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Just days after President Donald Trump sent a warning to California to let a transgender athlete compete in the girls’ free -sports state championship, the state let the state a trans athlete to take two titles against female competitors on Saturday.
AB Hernandez, a transgender athlete athlete for Jurupa Valley High School, took first place in the girls’ high -mood and triple jumps on the state championship on Saturday at Veteran’s Memorial Stadium in Clovis, California.
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Transgender Athlet AB Hernandez from Jurupa Valley competes in the girls High Jump under the CIF State Track and Field Championships at Veteran’s Memorial Stadium on May 30, 2025 in Clovis, California. (Kirby Lee/Getty Images)
Hernandez also finished in second place in the height of the Woodrow Wilson High Schools Loren Webster, who was the only female to end in front of Hernandez in any competition that Trans Athlet competed this weekend.
Hernandez took first place in all three events in the preliminary round on Friday.
However, the female competitors who ended behind Hernandez in the events were all together with a place and received the medal they would have earned if the Trans athlete did not compete.
California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) made a series of sweeping rule changes in the days that led to the event to ensure that females ending behind a biological man would be appropriately rewarded a medal based on where they placed among female competitors.
So during the medal ceremonies for the three events, the female competitors who finished somewhere behind Hernandez had to stand next to the Trans at the podium.
AB Hernandez shares the first place on the triple jump podium on California Track and Field State Championship with a female competitor. (With permission from Beth Bourne)
AB Hernandez divides the long-hopping in second place on the medal podium with a female competitor at California’s state course and field championship. (With permission from Beth Bourne)
Still, Hernandez’s presence in girls’ competition got controversy and a heavy protest presence over the weekend.
Confidential protests plagued the championship, which started on Friday with Pro-LGBTQ demonstrants and pro-women protesters who had signs, flags and clothes that expressed their respective messages.
People hold Save Girls Sports Signs in protest of transient athlete AB Hernandez from Jurupa Valley (not depicted) under the CIF State Track and Field Championships at Veteran’s Memorial Stadium on May 30, 2025 in Clovis, California. (Kirby Lee/Getty Images)
On Friday, a plane flying a banner reading “No boys in the girls’ sports!” even passed over the stadium.
However, the conflict between the protesters at one point became violent when an LGBTQ protests allegedly hit the local conservative activist Josh Fulfer with a flagpole on Friday. Recordings achieved by Pakinomist Digital showing LGBTQ demonstrant Ethan Kroll appears to attack Fulfer through a car window and Kollroll is then arrested.
Police records obtained by Pakinomist Digital Show, that Kollroll, a man, was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon than a firearm that prevented a public officer and vandalism.
Clovis Police Sgt. Chris Hutchison told Pakinomist Digital that no other criminal incidents took place on or near the track meet on Friday night.
“Our attitude is always to allow people to exercise their constitutional right to freedom of expression and protest,” Hutchison said. “They have the right to do it in a way that does not encourage violence or cause other problems. … we have no room for violence or property damage or something similar.”
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But on Saturday, California Family Council Outreach Director Sophia Lorey was escorted out of Veteran’s Memorial Stadium by CIF officials for handing out “Save Girls’ Sports” bracelets with pro-female messages to spectators. Recordings shared by Lorey on social media show the confrontation between her and the cip -official as Lorey Gstiks is gesticed out of the room.
Lorey told Pakinomist Digital that she had passed the messages at past events without any problems.
“We handed out half-pages on the tiles at the Prelims event, and we didn’t know anything that we couldn’t do it,” Lorey said.
Pakinomist Digital has reached CIF for comment on Lorey’s video.
Lorey and local conservative activist Beth Bourne told Pakinomist Digital that unlike previous events, a man at a megafon repeatedly ordered spectators not to make a ferocious comments about any competitors, officials or other spectators on Saturday.
Lorey organized a press conference at the meeting earlier on the day when California 2026 Gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton spoke to support the girls’ sports from trans -cluttering.
The current governor Gavin Newsom has been the subject of frequent local and national criticism throughout the course and field after the season to enable the Trans to compete, despite having previously admitted to his podcast that he believes that men competing in girls’ sports were “deeply unreasonable.”
Trump pointed out Newsom in a true Social Post on Tuesday as he threatened to cut back on the state of the state if a trans -athlete was allowed to compete in girls’ competition this weekend. But the state did not give after Trump, and instead only adopted the rule changes to accommodate other female athletes.
The US Department of Justice announced a study by the state on the issue on Wednesday, and the US Ministry of Education has been investigating the state of the issue since February.
However, California is far from the only state that saw its girls’ free -sports championships overshadowed by Trans Athlete -Controvers.
The same weekend, Trans allegedly competed and won state competitions in Maine, Washington, Oregon and Minnesota.
Trump signed his “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive orders on February 5, but many Democratic states have openly spotted the order, resulting in several controversial situations such as the one involving Hernandez across the country in 2025.
