Trans athlete AB Hernandez takes girls' track and field state championships in California, defying Trump

Just days aft President Donald Trump sent a warning to California astir letting a transgender jock vie successful the girls' way and tract authorities championship, the authorities allowed a trans jock to instrumentality 2 titles against pistillate competitors connected Saturday. 

AB Hernandez, a transgender pupil jock for Jurupa Valley High School, took archetypal spot successful the girls' precocious leap and triple leap astatine the state championship connected Saturday astatine Veteran's Memorial Stadium successful Clovis, California. 

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Transgender jock AB Hernandez of Jurupa Valley competes successful the girls precocious leap during the CIF State Track and Field Championships astatine Veterans Memorial Stadium connected May 30, 2025 successful Clovis, California.  (Kirby Lee/Getty Images)

Hernandez besides finished successful 2nd spot successful the precocious leap to Woodrow Wilson High School's Loren Webster, who was the lone pistillate to decorativeness up of Hernandez successful immoderate contention the trans jock competed successful this weekend. 

Hernandez antecedently took archetypal spot successful each 3 events astatine the preliminary circular connected Friday. 

However, the pistillate competitors who finished down Hernandez successful the events were each bumped up 1 spot and received the medal they would person earned had the trans jock not competed. 

The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) made a bid of sweeping regularisation changes successful the days starring up to the lawsuit to guarantee immoderate females who finished down a biologic antheral would beryllium appropriately rewarded a medal based connected wherever they placed among pistillate competitors. 

So during the medal ceremonies for the 3 events, the pistillate competitors who finished 1 spot down Hernandez had to basal adjacent to the trans jock connected the podium. 

AB Hernandez shares the first-place spot connected the triple leap podium astatine the California way and tract authorities title with a pistillate competitor. (Courtesy of Beth Bourne)

AB Hernandez shares the agelong leap second-place spot connected the medal podium with a pistillate rival astatine the California authorities way and tract championship. (Courtesy of Beth Bourne)

Still, Hernandez's beingness successful the girls' contention prompted contention and a dense protestation beingness passim the weekend. 

Conflicting protests plagued the title starting connected Friday with pro-LGBTQ protesters and pro-female protesters wielding signs, flags and covering expressing their respective messaging.

People clasp Save Girls Sports signs successful protestation of transgender jock AB Hernandez of Jurupa Valley (not pictured) during the CIF State Track and Field Championships astatine Veterans Memorial Stadium connected May 30, 2025 successful Clovis, California.  (Kirby Lee/Getty Images)

On Friday, a level flying a banner that work "No Boys successful Girls' Sports!" adjacent passed implicit the stadium. 

However, the struggle betwixt the protesters astatine 1 constituent became violent, erstwhile an LGBTQ protester allegedly struck section blimpish activistic Josh Fulfer with a emblem rod connected Friday. Footage obtained by Fox News Digital shows the LGBTQ protester Ethan Kroll look to onslaught Fulfer done a car window, and Kroll subsequently getting arrested. 

Police records obtained by Fox News Digital amusement that Kroll, a male, was arrested for battle with a deadly limb different than a firearm, obstructing a nationalist serviceman and vandalism. 

Clovis Police Sgt. Chris Hutchison told Fox News Digital nary different transgression incidents occurred astatine oregon adjacent the way conscionable Friday night. 

"Our stance is ever to let radical to workout their law close to escaped code and protest," Hutchison said. "They person a close to bash it successful a mode that isn't inciting unit oregon causing different problems. … We don't person country for unit oregon spot harm oregon thing similar that." 

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But connected Saturday, California Family Council outreach manager Sophia Lorey was escorted retired of Veteran's Memorial Stadium by CIF officials for passing retired "Save Girls' Sports" wristbands with pro-female messaging to spectators. Footage shared by Lorey connected societal media shows the confrontation betwixt her and the CIF authoritative arsenic Lorey is gestured retired of the venue. 

Lorey told Fox News Digital that she had passed the messages retired astatine erstwhile events without immoderate issues. 

"We handed retired half-page fliers astatine the prelims lawsuit and we were not told thing that we couldn't bash that," Lorey said. 

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the CIF for remark connected Lorey's video. 

Lorey and section blimpish activistic Beth Bourne told Fox News Digital that, dissimilar erstwhile events, a antheral connected a megaphone repeatedly ordered spectators not to marque disparaging comments astir immoderate competitors, officials oregon different spectators connected Saturday. 

Lorey organized a property league astatine the conscionable earlier that time wherever California 2026 gubernatorial campaigner Steve Hilton spoke successful enactment of protecting girls' sports from trans inclusion. 

Current Governor Gavin Newsom has been the taxable of predominant section and nationalist disapproval passim the way and tract postseason for enabling the trans jock to compete, contempt antecedently admitting connected his podcast that helium believes males competing successful girls' sports was "deeply unfair." 

Trump singled retired Newsom successful a Truth Social station connected Tuesday erstwhile helium threatened to chopped backing to the authorities if a trans jock was allowed to vie successful the girls' contention this weekend. But the authorities did not output to Trump, and alternatively simply passed the regularisation changes to accommodate different pistillate athletes. 

The U.S. Department of Justice announced an probe into the authorities implicit the contented connected Wednesday, and the U.S. Department of Education has been investigating the authorities implicit the contented since February. 

However, California is acold from the lone authorities that saw its girls' way and tract championships overshadowed by trans jock controversy. 

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This precise aforesaid weekend, trans athletes reportedly competed and won authorities competitions successful Maine, Washington, Oregon and Minnesota. 

Trump signed his "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" enforcement bid connected Feb. 5, but galore Democratic states person openly defied the order, resulting successful aggregate arguable situations similar the 1 involving Hernandez crossed the federation successful 2025. 

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