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A school board meeting in California fell into explosive debate after a girls’ volleyball team lost to an opponent with a transgender player.
The players at Riverside Poly High School Girls’ Volleyball Team chose to get lost last Friday’s match against Jurupa Valley High School. Several parents previously told Pakinomist Digital that the perdition was in response to the presence of Trans Athlete AB Hernandez at the Jurupa Valley team.
Local parents showed up at the Riverside Unified School District Board meeting on Thursday to speak to support the girls who lost and against the school district of its current gender policies, while others spoke in support of trans athletes in girls’ sports.
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Hernandez’s mother, Nereyda Hernandez, appeared to defend ABS right to play in girls’ sports and condemned board member Amanda Vickers for having previously interviewed with Pakinomist Digital about the forfeiture last week.
“Amanda Vickers, you interviewed with Fox. You entertained and actually welcomed the harassment of my child. You are a board member. You have an oath to protect, to support all children, not just those who fit your ideas, your beliefs,” said Hernandez.
“When you allow or tolerate targeted harassment, whether online, personal or allowing false tales to be spread at board meetings, you only fail morally.
“My daughter is not the problem. The problem is coordinated external efforts often led by individuals traveling from district to district … to spread fears and put parents against each other using religion as a shield for discrimination. This has nothing to do with justice in sports and everything to do with erasing transnry children.”
A mother, Maria Correo, spoke in support of Riverside Poly players and condemned parents who allowed male children to play in girls’ sports.
“The girls, a good job. Polyp girls, we stand with you. Continue to fight because these parents who support their confused child are the problem,” Correo said. “If my child was on drugs, I would love him, but guess what? I would tell him the truth; drugs are bad for you. I wouldn’t feed him more drugs.”
Riverside became a fireplace for controversy involving trans-athletes in Girls’ Sports last year during Hernandez’s highly publicized season, and after a lawsuit was brought by two girls at Martin Luther King High School, who is alleged that a trans athlete took one of girls varsity spots on the cross-country team.
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The students at the school then started wearing T-shirts “Save Girls Sports” every week in response, after school administrators allegedly compared the shirts with swastikas, according to the trial.
A mother who only identified herself as Sandy R., called on the board members to adopt their own decision to ban trans athletes from girls’ sports and break from state legislation. A school board in California has already done this – Kern County Board of Education, earlier in August. Sandy R. referred to the trial that had been filed by the two students.
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“I want to be so proud and so honored that a RUSD family will be the ones who take an illegal and constitutional law on California,” she said.
President Donald Trump warned California and Head of Government Gavin Newsom about the state’s transgender policy in a speech on truth social Thursday.
“Any California school district that does not comply with our transient policies will not be funded. Thank you for your attention to this case!” Trump wrote in the post.
Riverside Unified School District Board meetings contained several excited moments that became viral last fall in the middle of the controversy of Martin Luther King High School.
Meanwhile, AB Hernandez was the focus of a national media firestorm in May during the athlete’s race for a California’s girls’ track and field championships. The autumn season meets that Hernandez competed in, was met with protests by female athletes and their families, who often wore “Save Girls Sports” T-shirts.
In July, the Department of Justice brought a lawsuit against California Department of Education (CDE) and CIF for its policies that have enabled biological men to compete in girls’ sports throughout the state, despite Trump signing an executive order in February to ban it.
ONE Bipartisan Survey By the Public Policy Institute of California, a majority of California residents found against biological male trans athletes competing in women’s sports.
This number included more than 70% of State school parents.
“Most Californians support that those who require transnry athletes compete for teams that matched the gender they were assigned at birth,” the vote states.
“Solid majorities in adults (65%) and probably voters (64%) support that requires transking athletes to compete on teams that match the gender they were assigned at birth, not the gender they identify with. An overwhelming majority of public school parents (71%) support such a requirement.”
