California plans to continue allowing trans athletes to compete in girls' sports despite Trump executive order

The State of California and its nationalist schoolhouse athletics relation has indicated it volition not autumn successful enactment with President Donald Trump's latest enforcement order to support trans athletes retired of girls' and women's sports. 

The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) said it volition proceed to travel the state's instrumentality that allows athletes to enactment arsenic whichever sex they place as, according to The San Francisco Chronicle. 

California Family Council Outreach Director Sophia Lorey told Fox News Digital that her state's intent to defy Trump's enforcement bid has made her consciousness "disgusted." 

"I americium disgusted that CIF is disregarding yesterday's enforcement bid and alternatively doubling down connected policies that are not lone unfair, but unsafe for young women crossed California. By prioritizing their idol of transgender ideology implicit the information and rights of pistillate athletes, they are knowingly exposing precocious schoolhouse girls to unsafe contention and stripping them of opportunities guaranteed for them nether Title IX," Lorey told Fox News Digital.

"One day, the CIF committee volition look backmost and recognize they chose to beryllium connected the incorrect broadside of history. They volition person to reply for wherefore they sacrificed the safety, fairness, and dignity of young girls to bow to an ideological agenda. But the remainder of america volition not basal by portion pistillate athletes are illegally prevented from competing reasonably successful their ain sports."

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President Donald Trump signs the No Men successful Women's Sports Executive Order into instrumentality successful the East Room of the White House successful Washington, D.C., connected Feb. 5, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

The NCAA announced Thursday that it has amended its argumentation connected sex eligibility truthful that biologic males are nary longer allowed to vie successful the women's class successful effect to Trump's order. 

However, astatine the younker and precocious schoolhouse level, girls whitethorn inactive beryllium astatine the mercy of authorities law.

In California, a instrumentality called AB 1266 has been successful effect since 2014, giving California students astatine scholastic and collegiate levels the close to "participate successful sex-segregated schoolhouse programs and activities, including diversion teams and competitions, and usage facilities accordant with his oregon her sex identity, irrespective of the sex listed connected the pupil’s records."

California Code of Regulations conception 4910(k) defines sex as, "A person’s existent enactment oregon perceived enactment and includes a person’s perceived identity, quality oregon behavior, whether oregon not that identity, appearance, oregon behaviour is antithetic from that traditionally associated with a person’s enactment astatine birth."

CIF Bylaw 300.D. mirrors the Education Code, stating, "All students should person the accidental to enactment successful CIF activities successful a mode that is accordant with their sex identity, irrespective of the sex listed connected a student’s records."

These laws and the consequent enabling of trans athletes to vie with girls and women successful the authorities has resulted successful aggregate controversies implicit the contented implicit the past twelvemonth alone. 

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Martin Luther King High School successful Riverside, California, is presently embroiled successful 1 of the astir contentious section controversies connected the issue.

A caller schoolhouse committee gathering by the Riverside Unified School District connected Dec. 19 featured a parade of parents berating the committee for allowing a trans jock connected the Martin Luther King girls' cross-country team. A suit filed by 2 girls connected the squad alleges that their T-shirts successful protestation of that subordinate were compared to swastikas simply due to the fact that they said "Save Girls Sports." 

The begetter of a miss who mislaid her varsity spot to the trans jock antecedently told Fox News Digital that his girl and different girls astatine the schoolhouse were told "transgenders person much rights than cisgender[s]" by schoolhouse administrators erstwhile they protested the athlete's participation.

Stone Ridge Christian High School's girls' volleyball squad was scheduled to look San Francisco Waldorf successful the Northern California Division 6 tourney but forfeited successful an announcement conscionable earlier the lucifer implicit the beingness of a trans jock connected the team.

A transgender volleyball subordinate was booed and harassed astatine an Oct. 12 lucifer betwixt Notre Dame Belmont successful Belmont, California, against Half Moon Bay High School, according to ABC 7. Half Moon Bay rostered the transgender athlete.

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California State Assembly subordinate Kate Sanchez announced connected Jan. 7 that she is introducing a measure to ban trans athletes from competing successful girls' and women's sports.

Sanchez volition suggest the Protect Girls’ Sports Act to the authorities legislature. Currently, 25 states person akin laws successful effect.

"Young women who person spent years grooming and sacrificing to vie astatine the highest level are present forced to vie against individuals with undeniable biologic advantages. It’s not conscionable unfair – it’s disheartening and dangerous," Sanchez said successful a connection announcing the bill. 

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