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California’s conflict over trans athletes warms up this summer.
California Interscholastic Federation (CIF )’s Executive Committee Meeting was greeted by a cut of high protesters on Friday.
The state’s growing “Save Girls Sports” readiness, led by California Family Council, appeared outside the meeting with T-shirts, characters and even a podium for a press conference.
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Several female athletes, parents and state educational officials spoke against CIF and Governor Gavin Newsom for the policies that have enabled Trans athletes to compete in girls’ sports and triggered more controversy in the state in the past year alone.
California Family Council and Outreach Director Sophia Lorey also boasted a petition at the event, which has at least 20,074 signatures of Californians who called on CIF and Newsom to change the state’s sex -eligible policy.
Martin Luther King High School student Taylor Starling and Kaitlyn Slavin, who has brought a lawsuit against Riverside Unified School District on a situation involving a trans student at their school, the headline Athletho speakers.
Starling shared her story of losing her varsity place on the cross-country team for the trans-athlete while she had her “Save Girls Sports” T-shirts compared to swastikas.
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“This is not fair, girls like me are asked to sit down, smile and be quiet and give up what we worked so hard for, and now we are the ones who are excluded from our own teams,” Starling said.
Slavin spoke in support of his teammate Starling.
“An example of this negative domino effect is Taylor’s mental health, now affected, leading to her family being affected,” Slavin said. “Since Taylor is one of my best friends, I am now upset, but confused about how this is even allowed. Now my family is being influenced and trying to be there for me, but also having to step up and make their part to make a change.”
California filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Justice earlier this month After officials demanded The fact that the State Public Gymnasiums confirm that they will prevent transient athletes from competing in girls’ sports.
The state said in its trial that the Ministry of Justice had “no right to make such a claim” and quoted “no authority that would allow them to issue or enforce the certification question” to each local educational agency.
California defended the laws that have come into doubt that allow athletes to participate in sports “in accordance with” their gender identity and does not violate the straight protection clause in the fourteenth change.
DOJ initially announced a study of CIF for its state policies in late May, which led to the girls’ track and field state championship, containing Trans Athlete AB Hernandez, which competed in several events in the female category.
DOJ’s notice of this study cited Starling and Slavin’s trial.
