On Saturday, Fox News reported the following:
A California postseason track meet on Saturday opened with a “Save Girls’ Sports” rally outside the gates and ended in familiar fashion, as one athlete again separated from the field in the jumping events, highlighting growing concerns over competitive fairness in girls’ sports.
Saturday’s CIF Southern Section Division 3 preliminaries in Yorba Linda drew attention before competition began, with demonstrators protesting California’s policy allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls’ sports.
Inside, the focus turned to the jumping events, where biological male AB Hernandez, a senior from Jurupa Valley, competed against women and finished first across all three competitions with dominant performances.
First, let’s get our terms right–he is NOT a biological male–he is a male. His gender was NOT assigned at birth–when he arrived in this world, his parts determined his gender. Without major surgery, there is no way to change those parts.
The article concludes:
Hernandez competed under rules California has allowed for more than a decade. Those rules remain at the center of a growing conflict between state officials and federal leaders over Title IX and women’s sports. That battle has now moved into the courts, with the Department of Justice suing California over its transgender athlete policies.
In response, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office distanced the governor from the lawsuit, emphasizing he was not personally named while defending the state’s existing law.
Saturday’s prelims in Yorba Linda added more data to the growing push to keep biological males out of girls’ events.
The protest set the tone early, and by day’s end the argument had moved off the sidewalk and onto the results board, where the outcome carried real consequences.
In the long jump, Hernandez was able to jump a foot more than his female competitors. I wonder how he would have done against male competition. Female sports is not the place for mediocre male athletes.