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California High School Girls’ Track and Field Athletes will compete in the meeting of their lives this weekend under the National Spotlight at the State Championship in Clovis.
The meeting will serve as a battlefield for the ongoing cultural war over trans athletes in girls ‘sports, with a trans athlete to compete in several girls’ events. Protests and demonstrations are expected by spectators. Whether the Athletes Protest is yet to be seen.
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Several prominent former women’s athletes who have been influenced by trans -cluttering in their careers have expressed support to the girls competing to “get up” against California Interscholastic Federation during the event:
Paula Scanlan
Paula Scanlan, formerly the University of Pennsylvania swims, testifies to the House Court Committee for Constitution and limited government consultation on gender affirming care of children. (Jasper Colt-USA today)
Scanlan, a former Upenn swimmer, was forced to share a team and dressing room with Lia Thomas during the Women’s Season 2021-22. Scanlan became the first Upenn woman’s swimmer who spoke against school to allow Thomas to compete with women after the controversial season ended.
Scanlan spewed California Governor Gavin Newsom to let the situation in the state come to this point and urged all the female athlete to “get up.”
“It’s Make or Break for California. This is no longer a top species question, and even Democrats see it. Gavin Newsom couldn’t be out of contact with women more. I am very grateful that Trump administration is taking this question so seriously, and I encourage all female athletes to stand up against this. Pakinomist Digital.
Stephanie Turner
Stephanie Turner on Pakinomist Channel (Pakinomist)
Turner made global headlines in early April when she refused to compete and kneel in protest of a trans opponent at a fence match in Maryland.
Turner says she would support the girls competing in Clovis to stand up for herself this weekend as well.
“I fully support these young women standing up against men in women’s orbit and field events. CIF has stolen the competitive years of precious high school from these young ladies and compromised their athletic and school trajectories by allowing men in their category,” Turner told Pakinomist Digital.
Turner praised a young woman who has already spoken out, La Canada High School Track and Field star Katie McGuinness, who urged CIF to “take action” by changing her policy after completing number two to the trans -athlete in a section final on May 17.
“Katie McGuinness is right, this is a time -sensitive question, and CIF would make it good to give up all trans -fun policies immediately and adhere to both the president’s executive order and title IX,” Turner said.
“These women are extraordinarily brave to speak out their age. This is not easy, but women and girls all over the United States thank them for their booth!”
Payton McNabb
Payton McNabb was seriously injured after being hit in the head and the neck of a tip from a transgender-identifying man on the opposite volleyball team. (Courtesy of IW features and Payton McNabb)
McNabb suffered permanent brain damage after she was spiked in the head of a trans opponent during a high school match in 2022. She has since become a leading ambassador to stand up against trans -athletes in girls and women’s sports and testified before Congress along with Turner at a recent DOGE hearing earlier this month.
McNabb recalled girls competing in Clovis over the weekend that they have the right to get up or even “walk away” from the competition.
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“To the girls competing in California – I know exactly what it feels like to lose for a male athlete. It’s not fair, and it’s not right. You’ve been training for years and now you’re being pushed aside because officials would rather protect emotions than protect girls. You don’t owe silence to anyone,” McNabb told Pakinomist Digital.
“If you want to talk up or go out – do it. You are not alone and you are not crazy to want justice. Women have been fighting for decades to have equal opportunities in sports. Lot to take over is not progress – it goes backwards. For California’s officials – you fail these girls. You let biological men dominate their sports and take their spots. That, it’s okay. ”
Selina Soule
Track and Field -Athlet Selina Soule speaks during an event celebrating the representative’s house that passes the protection of women and girls in the sports law outside the US capital on April 20, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Soule, a former High School Track and Field Athlet in Connecticut, was one of the first young women who rose against systems that allow biological men to compete against women in 2018.
The year, as a four-time national qualification, she was forced out of a regional championship due to two trans athletes who took women’s places and who lost the chance to earn the attention of college scouts and potential scholarships because of these snubs. Then she started talking in interviews with local news sites.
“I understand exactly how all girls competing in this upcoming championship feel like I was in the same situation for 4 years during high school,” Soule told Pakinomist Digital.
Soule would not encourage California’s athletes to refuse to compete this weekend, but she would support some kind of demonstration of them.
“It’s easy for people to say that girls have to take a stand and refuse to compete against a male athlete, but it’s not easy to put it out when you have dedicated long hours of training and sacrificed things like parties or sleeps with friends to qualify for this meeting. It is a devastating and demoralization of choices that these girls are facing, and my heart breaks to them,” she said. ”
“If I could say something to every girl in this competition, it would be to compete and give it your best. You might have the chance to beat your personal best or break a school record. If you are deprived of the chance to get a higher place or just miss the podium, you may refuse to stand on the podium next to a man with an unreasonable advantage during the distorting ceremony and take your right place.
Soule later sued the state of Connecticut over its gender eligibility policy and the case is ongoing.
A title IX expert warns California of retribution against athletes protesting
Some California’s girls athletes have already taken steps to stand up to CIF this course and field after the season.
Crean Lutheran High Schooler Reese Hogan stepped up in first place on the medal podium for triple jumps on a section final on May 17 after the first place wins, Trans Athlete AB Hernandez of the Jurupa Valley High School, stepped out of it. Recordings of Hogan’s stunt became viral and helped to ignite awareness of the situation in California.
Before that, during the southern sections on May 10, several athletes wore shirts reading “Protect Girls Sports” and practiced stacking signs that called California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) for its policies, and some even spoke at a press conference that included activists opposite Transconcus.
However, Pakinomist Digital reported earlier that cif -officials forced more girls wearing the shirts to remove them, and CIF recognized that the events were taking place in a statement.
Title IX expert Ryan Bangert Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Special Counsel for the President of the Legal Advocacy Group Alliance, which defended Freedom, told Pakinomist Digital that the girls have any right to peacefully protest over the weekend’s competitions how they appear. And any retaliation from CIF against those who protest can be violations of the first change.
“California has to be careful because any sovereign entity and every government unit has an obligation to follow the commands for the first amendment, and California is no different,” Bangert said, adding that the state is under even more control if it trampling in the first change in defense of the “failing ideology” of biological cock competing in girls’ sports.
If CIF officials try to prevent girls from competing, Bangert suggested that there are legal steps they could take in response.
“I think these girls would be asked to consider all their legal rights and remedies in this situation,” Bangert said of potential prevention or retaliation against girls who choose to protest this weekend.
