Small group protests transgender athlete at Clovis track meet

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fans and household made their mode into Veterans Memorial Stadium Friday day for the California Interscholastic Federation State Track and Field Championships.

Dozens of cops were stationed by entryways and patrolled parking tons successful anticipation of immoderate protests.

AB Hernandez, a transgender jock from Southern California who won titles successful the triple and agelong leap astatine the CIF Southern Section, is competing this weekend.

Hernandez's information has drawn disapproval from crossed the state, country, and adjacent from the achromatic house.

Even led to a alteration successful rules to let much cisgender athletes to enactment successful the championships.

Groups protested astatine erstwhile events she's competed in.

With the nationalist attention, CIF brought successful other officers.

Clovis section and LGBTQ advocator Stetler Brown says immoderate protests are a distraction from the event.

We were told AB's household specifically requested that anyone showing up successful enactment of her not deterioration immoderate Pride cogwheel and to conscionable cheer from the stands.

"We request to enactment each athletes, and this genuinely taking distant from the constituent of the weekend, which is to observe diversion achievement," said Brown.

"I anticipation that the family's wishes are respected, and if immoderate radical take to travel out, they are present for the athletes."

The designated "Free Speech Zone" connected the crushed stood empty.

This is the 3rd lawsuit Hernandez has participated successful that she's protested.

She says she has issues with however the CIF has handled this.

"And they changed the 1 clip wherever they said they'd fto the girls travel again, and present 2 first-place medals, truthful it's astir similar a atrocious crippled of chicken," said Mary Davis, a protester.

"If this is going to proceed and this colonisation is going to increase, past see a 3rd class oregon co-ed class oregon thing similar that."

Further outside, a tiny radical gathered astatine an intersection, receiving immoderate enactment from drivers.

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