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EXCLUSIVE: The California precocious schoolhouse way and tract authorities title is shaping up to beryllium 1 of the most unprecedented precocious schoolhouse sports events successful caller history.
Amid a nationalist contention involving a trans jock competing successful the girls' category, the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) announced a bid of sweeping regularisation changes successful the days starring up to the lawsuit to accommodate pistillate competitors.
But present aggregate families of girls who person already been displaced by a trans jock astatine erstwhile meets person spoken retired against the federation, expressing dissatisfaction with the changes.
On Tuesday, the CIF announced it would grow the size of the title contention excavation and inviting "biological female" athletes who missed retired connected making the rubric conscionable by 1 spot owed to a trans jock finishing up of them successful past week's qualifying round.
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AB Hernandez of Jurupa Valley competes successful the girls precocious leap during the CIF Southern Section Division 3 Track and Field preliminaries astatine Nathan Shapell Memorial Stadium astatine Yorba Linda High School connected May 10, 2025 successful Yorba Linda, California. (Kirby Lee/Getty Images)
Then connected Wednesday, the federation announced it would besides admit pistillate athletes connected the medal podium if a miss who misses retired connected a medal decorativeness does truthful due to the fact that they came down a trans athlete.
Crean Lutheran way and tract prima Reese Hogan finished successful 2nd spot to trans athlete AB Hernandez of Jurupa Valley High School successful the triple leap astatine the Southern Sectional last connected May 17. Then, connected the medal podium, aft Hernandez stepped off, Hogan stepped up to the first-place spot for a photo-op to a roaring applause. The stunt went viral arsenic Hogan was praised by women's sports rights activists arsenic a heroine.
But CIF's latest regularisation changes won't beryllium giving Hogan the first-place medal for that event.
Hogan's household provided a connection from her to Fox News Digital that read, "The caller CIF regularisation changes intelligibly admit a misstep connected their part. However, what they've projected falls abbreviated of what we genuinely request for each girls crossed each sports. I placed 2nd successful CIF, and I cognize that if I hadn't been competing against a boy, I would person claimed the apical spot connected the podium."
"Unfortunately, we can't revisit that infinitesimal to rectify this injustice. This contented transcends a azygous meet, sport, oregon individual; it’s fundamentally astir the rights of each females to vie reasonably among themselves. We merit that opportunity, and we volition proceed to advocator for it."
Hogan has antecedently told Fox News Digital she finds the concern involving Hernandez "sad."
"It's conscionable benignant of bittersweet conscionable watching. He's evidently a truly talented athlete, we've each seen him leap and stuff, and I privation him the champion of luck, but successful a boys' division," Hogan antecedently told Fox News Digital astir competing against the athlete. "It's beauteous evident the definite advantages that helium has, and it's evidently conscionable bittersweet arsenic a pistillate to ticker that."
Meanwhile, the household of Hogan's Crean Lutheran teammate, Olivia Viola, besides isn't satisfied with the regularisation changes.
"While we are grateful that a fewer pistillate athletes volition regain their quality to vie astatine states and females volition gain their rightful titles astatine this weekends competition, unluckily CIFs proceedings programme doesn’t really hole anything. Women are inactive being forced to vie against biologic males. The rubric IX civilian rights of our daughters, sisters, friends and teammates are inactive being violated," Viola's household said successful a connection to Fox News Digital.
"Unfortunately, with each measurement our authorities leaders take, comes the realization that California truly has nary volition of protecting our girls successful the ways that are necessary. The aviator programme fundamentally admits that allowing biologic males to vie successful the pistillate class was a mistake. Now it’s clip for afloat people correction. There is simply a cardinal information present that indispensable beryllium upheld. Separating competitory athletics into 2 XX-XY sex categories indispensable beryllium a non-negotiable."
Olivia Viola of Crean Lutheran competes successful the girls' precocious leap during the CIF Southern Section Masters Meet astatine Moorpark High School connected May 24, 2025, successful Moorpark, Calif. (Kirby Lee/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump weighed successful connected the concern erstwhile helium sent a Truth Social station connected Tuesday morning, informing the authorities and Gov. Gavin Newsom of imaginable backing cuts and orders to section authorities to forestall a trans jock from competing successful the girls' class connected Saturday. The archetypal regularisation alteration came conscionable hours aft Trump's post.
The Department of Justice announced it would motorboat an probe into the CIF and California Attorney General Rob Bonta implicit the state's instrumentality that allows biologically antheral trans athletes to vie with girls and women connected Wednesday. The 2nd regularisation alteration took spot soon aft that announcement.
On Tuesday, the household of different girls' way prima who has been displaced by Hernandez successful the way and tract postseason, Katie McGuinness of La Canada High School, told Fox News Digital they are grateful for Trump's intervention.
"We are grateful that President Trump is warring for pistillate athletes and giving them a just changeable to vie connected a level playing field. CIF's ‘solution’ to this situation, which allows further girls to vie astatine the authorities title who different didn't suffice due to the fact that the transgender jock took their spot, isn't bully capable – it's inactive an unfair contention and an injustice to the girls competing," the household said successful a statement.
"Allowing biologic males to vie successful women’s sports is unfair, unjust and defies communal sense," the household added.
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Spectators deterioration Protect Girls Sports shirts during the CIF Southern Section Division 3 Track and Field preliminaries astatine Nathan Shapell Memorial Stadium astatine Yorba Linda High School connected May 10, 2025, successful Yorba Linda, Calif. (Kirby Lee/Getty Images)
Katie antecedently spoke retired against CIF for allowing the concern to get this acold successful an interrogation connected Fox News' "America Reports" past week.
"I person thing against this jock arsenic a person, and I person thing against the trans community," McGuinness said. "My connection contiguous is truly specifically to CIF and for them to enactment rapidly and successful a timely mode due to the fact that this is simply a truly time-sensitive issue."
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Jackson Thompson is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital. He antecedently worked for ESPN and Business Insider. Jackson has covered the Super Bowl and NBA Finals, and has interviewed iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.
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