Track athlete who lost medal for celebration laments her punishment while trans athlete took girls' titles

California girls' way and tract prima Clara Adams and her begetter called retired the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) for stripping her of her authorities rubric implicit a solemnisation portion allowing trans jock AB Hernandez to triumph 2 golden medals astatine the authorities title past weekend. 

Adams was stripped of her rubric and disqualified for a solemnisation that progressive her spraying a occurrence extinguisher connected her shoes aft winning the girls' 400m. 

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Meanwhile, Hernandez took archetypal spot successful precocious leap and triple leap and 2nd spot successful agelong jump, contempt President Donald Trump ordering the authorities to travel his Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports enforcement bid anterior to the event. 

During an interrogation connected Fox News' "The Will Cain Show" connected Wednesday, Adams addressed the arguable examination betwixt the 2 athletes' situations. 

"It conscionable doesn't adhd up to maine successful my head," Adams said, adding that she present besides has to perchance interest astir a biologic antheral competing against her successful the future. 

"It's conscionable not fair, and past comparing the situation, it's conscionable like, ‘So, what I did was conscionable truthful not OK and inappropriate that I had to get DQ'd, but this, what is going connected implicit present successful the jumps, is due and OK." 

Adams' father, David Adams, expressed his stance connected the examination during the interrogation arsenic well. 

"It's being celebrated," helium said of Hernandez's victory, saying his household is "lost" connected the decision. 

"I watched AB Hernandez jump. AB Hernandez is talented. She tin leap against those girls, she tin leap precise well. I watched her jump, I watched myself, I saw it, and they celebrated AB Hernandez connected the podium, and Clara was disqualified for having a celebration, truthful that's wherever we're benignant of lost. Our families are mislaid connected that, we're mislaid connected that close there, we're precise mislaid connected that. 

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Transgender jock AB Hernandez of Jurupa Valley High School competes successful the girls' precocious leap during the CIF State Track and Field Championships connected May 30, 2025, successful Clovis, Calif. (Kirby Lee/Getty Images)

"I'm confused now. Do I person to interest astir AB Hernandez jumping into the 400m adjacent year?" 

David Adams besides doubled-down connected the content that the determination to revoke his daughter's rubric was racially motivated. 

"I cognize for a information that the past of our state erstwhile it comes to celebrations, erstwhile a White miss celebrates oregon a White lad celebrates, it's called, 'He’s passionate. It's bully for the sport. We request this for the sport.' But erstwhile a Black miss oregon Black lad oregon Brown miss oregon Brown boy, they celebrate, it's deemed arsenic unprofessional, unsportsmanlike, it's ghetto," helium said.

"So wherefore is it OK for 1 to observe but not the other?" 

Trump sent a informing to California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the authorities past Tuesday, threatening to chopped national backing to the authorities if a trans jock competed successful the girls' way and tract championship. 

The CIF responded by amending its rules to accommodate pistillate athletes who finished down a trans jock successful the 3 events Hernandez competed in, frankincense granting them qualification and podium finishes they would person earned had a biologically antheral jock not competed successful those events. 

This resulted successful Hernandez having to stock podium spots with the pistillate athletes who finished 1 spot down Hernandez aft the finals connected Saturday. 

A bipartisan survey by the Public Policy Institute of California recovered the bulk of California residents reason biologic antheral trans athletes competing successful women's sports. 

That fig included much than 70% of the state's schoolhouse parents.

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"Most Californians enactment requiring transgender athletes to vie connected teams matching the enactment they were assigned astatine birth," the canvass stated. 

"Solid majorities of adults (65%) and apt voters (64%) enactment requiring that transgender athletes vie connected teams that lucifer the enactment they were assigned astatine birth, not the sex they place with. An overwhelming bulk of nationalist schoolhouse parents (71%) enactment specified a requirement."

Meanwhile, Newsom said helium believed trans athletes competing successful girls' sports was "deeply unfair" during an occurrence of his podcast successful March.

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