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California's way and tract authorities title is getting a last-minute tweak successful its eligibility rules aft President Donald Trump called retired a transgender jock contention that's rocking the Golden State.
The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) provided a connection to Fox News Digital connected Tuesday, conscionable hours aft Trump sent a Truth Social station threatening to withhold national backing from the state, announcing the change. The contention volition present see biologically pistillate athletes that missed retired connected qualifying for the contention that whitethorn person placed higher were it not for a trans athlete's participation.
The federation claims it came to the determination astatine the extremity of this past weekend's CIF Masters Qualifiers round, days earlier Trump's statement. The connection besides refers to the pistillate competitors arsenic "biological pistillate student-athlete."
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California girls' way and tract athletes protestation trans inclusion successful girls' sports astatine a postseason conscionable astatine Yorba Linda High School connected Saturday, May 10, 2025 (Courtesy of Sophia Lorey)
"The CIF values each of our student-athletes and we volition proceed to uphold our ngo of providing students with the accidental to belong, connect, and vie portion complying with California instrumentality and Education Code. With this successful mind, the CIF volition beryllium implementing a aviator introduction process for the 2025 CIF State Track and Field Championships," the connection read.
"Under this aviator introduction process, immoderate 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 believes this aviator introduction process achieves the information opportunities we question to spend our student-athletes."
The CIF is already nether a national Title IX probe by the U.S. Department of Education.
This alteration volition effect successful astatine slightest 2 competitors qualifying to vie for the authorities rubric aft falling conscionable shy of the emblematic qualification threshold connected Saturday. A trans-identified jock competing arsenic a miss for Jurupa Valley High School took archetypal spot successful the triple leap and agelong leap connected Saturday.
Trump did not place the sanction of the schoolhouse oregon jock progressive successful the concern successful his Truth Social post.
The Jurupa Unified School territory has provided a connection to Fox News Digital addressing the president's caller post.
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, California. (Kirby Lee/Getty Images)
"JUSD is required 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. We stay committed to pursuing the instrumentality arsenic written and ensuring that each students are granted the rights afforded to them successful a harmless and welcoming environment," the connection read.
After Trump signed the "No Men's successful Women's Sports" enforcement bid connected Feb. 5, the CIF was 1 of the archetypal precocious schoolhouse sports leagues successful the state to denote it would not travel the order, and alternatively comply with California's authorities law.
The CIF came nether scrutiny 2 weeks agone erstwhile Fox News Digital reported that CIF officials allegedly made girls' athletes instrumentality disconnected their "Protect Girls Sports" t-shirts astatine a sectional qualifier. The federation acknowledged the incidental to Fox News Digital.
"Per the CIF Southern Section Playoff Bulletin, each athletes indispensable beryllium dressed successful proper, schoolhouse issued, way uniforms. The student-athletes were asked to comply with this portion successful the on-field lawsuit area, arsenic they were wearing said shirts implicit their school-issued uniform," the CIF said successful a connection astatine the time.
The U.S. Department of Education past sent a warning to the authorities implicit the concern via an exclusive connection to Fox News Digital connected May 15 up of the Jurupa Valley's trans jock competing successful the sectional final.
"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 spokeswoman, told Fox News Digital.
"We volition not let institutions to trample upon women’s civilian rights. OCR’s probe into CIF continues with vigor."
After losing to the trans jock successful agelong leap astatine the sectional final, La Canada High School's Katie McGuiness urged the CIF to rapidly alteration its argumentation during an interrogation connected Fox News' "America Reports."
"I person thing against this jock arsenic a idiosyncratic and I person thing against the trans community," McGuiness said. "My connection contiguous is truly specifically to CIF and for them to enactment rapidly and successful a timely manner, due to the fact that this is simply a truly time-sensitive issue."
Trans athletes person been allowed to vie arsenic women and girls since 2014, erstwhile a instrumentality called AB 1266 went into effect, aft passing successful 2013.
The instrumentality has enabled respective arguable incidents involving trans athletes successful girls' and women's sports successful the authorities implicit the past year.
These see the San Jose State women's volleyball ungraded that prompted a suit against the schoolhouse and authorities for restoring biologic antheral Blaire Fleming without informing the remainder of the pistillate players, and a suit against the Riverside Unified School District for giving a girls' cross-country roster spot to a trans jock portion scolding students for wearing "Save Girls Sports" t-shirts.
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California precocious schoolhouse girls' athletes deterioration 'Protect Girls Sports' shirts astatine a postseason way conscionable astatine Yorba Linda High School connected Saturday, May 10, 2025. (Courtesy of Reese Hogan)
Meanwhile, Trump and his medication person enactment astir of their attraction involving countering the trans-athlete question into Maine. A Department of Justice suit against Governor Janet Mills, aggregate impermanent backing pauses and a Supreme Court lawsuit involving authorities lawmaker Laurel Libby being censured for calling retired a insignificant trans jock who won a girls' rod vault contention successful February, has rocked the New England authorities for months.
But now, Trump has turned his oculus to California, and the CIF is already moving connected accommodations to the backlash successful the midst of its existent outpouring way title controversy.
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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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