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EXCLUSIVE: California's track and tract authorities championship volition beryllium an epicenter of governmental hostility this weekend. A household with a girl trying to triumph a rubric is "grateful" to the White House taking announcement but not satisfied with wherever things basal going into the event.
President Donald Trump called out the Golden State and Gov. Gavin Newsom successful a Truth Social station connected Tuesday morning, threatening to chopped backing to the authorities and adjacent nonstop authorities to intervene if a trans-identifying jock competes successful the girls' class astatine the meet.
Just hours later, the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) announced it would marque a flimsy regularisation alteration for this weekend's championship. The alteration allows biologically pistillate athletes who fell conscionable shy of qualifying for the title down a trans jock a accidental to vie for the rubric this weekend.
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Katie McGuinness of La Canada finished seventh successful the women's precocious leap invitational during the 2025 Arcadia Invitational astatine Arcadia High School successful Arcadia connected Saturday, April 12, 2025. (Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images)
Meanwhile, La Canada High School prima Katie McGuinness looks to vie for the girls' agelong leap title aft qualifying automatically past weekend. But McGuinness has truthful acold lone managed to decorativeness down the trans jock astatine postseason events this year, including the sectional last connected May 17, erstwhile she finished 2nd to her Jurupa Valley opponent.
The McGuinness household addressed the president's involution successful the concern successful an exclusive connection to Fox News Digital.
"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.
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 manner, due to the fact that this is simply a truly time-sensitive issue."
The La Canada prima besides recounted the acquisition of facing the jock and facing evident "genetic" disadvantages successful a high-stakes precocious schoolhouse competition.
"I retrieve reasoning to myself, ‘OK, I request to get a large jump,’" McGuinness said.
Katie McGuinness of La Canada finished seventh successful the girls' precocious leap invitational astatine Arcadia High School successful Arcadia, Calif., 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 senior, 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."
She 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 trans jock has dominated the girls' postseason this twelvemonth successful the triple leap and agelong leap and is acceptable to vie for the authorities rubric connected Saturday. The jock competes for Jurupa Valley High School successful Riverside County, California, a assemblage that has been rocked by aggregate controversies involving trans athletes, including a suit involving a abstracted concern astatine Martin Luther King High School.
The CIF is already nether a national Title IX probe by the U.S. Department of Education.
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 bid but alternatively comply with California's authorities law.
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 authorities legislature failed to walk 2 bills that would reverse this argumentation connected April 1, contempt the grounds of aggregate pistillate athletes and their families successful California who person been affected by the issue.
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Newsom addressed the contented during an occurrence of his podcast successful aboriginal March.
"Well, I deliberation it's an contented of fairness," Newsom told impermanent blimpish influencer Charlie Kirk. "I wholly hold with you connected that. It's profoundly unfair.
"So that's casual to telephone retired the unfairness of that. There's besides a humility and a grace … these mediocre radical are much apt to perpetrate suicide, person anxiousness and depression, and the mode that radical speech down to susceptible communities is an contented that I person a hard clip with arsenic well."
Newsom's bureau has since provided a connection supporting the CIF's determination to amend its eligibility argumentation for the title lawsuit this weekend.
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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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