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President Donald Trump vowed to enforce "large-scale fines" connected the authorities of California for allowing a biologic antheral trans jock to triumph aggregate girls' authorities titles.
"A Biological Male competed successful California Girls State Finals, WINNING BIG, contempt the information that they were warned by maine not to bash so. As Governor Gavin Newscum afloat understands, ample standard fines volition beryllium imposed!" Trump wrote connected Truth Social connected Tuesday.
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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)
The bureau of California Attorney General Rob Bonta provided a connection to Fox News Digital addressing the U.S. Department of Justice sending a missive informing of a June 9 deadline to amend its policies to barroom trans athletes from girls' sports.
"We’re precise acrophobic with the Trump Administration’s ongoing threats to California schools and stay committed to defending and upholding California laws and each further laws which guarantee the rights of students — including transgender students — to beryllium escaped from favoritism and harassment. We are reviewing the missive and intimately monitoring the Trump Administration’s actions successful this space," the connection read.
Trump's station comes days aft trans jock AB Hernandez took archetypal spot successful the state's girls' precocious leap and triple jump, and 2nd spot successful the agelong jump. 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.
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)
The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) responded by amending its rules to accommodate pistillate athletes who finished down a trans jock successful the 3 events Hernandez competed in, 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.
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)
Last Wednesday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a national probe into California implicit imaginable Title IX violations regarding its argumentation allowing trans athletes successful girls' sports. The authorities had already been nether a Department of Education probe implicit the contented since February.
The DOJ announced its deadline for the authorities connected Monday.
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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.
"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 himself said helium believes trans athletes competing successful girls' sports was "deeply unfair" during an occurrence of his podcast successful March.
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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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