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California's precocious schoolhouse sports league made a major regularisation change to its upcoming girls' way and tract authorities title for the 2nd time successful a row.
The changes travel arsenic the authorities faces expanding pressure, some internally from its ain residents and from President Donald Trump's administration, owed to a increasing contention involving a trans athlete.
On Wednesday, the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) announced that Saturday's authorities rubric conscionable volition present grow its excavation of competitors and adjacent medal recipients to accommodate immoderate pistillate athletes that are displaced by a biologic antheral competitor.
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The CIF is specifically making this regularisation alteration for the agelong jump, precocious leap and triple leap events.
"On Friday, May, 30, if necessary, successful the precocious jump, triple leap and agelong leap qualifying events astatine the 2025 CIF State Track and Field Championships, a biologic pistillate student-athlete who would person earned the adjacent qualifying people volition besides beryllium precocious to the finals," the CIF announcement read.
"Additionally, if necessary, successful the precocious jump, triple leap and agelong leap events astatine the 2025 CIF State Track and Field Championships, a biologic pistillate student-athlete who would person earned a circumstantial placement connected the podium volition besides beryllium awarded the medal for that spot and the results volition beryllium reflected successful the signaling of the event."
The CIF's way and tract postseason has been rocked by a nationalist contention involving trans jock AB Hernandez of Jurupa Valley High School competing successful those events, and regularly dominating pistillate competition. The jock took archetypal spot successful agelong leap and triple leap astatine a sectional last and authorities qualifying circular successful the past 2 weeks.
The CIF's latest alteration comes conscionable a time aft the federation expanded the size of its rival pool.
"Any biologic pistillate student-athlete who would person earned the adjacent qualifying people for 1 of their Section's automatic qualifying entries successful the CIF State meet, and did not execute the CIF State at-large people successful the finals astatine their Section meet, was extended an accidental to enactment successful the 2025 CIF State Track and Field Championships," the CIF said Tuesday.
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)
Wednesday's alteration besides comes conscionable a time aft the household of a pistillate rival acceptable to look Hernandez successful the title told Fox News Digital that they judge the CIF expanding the rival excavation was enough.
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," said the household of La Canada girls' way prima Katie McGuinness, successful a statement.
"Allowing biologic males to vie successful women’s sports is unfair, unjust and defies communal sense," the household added.
Controversy involving Hernandez has prompted local, authorities and nationalist outrage by families and activists, portion President Donald Trump has shown helium is consenting to authorisation the authorities implicit the situation.
Trump sent a station connected Truth Social Tuesday greeting informing California and Gov. Gavin Newsom of imaginable national backing cuts to the state, and adjacent orders to nonstop section authorities to halt a trans jock from competing successful the girls' class connected Saturday.
Trump did not specifically sanction the jock oregon schoolhouse helium was referring to successful the societal media post.
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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)
But connected Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it would beryllium launching 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.
A missive of ailment informing of the probe was addressed to Jurupa Valley High School, the DOJ has told Fox News Digital. Jurupa Unified School District (JUSD) has told Fox News Digital it has not received a letter.
The DOJ's announcement lists the schoolhouse territory successful the authoritative announcement of the investigation.
JUSD has antecedently defended letting Hernandez vie successful the girls' category.
"JUSD continues to travel some California instrumentality and CIF argumentation regarding schoolhouse athletics. Both authorities instrumentality and CIF argumentation presently necessitate that students beryllium permitted to enactment successful diversion teams and competitions accordant with their sex identity, irrespective of the sex listed connected the pupil's records. JUSD remains committed to protecting the rights and information of the students we serve, successful accordance with applicable authorities and national laws," the territory said successful a erstwhile connection provided to Fox News Digital.
Other competitors person spoken retired passim the way and tract postseason against the CIF and authorities for allowing the concern to advancement to this point.
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The second-place finisher to Hernandez successful triple leap astatine a sectional last connected May 17, Reese Hogan of Crean Lutheran High School, made it a constituent to basal connected the first-place podium spot for a speedy and symbolic photograph op. Footage of Hogan taking the apical podium spot aft the trans jock stepped disconnected went viral connected societal media implicit the weekend.
"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."
Brea Olinda pupil Julia Teven was 1 of the fewer pistillate athletes to person beaten Jurupa Valley's jock this year, tying for archetypal spot successful the precocious leap astatine the sectional prelims earlier this month, portion the trans jock finished eighth.
"I genuinely judge helium doesn't person a harmful intent towards girls sports. I deliberation it's the benignant of like, CIF allowing him that's benignant of enactment him successful his position," Teven said. "I deliberation genuinely, he's just, like, being enabled by the CIF, and he's conscionable taking his accidental presented to him."
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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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