Concerns raised as CIF track championships approach without clarity on transgender athlete policy

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- As the CIF State Track and Field Championships gully near, officials successful Clovis accidental questions stay unresolved implicit however transgender jock information volition beryllium handled this year.

Clovis Mayor Pro Tem Diane Pearce said uncertainty surrounding title policies has near athletes and families frustrated, peculiarly with the expected instrumentality of A.B. Hernandez, a transgender jock who was astatine the halfway of statement past year.

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"They bash not cognize what the governing policies are for the championships to archer america what the outcomes volition be, if the apical 3 girls volition really get the places and medals that they earn, oregon mightiness they beryllium cheated retired of those spots by a boy," Pearce said.

Pearce told Action News that assemblage members are increasing progressively acrophobic astir the deficiency of wide guidance from the California Interscholastic Federation, oregon CIF, arsenic the lawsuit approaches.

She said the uncertainty whitethorn beryllium affecting however athletes hole for competition.

"They don't recognize wherefore they're not being listened to, wherefore they're not being heard. Why bash these questions beryllium again this year?" Pearce said.

The contented drew protests from aggregate sides during past year's championships, with immoderate arguing that transgender athletes should vie based connected their sex identity.

In effect astatine the time, CIF introduced a one-time aviator program.

Under that system, biologic pistillate athletes would person the placements and medals they earned, and immoderate placements achieved by a biologic antheral would beryllium awarded successful summation to, alternatively than replacing, the girls' standings.

With this year's championships conscionable weeks away, Pearce said determination has been nary denotation that the aviator programme volition return.

"We should beryllium capable to observe that and observe them instead, they're wondering whether oregon not they're going to get a just changeable astatine those places and medals they've worked truthful hard for," she said.

Pearce said she has again contacted the White House astir the contented and is besides urging members of the assemblage to property CIF for answers.

When asked what a semipermanent solution would look like, Pearce said her presumption is firm.

"Ultimately, this volition lone beryllium resolved if boys are retired of our girls' divisions. We privation to reconstruct the integrity of the girls' divisions for our sports," she said.

Action News has reached retired to CIF for remark but has not yet received a response.

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