Taylor Starling still remembers the day her life changed.

On October 22, she was dropped from the Varsity cross-country team down to the Junior Varsity team at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California.

Her place was taken by a trans athlete.

“I felt angry when I was removed from my varsity team because I knew the demands were changed for him because he is transgender. I felt like my victim, hard work, and dedication doesn’t matter to my school administrators because I’m a girl. It was easy for them to push me aside and it hurt,” Starling told Pakinomist Digital.

“As for dealing with it, my family and friends have been very supportive. I also know that everything happens for a reason and God has a plan for me. I always try to find the good when things are difficult and continue.”

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Now, just five months and two weeks later, 16 years old, she has much more on her plate than just practice and homework.

She spoke in California Capitol Building in Sacramento in support of two state bills to ban trans athletes from girls’ sports and courage pro-trans-protesters that gather against the bills.

Her lawsuit against her school district and California’s legal lawyer Rob Bonta has her first court date on May 15. She is the centerpiece of a month-long movement within her school and community, where students show up every Wednesday wearing “Save Girls Sports” T-shirts, overwhelming administrative efforts to prevent it.

However, it has not been all victories for her and her family.

Her testimony could not convince the Democrat’s majority to support the two bills to ban trans athletes. Her mother, a local public schoolteacher, faces the uncertainty of her school and others throughout California, who potentially lose federal funding as the state refuses to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order to keep men out of girls’ sports.

In March, Starling had to see her sister, Abby Starling, losing a 200 m run to the same trans athlete that took her varsity place in the fall.

In addition, the attention she has received for her activism in the last few months has come up with some harder moments.

“Social media is pretty bad,” her father, Ryan Starling, told Pakinomist Digital. “You have 99 positive comments, and then you get the one comment that has called her a bigot, called her ‘c’ the word, have called her all kinds of names.”

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Her family was prepared for setback when they signed up for the fight when they were warned by their lawyer, Robert Tyler.

“When we put on this case, we had a real heart-to-heart,” Tyler told Pakinomist Digital. “I asked Taylor and Kaitlyn ‘Are you prepared to tackle this? Would you be able to go through times in her school and dislike you, call you names and call you?’ And that was they.

The family went into Trans Athlete Culture War in November when they brought a lawsuit against Riverside Unified School District with her friend and teammate Kaitlyn Slavin. They later expanded the trial to include Bonta in February in protest of the current California laws that enable trans -cluttering.

It is a lawsuit that Tyler and the families involved HOPE put a new precedent for gender eligibility in the state when it first goes to trial on May 15, when head of state and head of government Gavin Newsom refuses to bring changes and risk federal funding in the state.

In California, a law called AB 1266 Has been in effect since 2014, giving California’s students at Scholastic and Collegiate levels the right to “participate in sex-divorced school programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, and use facilities that comply with his or her gender identity, regardless of gender listed on student items.”

This law and the state’s devotion to perform it has already led to pushback from the Trump administration. Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent a formal warning at the end of March to Newsom and the rest of the state, suggesting that federal funding can be cut down to the state if it continues to enable trans -cluttering in girls’ sports.

Starlings and other California families witnessed in real time a potential model for what could soon happen to those who play all over the country in Maine. This state has taken the stage as “Ground Zero” in the Trans -Athlet Conflict as its reluctance to comply with Trump has already resulted in a USDA financing freezing last week and several potential sanctions this week.

“Good,” Ryan Starling said in response to seeing the situation in Maine, knowing that the same thing could soon play out in his state. “It’s the only thing they answer is when their financing is cut and when it actually affects their pocketbooks, it’s the only thing that makes it change.

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Students at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, wear t-shirts reading “Save Girls’ Sports” to protest on a trans athlete on the cross-country team. (Courtesy of Sophia Lorey)

“Unfortunately, it may have a bit of a hard road on some of the teachers, but our teachers are resistant.”

Taylor Starling did her part to help avoid this as she lobbed in Sacramento last week, delivering her story to support Bills AB 89 and AB 844. Both bills would have banned trans athletes from girls’ sports throughout the state and put California in line with Trump’s executive order.

Instead, the bills failed to adopt, and the Democrat Assembly Rick Zbur compared them to Nazi Germany practice. For Taylor Starling, it was a comparison that she was able to make more than the others in the room because the school administrators in Martin Luther King High, according to her trial, compared her “Save Girls Sports” t-shirts with swastikas back in November.

“I’ve already been called it by the athletic director, so now I’m kind of accustomed to it. But it was a shock to everyone else because he also called all other Nazis. So I think it caused a great reaction from everyone and they were more willing to speak against it,” she said.

“It was very sad to see democratic leadership in California was unable to stand up for us girls and the rights we deserve.”

So Taylor and her father had to leave Sacramento and go home to Riverside without any progress in significant legislative change.

Now they look forward to their first court date.

Ryan and Taylor Starling from Riverside, California. (Delivered to Pakinomist Digital)

Tyler said that in this case they are trying to get the right to review the current California’s legislation, enabling Trans -Inclusion in girls’ sports, and potentially deciding that the law is a violation of title IX.

“We will challenge it and claim that it is simply a violation of title IX that it is illegal and we hope the court will look at it and throw it out,” Tyler said. “We want this case to take the assumption that it’s time to take back our schools, it’s time to take back our girls’ sports, it’s time to take back common sense.”

The Starling family, the Slavin family and Tyler seem to take a step towards achieving a landmark decision on the issue on May 15.