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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – After local, statewide, and nationalist contention and criticism, transgender athlete, 16-year-old AB Hernandez, a inferior from Jurupa Valley High School, carried on, competing successful the California Interscholastic Federation State Track and Field Championships astatine Buchanan High School starting Friday afternoon.
Hernandez pushed done the sound and acceptable retired to vie successful agelong jump, precocious jump, and triple jump, an lawsuit successful which she is the 2nd seed.
It each happened with protestors connected the crushed extracurricular Buchanan's Veteran's Memorial Stadium.
"When I saw this injustice going connected and the egregious Title IX violations, I had to instrumentality a stand," Protestor Mary Davis, who drove from San Diego, said.
A level could beryllium seen flying overhead astatine the commencement of the meet, with a banner saying "NO BOYS IN GIRLS' SPORTS!" Even with that, Hernandez inactive proceeded with her events.
However, the roadworthy to get to this point, for Hernandez and each athletes participating, has been paved successful controversy.
Thursday, Central Valley lawmakers from some the authorities and section levels held a property league to telephone for the authorities to enactment a halt to Hernandez and different transgender athletes from participating successful cisgender sports.
Even President Donald Trump threatened to propulsion backing from the State of California this week unless it took action.
LGBTQ+ advocates came retired to the conscionable to some amusement enactment for Hernandez, different transgender athletes and to talk retired against politicians opposing their participation.
"I got told contiguous by idiosyncratic adjacent to maine that says it's important to witnesser what's happening arsenic an LGBTQ person," said Stetler Brown, a Clovis nonmigratory and LGBTQ+ advocate. "You know, erstwhile radical are speaking against, you know, your community, to conscionable carnivore witnesser to that. And I deliberation that's benignant of wherefore I decided to rise my voice."
Meanwhile, a manager from the Bay Area said helium understands the issue, and said biologic boys volition ever person immoderate vantage implicit biologic girls.
Still, helium believes the full happening has been blown retired of proportion. He says to hole it, there's an 'easy' solution.
"All they person to bash is marque different division. They've done it with the handicapped. It's good to marque different division," said Chris Pedrin, caput way manager astatine Woodside High School. "They're trying to marque a bigger happening than it is."
