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A precocious schoolhouse track meet successful Southern California became the latest flashpoint successful the state's ongoing struggle with President Donald Trump's medication implicit trans athletes successful girls' sports. There, aggregate girls' competitors fell shy of archetypal spot to a biologically antheral trans athlete.
The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Southern Section Final connected Saturday saw the trans jock instrumentality archetypal spot successful the triple leap and agelong jump. The second-place finisher successful the agelong leap was Katie McGuinness of La Canada High School.
McGuinness recounted the acquisition of losing to the trans jock successful an interrogation connected Fox News' "America Reports."
"I retrieve reasoning to myself, ‘OK, I request to get a large jump,’" McGuinness said.
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Katie McGuinness of La Canada finished seventh successful the women's precocious leap during the Arcadia Invitational astatine Arcadia High School successful California connected April 12, 2025. (Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images)
"I ran down the runway and I landed and I watched them measurement my mark, and it was 18.9," she said. "And I conscionable retrieve reasoning that determination was thing other that I could do. That was it. And I was honestly precise discouraged, and I'm a precocious schoolhouse elder and winning CIF has ever been a extremity of mine, and I wasn't capable to vie with idiosyncratic who was genetically antithetic than me."
McGuinness made her wide stance connected the contented clear.
"There are conscionable definite familial advantages that biologic males person that biologic girls don't," she said. "Frankly, I conscionable can't basal for that."
The second-place finisher to the trans jock successful triple jump, 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.
Hogan had conscionable competed against the trans jock successful the prelims a week earlier. At that event, Hogan besides came successful down the trans jock successful the triple jump, finishing third, and would person placed 1 spot higher were it not for the trans athlete. But Hogan did decorativeness up of the trans jock successful the precocious jump.
"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."
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 California. (Kirby Lee/Getty Images)
Hogan besides spoke astatine a property league to protestation the trans jock astatine the prelims and wore a garment that read, "Protect Girls Sports."
"It was thing against the jock itself, it was conscionable an contented of fairness," Hogan antecedently said. "Nothing that we tin do, nary magnitude of training, nary magnitude of hours that we enactment in, we could ne'er execute the aforesaid magnitude of advantages that a antheral tin have."
The CIF way and tract postseason has been overshadowed by the contention involving the trans athlete, garnering nationalist scrutiny against the CIF and California Gov. Gavin Newsom. A U.S. Department of Education spokesperson sent a informing to the authorities successful the days starring up to the CIF Southern Section final, referencing previous reports that CIF officials made competitors region their Protect Girls Sports shirts.
"CIF’s and Jurupa Valley High School’s evident flouting of national civilian rights instrumentality by allowing a antheral jock to vie successful a pistillate California way and tract [Southern Sectional Division 3 final] this Saturday, and the alleged retaliation against the girls who are protesting this, is indefensible," Julie Hartman, a Department of Education spokesperson, told Fox News Digital.
The CIF is already nether a national Title IX probe implicit the state's trans-inclusion practices. The U.S. Department of Education launched an probe against CIF successful February aft President Donald Trump signed the Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports enforcement order. The CIF was 1 of the archetypal precocious schoolhouse sports leagues successful the state to denote it would defy the order.
Newsom, successful a February occurrence of his podcast, said helium believes trans athletes competing successful girls' sports is "deeply unfair" but has not taken immoderate steps arsenic politician to alteration the state's policies. The authorities has had a instrumentality successful spot that allows trans athletes to vie with females since 2014.
"California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who, successful a startling infinitesimal of motivation clarity, precocious remarked that it was ‘deeply unfair’ for men to vie successful women’s sports," Hartman continued. "Where is Gov. Newsom now? With oregon without the governor, the Trump administration’s Department of Education’s committedness is unwavering: We volition not let institutions to trample upon women’s civilian rights. OCR’s (Office of Civil Rights) probe into CIF continues with vigor."
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The trans jock represents Jurupa Valley High School. The Jurupa Unified School District provided a connection to Fox News Digital successful effect to the Department of Education's statement.
"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 connection reads.
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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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