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A high school track meets in southern California became the latest flashpoint in the state’s ongoing conflict with President Donald Trump’s administration over trans athletes in girls’ sports. Several girls’ competitors fell shyly for first place for a biologically male trans athlete.
California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Southern Section Final on Saturday so the trans -athlete takes first place in the triple jump and long -hop. The second place finisher in the lid -jump was Katie McGuinness from La Canada High School.
McGuinness told the experience of losing to the trans -athlete in an interview on Pakinomist’ “America Reports.”
“I remember thinking about myself,” ok, I have to have a big jump, “McGuinness said.
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Katie McGuinness of La Canada ended seventh in the women’s high -mood under Arcadia Invitational at Arcadia High School in California on April 12, 2025. (Keith Birmingham/Medianews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images)
“I ran down the runway and I landed and I saw them measuring my brand and it was 18.9,” she said. “And I just remember I thought there was nothing else that I could do. It was. And I was honestly very discouraged and I am a senior in high school and winning CIF has always been a goal for me and I was unable to compete with someone who was genetically different from me.”
McGuinness made her overall attitude towards the question clearly.
“There are just certain genetic benefits that biological men have that biological girls don’t,” she said. “Frankly, I just can’t stand it.”
The second place finishes the trans-athlete in Triple Jump, Reese Hogan from Crean Lutheran High School, made it a point to stand in first place podium place for a quick and symbolic photo up. Recordings of Hogan that took the top podium space after the Trans athlete went out viral on social media over the weekend.
Hogan had just competed against the Trans athlete in Prelims a week earlier. At this arrangement, Hogan also came in behind the Trans athlete in the triple jump that finished in third place and would have placed somewhere higher if it wasn’t for the Trans athlete. But the Hogan ended in front of the Trans at the height jump.
“It’s just a little sad just looking at. He’s obviously a really talented athlete, we’ve all seen him jump and so, and I wish him good luck, but in a boys’ department,” Hogan earlier to Pakinomist Digital told to compete against the athlete. “It’s pretty obvious the certain benefits he has, and it’s obviously just sad as a woman to see it.”
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Spectators wear Protect Girls Sports Shirts under CIF Southern Section Division 3 Track and Field Preliminaries at Nathan Shapell Memorial Stadium at Yorba Linda High School on May 10, 2025 in California. (Kirby Lee/Getty Images)
Hogan also spoke at a press conference to protest the trans -athlete at Prelims and wore a shirt that sounds “Protect Girls Sports.”
“It was nothing against the athlete himself, it was just a matter of justice,” Hogan said earlier. “Nothing that we can do, no training amount, no amounts of hours that we put in, we could never achieve the same amount of benefits a man can have.”
The CIF track after the season has been overshadowed by the controversy involving the Trans Athlet, which collects national control against CIF and California Government Manager Gavin Newsom. An American education department spokesman sent a warning to the state in the days that led to the CIF Southern Section Final, referring to previous reports that cif -officials caused competitors to remove their Protect Girls Sports shirts.
“CIFs and Jurupa Valley High School’s apparent escape of federal civil rights law by giving a male athlete the opportunity to compete in a female course and field in California [Southern Sectional Division 3 final] This Saturday, and the alleged retaliation against the girls who protest against this is unjustifiable, “Julie Hartman, a spokesman for the education department, told Pakinomist Digital.
CIF is already under a federal title IX study of the State Trans-Inclusion Practice. The US Ministry of Education launched an investigation against CIF in February after President Donald Trump signed to keep men out of women’s sporting order. CIF was one of the first high school sports leagues in the country to announce that it would defy the order.
Newsom said in a February episode of his podcast that he believes that trans athletes competing in girls’ sports are “deeply unreasonable,” but has not taken any steps as governor to change the state’s policies. The state has had a law in place that allows trans athletes to compete with women since 2014.
“California head of government Gavin Newsom, who, in a surprising moment of moral clarity, recently noted that it was ‘deeply unfair’ for men to compete in women’s sports,” Hartman continued. “Where is Gov. Newsom now? With or without the Governor, Trump Administration’s Department of Education Obligation is unwavering: We will not allow institutions to trample over women’s civil rights. OCRS (Office of Civil Rights) Investigation of CIF continues with power.”
The trans -athlete represents the Jurupa Valley High School. Jurupa Unified School District provided a statement to Pakinomist Digital in response to the Department of Education Declaration.
“JUSD continues to follow both California’s legislation and CIF policy on schooletics. Both state legislation and CIF policy currently require students to be allowed to participate in athletic teams and competitions that are in line with their gender identity, regardless of the gender listed on Pupil’s Records. State state laws, “declares.
