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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - 16-year-old transgender jock AB Hernandez is going location with hardware aft Saturday’s track and tract authorities finals.
Hernandez competed successful the agelong jump, precocious leap and triple leap events, earning a second-place medal and 2 first-place medals.
However, for each of those medals, different miss got the nonstop aforesaid one.
The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) precocious announced that if a transgender jock advances successful a competition, the adjacent highest-scoring cisgender miss volition get the aforesaid opportunity.
Despite that decision, galore fans inactive did not enactment Hernandez’s participation, with galore successful the assemblage booing.
At 1 point, a manager stopped the lawsuit to code the crowd, telling them to beryllium respectful. He threatened to halt the lawsuit again if they continued to heckle.
Hernandez received a akin reception connected the extracurricular of the obstruction arsenic well.
“We’ve got a instrumentality that's been connected the books successful California for 12 years present that allows biologic men to beryllium successful girls' locker rooms. That is conscionable outrageous,” Republican campaigner for politician Steve Hilton said.
Hilton drove to Clovis Saturday greeting to protest.
He was joined by Clovis Mayor Pro Tem Diane Pearce, saying it is unfair for idiosyncratic assigned antheral astatine commencement to vie successful a girls’ sport.
“Even Gavin Newsom says that this is each profoundly unfair, but he's not doing thing astir it. So I wanted to travel present contiguous to accidental that erstwhile I'm the politician of California, I volition act. I volition bash thing astir it,” Hilton said.
Hernandez walked distant with much archetypal and second-place medals than immoderate different miss successful the stadium, declining to talk with the media.
