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A school board in California voted to defy state policy and ban trans athletes from girls’ sports on Tuesday.
Kern County Board of Education approved a decision to comply with the federal definition of section IX.
The vote comes in the midst of a feud and trial between the state and President Donald Trump’s administration on the issue of men competing in girls’ sports. Now at least one school board has chosen to sit with Trump over the state authorities that have been carefully committed to keeping men in girls’ sports this year.
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Trump signed an executive order to ban men from Girls’ and Women’s Sports nationally back in February, but California was one of the first states to publicly defy the order. Defiance enabled several incidents with trans athletes competing in high school girls’ basketball, cross-country skiing and course in 2025, when California’s schools were made to continue under the state law that has protected trans-cladding in sports back to 2014.
The problem was at the forefront during the Spring High School Track and Field Postseason as the transient athlete AB Hernandez from the Jurupa Valley High School drove to two girls’ state titles.
In May, three of the state’s recognized Christian colleges sent a letter to California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) challenges its long -standing policy that allows biological men in girls’ sports. Many residents, girls’ athletes and even entire educational institutions protested the interview.
Earlier that month, Jersra Catholic High School, Orange Lutheran High School and Crean Lutheran High School sent a joint letter to CIF on Thursday.
“CIF’s gender identity policy also promotes an environment that is becoming more and more hostile to religious member schools. CIF’s expectation that all troopical schools facilitate cif gender identity policy puts religious schools in the unsustainable positions to adhere to the Tenets of their belief in their classrooms and societies, but practice something that, in contrast to their belief in their beliefs,”. ”
Now the Kern County Board of Education is the first public school board that stands up to the state and then with Trump over the question.
Maine, which is shrouded in a similar trial with Trump on the same question, so that two of its public school boards also adopt decisions in April to prohibit trans athletes locally from competing in girls’ sports.
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Trump’s Ministry of Justice is now suing both states and seeking orders for the policies that continue to enable men to compete in girls ‘sports and use girls’ dressing room.
California’s policy, “says equal athletic opportunities for girls … They also require girls to share intimate spaces, such as changing rooms, with boys causing a hostile educational environment that denies girls educational opportunities,” the lawsuit against California claims.
“The results of these illegal policies are sharp: Girls are displaced from podiums, denied prices and miss critical visibility for university scholarships and recognition.”
California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom Has said that California’s Department of Education and CIF followed laws adopted in 2013.
“I struggled with the question of justice when it came to sports,” Newsom said in response to the trial at a July event. “And we tried to find out a couple of years ago and we were not successful and we recently struggled with it.
“And my attitude is that I don’t think it’s fair, but I also think it’s degrading to talk down to people and break down the trans community. And I don’t like the way the right wing talks about the trans community. These people will just survive.”
Newsom got previously mixed answers within his party when he said he thought men who competed in girls’ sports are “deeply unreasonable” in a March episode of his podcast. Still, he has refused to commit to or even support the idea of banning men from girls’ sports.
Newsom is not named as a defendant in the DOJ Case.
ONE Bipartisan Survey By the Public Policy Institute of California, most 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.”
