High school forfeits girls volleyball game against trans player citing 'God's Word' in new gender controversy

There is much sex contention successful the satellite of California volleyball, lone this time, it's astatine the precocious schoolhouse level.

Stone Ridge Christian, a central-California precocious school, has forfeited an upcoming girls volleyball playoff lucifer successful protestation implicit the beingness of a transgender subordinate connected opposing San Francisco Waldorf.

The forfeiture comes amid the ongoing contention surrounding San Jose State's women's team, which has seen a drawstring of opponents forfeit matches to protestation the Spartans' Blaire Fleming, a prima subordinate who is reportedly transgender.

Stone Ridge Christian head Julie Fagundes revealed the determination successful a missive to squad parents, saying the schoolhouse has efficaciously decided to extremity its volleyball play alternatively than look a trans opponent.

'As galore of you know, our girls won connected Wednesday and precocious to the authorities playoffs,' work Fagundes' letter. 'Unfortunately, we were conscionable informed that our opponent, San Francisco Waldorf, has a antheral jock playing for their team.

'At SRC, we judge God's Word is authoritative and infallible,' she continued. 'It is Truth. And arsenic Genesis makes clear, God wonderfully and immutably created each idiosyncratic arsenic antheral oregon female. We bash not judge enactment is changeable and we bash not mean to enactment successful events that nonstop a antithetic message.'

But the determination to forfeit, thereby bringing the play to an end, was not made strictly connected spiritual grounds, according to Fagundes.

'We besides person a work and work to attraction for the wellness and information of our athletes,' she wrote. 'So aft consulting with our students, coaches, and staff, we person made the hard determination to forfeit Saturday's game.

'Standing for Biblical information means much than the result of a game. This is simply a heartbreaking extremity to our season, but I anticipation you volition articulation maine successful congratulating these outstanding student-athletes. SRC is arrogant of them.'

But the fallout from SRC's determination could widen beyond this season.

As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) has the close to authorisation immoderate squad that forfeits.

'Any squad that withdraws from CIF playoffs is taxable to sanctions astatine some the Section and State levels,' a CIF spokesperson told The Chronicle. 'No determination has been made astatine this clip regarding aboriginal sanctions.'

Fagundes and the SRC volleyball players were praised online for their determination to forfeit the lucifer and extremity their season.

'Agree!' 1 idiosyncratic wrote connected X. 'Courage is contagious.'

Another added: 'We are arrogant of you!! You are heroes!!'

One professional wrote that it was 'so bittersweet that these girls person worked hard to get to this point' lone to forfeit portion the 'team with the mentally sick male' gets the victory.

The CIF besides has guidelines connected the inclusion of trans athletes successful scholastic sports.

According to the organization's website, each students person the accidental to enactment 'in a mode that is accordant with their sex identity, irrespective of the sex listed connected a student's records.'

'The pupil and/or the student's schoolhouse whitethorn question reappraisal of the student's eligibility for information successful interscholastic athletics successful a sex that does not lucifer the sex assigned to him oregon her astatine birth, via the pursuing process beneath should either the pupil oregon the schoolhouse person questions oregon request guidance successful making the determination,' the CIF website reads.

'Once the pupil has been granted eligibility to enactment successful interscholastic athletics accordant with his/her sex identity, the eligibility is granted for the duration of the student's information and does not request to beryllium renewed each sports play oregon schoolhouse year.'

The CIF guarantees that 'all treatment and documentation volition beryllium kept confidential, and the proceedings volition beryllium sealed unless the pupil and household marque a circumstantial request.'

San Francisco Waldorf School present advances to look St. Vincen de Paul connected Tuesday night.

Stone Ridge Christian was founded successful 2000 with the ngo of 'assisting parents successful fulfilling' the 'God-given' work of teaching the book to students.

'Together with parents, and the church, Stone Ridge Christian School exists to amended students successful processing their unsocial God fixed (sic) potential,' work the ngo connection connected the schoolhouse website.

'Students volition beryllium equipped academically, spiritually, physically, and socially to interaction their assemblage and the satellite for God.'