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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Clovis-area leaders gathered connected Thursday to impulse Gov. Gavin Newsom and the authorities legislature to "protect girls sports" as the ongoing statement astir allowing transgender girls to vie successful sports with cisgendered girls continues to thrust a wedge betwixt the authorities and national governments.
This treatment comes aft a 16-year-old trans jock from Jurupa Valley qualified to vie astatine the 105th California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) State Track and Field Championship connected Friday, which is being held astatine Buchanan High School successful Clovis.
Clovis Pro Tem Mayor Diane Pierce, Assemblyman David Tangipa, Fresno County Supervisor Garry Bredefeld - arsenic good arsenic representatives for different authorities officials gathered successful Clovis connected Thursday arsenic portion of what they called the "Rally to Save Girls Sports."
Pierce urged the CIF to "restore the integrity of the girls' part successful athletics present successful California." She said that Clovis Unified has fantabulous diversion facilities and that she is arrogant that the metropolis tin big the State Track and Field Championships.
But Pierce said that the authorities legislature, the CIF, and Gov. Newsom had failed pistillate athletes, alternatively calling for a absorption connected the pupil athletes' hard enactment and achievements.
"But due to the fact that the CIF, Governor Newsom, and the authorities legislature person failed our pistillate athletes, there's a distraction that hangs similar a unreality implicit this weekend's event," Pierce said.
Pierce says that successful February, President Donald Trump signed the enforcement order, Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports, which states that acquisition institutions and diversion associations person allowed men to vie successful women’s sports. The bid reinforces the United States’ argumentation “to reason antheral competitory information successful women’s sports.”
In effect to the teenager's information successful the title this weekend, President Trump posted connected societal media, saying that he would propulsion large-scale national backing if California did not adhere to his enforcement order.
Pierce said the enforcement bid gave a wide absorption that each diversion organizations and governing bodies should guarantee that biologic males were not competing against biologic females. She said they saw that the NCAA was implementing the policies to collegiate sports successful compliance with this direction, but did not spot the CIF and the authorities legislature realign to the directives.
She said alternatively that the CIF has stated they would adhere to the authorities instrumentality - driving the authorities into this "embarrassing situation."
After this past weekend’s qualifying meets, CIF made a change that from present on, if a transgender jock wins, the adjacent highest scoring cisgendered miss would besides get an advance.
"I telephone connected CIF to bash the close thing, region biologic boys from girls' sports and reconstruct the integrity of girls' sports," Pierce said.
Pierce isn't the lone 1 who says protecting girls and restoring the integrity of girls' sports is simply a priority. State Assemblymember David Tangipa besides said that helium and his colleagues volition beryllium looking for solutions to guarantee they are protecting young girls and athletes.
Tangipa said they are moving to get backmost to the "fundamental knowing that boys are boys and girls are girls."
"Our young women merit these protected spaces. Just similar we said successful 1972," helium said.
Tangipa cited the caller alteration the CIF implemented and said it was an unfastened admittance of thing wrong. He said creating this alteration successful the mediate of title play was a disservice to each of them.
He said that having a 3rd title is unfair and asked Gov. Newsom and the authorities legislature to prioritize action.
"We volition beryllium focusing connected solutions to bring fairness to competition, to marque definite each who privation to vie tin vie successful the unfastened division, and to marque definite we are guaranteeing a spot for our girls," Tangipa said.
As for a solution, Tangipa said helium and his colleagues successful the authorities legislature are trying to bring authorities that volition bring fairness to competitions.
The 105th CIF State Track and Field Championships remain scheduled to instrumentality spot this weekend.
