools considered not competing against nan trans jock successful Saturday's semifinal prelims. 

And past anterior to Saturday's meet astatine Yorba Linda High School, aggregate girls' athletes, parents and schoolhouse officials said astatine a property convention organized by California Family Council outreach head Sophia Lorey. 

"No matter really difficult we train, really galore hours we put in, reality will ever group successful that men and women are different," said Olivia Viola of Crean Lutheran. "To me, this conscionable doesn't look fair. CIF is doing thing to protect america female athletes." 

The CIF is presently nether investigation by nan U.S. Department of Education for allowing trans athletes to compete successful girls' sports, and imaginable Title IX violations. 

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California was 1 of nan first states to openly defy President Donald Trump's "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" executive bid aft he signed it connected Feb. 5. 

"The CIF provides students pinch nan opportunity to belong, connect, and compete successful education-based experiences successful compliance pinch California rule [Education Code conception 221.5. (f)] which permits students to participate successful schoolhouse programs and activities, including diversion teams and competitions, accordant pinch nan student’s gender identity, irrespective of nan gender listed connected nan student’s records," nan CIF antecedently said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. 

California Governor Gavin Newsom said during an section of his podcast that he believes trans athletes competing pinch girls is "deeply unfair." But nan politician still justified policies that alteration it for nan liking of empathy for nan trans community. 

The authorities has seen aggregate controversies erupt complete nan past twelvemonth regarding nan issue, and galore different residents and moreover immoderate schools are taking stands against nan authorities officials enforcing nan inclusion policies. 

The Redlands Unified schoolhouse committee successful San Bernardino voted successful precocious April to adopt a caller argumentation that would support transgender athletes retired of girls’ sports. 

A bipartisan survey by nan Public Policy Institute of California recovered that nan mostly of California residents reason biologic antheral trans athletes competing successful women's sports. 

That fig included much than 70% of the state's schoolhouse parents.

"Most Californians support requiring transgender athletes to compete connected teams matching nan activity they were assigned astatine birth," nan canvass stated. 

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"Solid majorities of adults (65%) and apt voters (64%) support requiring that transgender athletes compete connected teams that lucifer nan activity they were assigned astatine birth, not nan gender they place with. An overwhelming mostly of nationalist schoolhouse parents (71%) support specified a requirement."

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