San Diego fails to pass measure protecting girls from trans athletes despite pleas from parents

A mediate schoolhouse successful San Diego has been thrust into section contention due to the fact that of a transgender pupil utilizing the girls' locker room. 

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors connected Tuesday voted against a measurement to transportation retired the Protection of Women and Girls successful Sports Act, which would forestall trans athletes from competing successful girls' sports oregon entering girls' locker rooms. 

Vice Chair of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors Jim Desmond brought distant the connection astatine a San Diego Board of Supervisors gathering connected Tuesday. However, the measurement did not get immoderate votes from different supervisors extracurricular of Desmond. 

"People came into the gathering with their minds already made up connected the issue," Desmond told Fox News Digital. 

"The remainder were mothers who conscionable didn't deliberation it was just oregon harmless for males to beryllium playing successful girls' oregon women's safe. So the country was astir apt 60-40 successful favour of letting them play, but I deliberation that's conscionable the turnout of who was capable to instrumentality the time disconnected and travel down here. I deliberation the immense bulk of the radical successful San Diego County hold that males should not beryllium playing successful women's and girls' sports."

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Tuesday's gathering featured respective arguments from acrophobic parents who expressed their interest implicit their daughters being forced to stock locker rooms with biologic males. 

The mediate schoolhouse wherever this contention is taking place, San Elijo Middle School, provided a connection to Fox News Digital, crediting its enabling of the transgender pupil to entree the girls' locker country to the school's work of pursuing authorities law. 

"Public schoolhouse districts successful California are governed by, and indispensable enactment successful accordance with, California authorities instrumentality and the California Education Code," San Elijo Middle School's connection reads. 

"As a California nationalist schoolhouse district, we volition proceed to travel authorities instrumentality and guidance from the California Department of Education to guarantee that each students are treated with dignity, respect, and fairness. Our territory remains committed to upholding policies that enactment each students, successful accordance with authorities protections and anti-discrimination laws."

President Donald Trump signed the "No Men successful Women's Sports" enforcement bid past Wednesday, which cuts national backing for immoderate acquisition instauration that allows biologic males to vie with girls and women. 

However, aggregate states, including California, person insisted they volition not comply with Trump's order. According to USA Facts, California nationalist schools person astir $16.8 cardinal per year, which is 13.9% oregon 1 successful each 7 dollars of nationalist schoolhouse funding, which is good supra the nationalist average. 

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, a spokesperson told Fox News Digital. 

"The CIF provides students with the accidental to belong, connect, and vie successful education-based experiences successful compliance with California instrumentality [Education Code conception 221.5. (f)] which permits students to enactment successful schoolhouse programs and activities, including diversion teams and competitions, accordant with the student’s sex identity, irrespective of the sex listed connected the student’s records," a CIF connection said. 

Desmond said that galore of his section constituents reached retired to him expressing interest and disbelief astir the state's handling of the situation. 

"They deliberation it's crazy, and I've heard questions of ‘is it adjacent legal?’" Desmond said. 

For Desmond, arsenic a Republican, helium sees the Democrat refusal to comply with Trump's bid arsenic an contented that volition proceed to harm enactment for the enactment successful his state. 

"These radical didn't get the connection successful the past predetermination and they're conscionable digging the spread deeper. They're doubling down, digging their heels successful the ground, ‘yes we’re right,'" Desmond said, adding that helium thinks and hopes the trans jock statement volition fortify Republican enactment successful California. 

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"I deliberation it's empowering america with the caller medication to basal up and bash what's right. And that's each we're trying to do, we're not trying to discriminate against anybody. If you privation to beryllium trans, if you privation to place arsenic different [gender], fine, spell for it, you person that right, but wherever bash your rights extremity and idiosyncratic else's begin? You can't person 1 lad origin 30 girls to person to permission and spell alteration immoderate spot else, that's not right, we request a amended system." 

The determination by California not to comply with Trump's bid has precocious prompted backlash and adjacent protests and threats of lawsuits by the state's residents. 

On Friday, residents gathered successful Long Beach, California, to protest extracurricular a CIF federated committee meeting. The protesters past spoke astatine the committee meeting, pleading with the CIF officials to travel the president's bid and threatening civilian lawsuits against the CIF and state. 

Currently, determination is 1 suit against the CIF and the state's lawyer general, Rob Bonta, implicit a situation astatine Martin Luther King High School involving a trans jock connected the girls' cross-country team.

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.

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That is conscionable 1 contention successful the authorities that has erupted implicit the past twelvemonth from its laws that alteration trans inclusion successful girls' sports. 

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.

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.

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