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CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- A statewide title successful Clovis connected Friday turned into a nationalist statement implicit transgender athletes.
A tiny radical of protesters clashed arsenic AB Hernandez took the field
AB is simply a transgender miss who is allowed to enactment successful girls' events.
"We request to enactment each athletes, and this is genuinely taking distant from the constituent of the weekend, which is to observe diversion achievement," said Stetler Brown, an LGBTQ+ advocate.
Outside the stadium, tensions boiled over, with 19-year-old Ethan Kroll being arrested.
Police accidental Kroll utilized a emblem to battle different protester arsenic they drove away.
"That protester was carrying a emblem and utilized that emblem to onslaught the operator of the car. The idiosyncratic wrong the car past deployed capsicum spray successful self-defense," said Clovis Police Sgt. Chris Hutchinson.
It each comes conscionable days aft President Trump took to societal media, wherever helium criticized Governor Newsom and said it was "unfair," "demeaning" for men to play successful women's sports.
U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli has present threatened national action.
"We're going to get progressive connected pending litigation and cases, and we're going to initiate our ain investigations and perchance record our ain civilian rights cases wherever appropriate," said Essayli.
On the field, AB remained poised.
Qualifying successful 3 events and returning for the title connected Saturday.
Meet officials volition grant aggregate medals successful the events wherever AB competes.
But Friday night, the parents of chap athletes remained split.
"All the quality and attraction to this young athlete, I deliberation it's excessively much,' said Carina Quezada-Adan, a Bay Area resident.
"A compromise has been reached. Just fto the jock vie with the just compromise that was reached."
"All of a sudden, they're changing the rules to astatine slightest let those to travel in, but it defeats the intent of the crushed wherefore we've established pistillate sports," said Lavonda Hall from Southern California.
AB has kept quiet, but her parent released a connection Friday, writing:
"I spot my kid being attacked not for a wrongdoing, but simply for being who they are... My kid has competed fairly, successful afloat compliance with California instrumentality and diversion policy."
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