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The largest high school district in California is the latest in the state, which adopts a decision calling for the protection of girls’ sports against trans athletes who oppose current state legislation. The resolution that went this week came weeks after a controversial incident involving a girls’ volleyball match.
The Kern High School District (KHSD) Trustee Derrek Tisinger told Pakinomist Digital that he and his colleagues had to witness a Christian school who is lost to one of the schools in his district over a trans athlete last month.
Bakersfield Christian lost his novice/Sophomore game for Ridgeview High School in the last week of September, the explanation that “as a school based on the authority of scripture, we confirm the biblical view that sex is determined by God by conceiving.”
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For tising and many of his colleagues, it was difficult to witness that this was difficult.
“People try to say, ‘Hi, it only affects a small amount of people,’ but there were probably 30 girls who rehearsed and dreamed their entire lives of playing volleyball and they didn’t get the game,” Tisinger said.
“To sit here and talk about this, it’s almost ridiculous.”
Tisingings also have sympathy for the trans athlete in its district in the center of the situation.
“This young man, he has every opportunity to play in every sport, men’s sport, he can play golf, tennis, he can do what he wants to do, but I don’t think he has the right to come in and displace a girl on a team and remove her game ability and possibly remove a chance for her to get a scholarship down the road,” he added.
Tisinger, a former teacher, led the efforts to adopt the decision written by Chino Valley Unified School Board President Sonja Shaw. Tisinger’s efforts resulted in a 3-2 adoption of voting, making the Kern High School District the 16th institution in California to adopt a decision called for the change.
“People in our society and our district know that we are concerned about biological boys playing in girls’ sports, and we don’t want it to happen,” added tising.
But Tisingings said he and many of his colleagues had to weigh potential setbacks and even litigation if they were to pass it.
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A group of activist parents and teachers sent a letter to KHSD that suggested potential litigation if they did not stand by the state’s laws to enable biological men in girls’ sports.
“Your district may be in danger of litigation, “Read a copy of the letter obtained by Pakinomist Digital.
“Your role is clear: Stay California’s Education Code. Make sure your school -free programs do not implement this discriminatory pilot policy locally. The law is on the side of justice, privacy and dignity. Let’s keep it that way.”
But Tisingings also heard the message from the federal government and President Donald Trump, who signed a executive order for schools only to allow women in girls and women’s sports or risk potential loss of federal funding. The US Department of Justice is currently suing California’s state agencies for refusing to comply with this executive order.
Tisinger believed that this decision was a way his district could choose a page in the conflict he could get back.
“We are threatened to be sued on both sides, so if we were to be sued, let’s be on the right side of this,” Tisinger said he told his colleagues at the Monday meeting to make the decision.
“The threat of losing federal funding, it is a rather serious situation, so we do not take it, I do not take it easily. I will not lose federal funding. Our school district, we have about 45,000 students. So for us it is critical that we have the federal means to pay our wonderful teachers as we have and take our students. way. ”
