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EXCLUSIVE: California’s course and field state championship will be an episent of political excitement this weekend. A family with a daughter trying to win a title is “grateful” for the White House who notices but not happy with where things are going into the event.
President Donald Trump called Golden State and Head of Government Gavin Newsom in a true social speech on Tuesday morning and threatened to cut funding to the state and even send authorities to intervene if a transidentifying athlete competes in the girls category at the meeting.
Just hours later, California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) announced that it would make a small rule change for this weekend’s championship. The change gives biologically female athletes who just fell shyly to qualify for the championship behind a trans athlete a chance to compete for the title this weekend.
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Katie McGuinness of La Canada High School ended seventh in Women’s High Jump Invitational in Arcadia, California, April 12, 2025. (Keith Birmingham/Medianews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images)
Meanwhile, La Canada High School star Katie McGuinness looks to compete for the girls’ long jump championship after qualification automatically last weekend. But McGuinness has so far only managed to finish behind the Trans athlete at events after the season this year, including the section final on May 17, when she ended up in second place for her Jurupa Valley opponent.
The McGuinness family approached the president’s intervention in the situation in an exclusive statement to Pakinomist Digital.
“We are grateful that President Trump is fighting for female athletes and giving them a fair shot to compete on equal terms. CIF’s ‘Solution’ for this situation, which allows additional girls to compete at the state championship that otherwise did not qualify because the transnry athlete took their place, is not good enough – it is still an unreasonable competition and an injustice for the girls competing.”
“To allow biological men to compete in women’s sports is unfair, unfair, and troubles common sense,” the family added.
Katie previously spoke against CIF for having allowed the situation to get so far in an interview on Pakinomist ‘”America Reports’ last week.
“I have nothing against this athlete as a person, and I have nothing against the trans community,” said McGuinness. “My message today is really specific to cif and for them to act quickly and in a timely manner because this is a truly time -sensitive problem.”
La Canada star also told the experience of facing the athlete and facing apparently “genetic” disadvantages in a high school competition in high-stakes.
“I remember thinking about myself,” ok, I have to have a big jump, “McGuinness said.
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Katie McGuinness of La Canada High School ended seventh in Women’s High Jump Invitational in Arcadia, California, April 12, 2025. (Keith Birmingham/Medianews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images)
“I ran down the runway and I landed and I saw them measuring my brand and it was 18.9,” she said. “And I just remember I thought there was nothing else that I could do. It was. And I was honestly very discouraged and I am a senior in high school and winning CIF has always been a goal for me and I was unable to compete with someone who was genetically different from me.”
She made her overall attitude to the question clearly.
“There are just certain genetic benefits that biological men have that biological girls don’t,” she said. “Frankly, I just can’t stand it.”
The Trans athlete has dominated the girls’ fall this year in the triple jump and long jump and is ready to compete for the state title on Saturday. The athlete competes for Jurupa Valley High School in Riverside County, California, a society that has been shaken by several controversy involving trans athletes, including a lawsuit involving a separate situation by Martin Luther King High School.
CIF is already under a federal title IX study of the US Ministry of Education.
After Trump signed No Men’s in Women’s Sports Executive Order on February 5, CIF was one of the first high school sports leagues in the country to advertise it would not follow the order but instead comply with California’s state law.
Trans athletes have been allowed to compete as women and girls since 2014, when a law called AB 1266 came into force after walking in 2013.
The state legislature failed to adopt two bills that would reverse this policy on April 1, despite the testimony of several female athletes and their families in California, which have been influenced by the question.
Newsom addressed the question during an episode of his podcast in early March.
“Well, I think it’s a matter of justice,” Newsom Guest Conservative influencer Charlie Kirk said. “I totally agree with you about it. It’s deeply unfair.
“So it is easy to call the unreasonable of it. There is also a humility and a grace … These poor people are more likely to commit suicide, have anxiety and depression, and the way people speak down to vulnerable societies is a question that I also have difficulty with.”
Newsom’s office has since made a statement that supports CIF’s decision to change its eligibility policy to the championship event this weekend.
