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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Government officials person utilized a 16-year-old transgender miss arsenic the halfway of an ongoing statement implicit whether oregon not transgender girls should enactment successful sports with cisgender girls.
"The information is that AB Hernandez, the miss who is astatine the halfway of each this, is simply a child. And we person these adults, politicians who are banking their full vocation connected harassing, doxxing and truly being obsessed with the bodies of children," said PJ Flores, a trans martial arts self-defense instructor.
The 16-year-old from Jurupa Valley is acceptable to vie astatine Buchanan High School successful Clovis, which is hosting the 105th California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) State Track and Field Championships.
"To me, this is simply a reasonably casual issue. There are things we tin bash to marque definite we are protecting women's spaces, opportunities, athleticism and making definite that the girls each person that accidental to predominate successful their retrospective, their respective sport," said authorities lawmaker David Tangipa.
After this past weekend's qualifying meets, CIF made a alteration that from present on, if a transgender jock wins, the adjacent highest scoring cisgendered miss would besides get to advance.
Flores believes CIF, which oversees precocious schoolhouse authorities athletics, should alternatively support and uplift students and their accomplishments alternatively than impact them successful politics.
"A amended effect would person been to telephone retired and shame these politicians who are trying to physique a vocation and marque their ain idiosyncratic gains disconnected of harassing children," she expressed.
In effect to the teenager's participation, President Donald Trump posted to his societal media level that helium would propulsion large-scale national backing if California did not adhere to his enforcement bid signed successful February, opposing antheral competitory information successful women’s sports.
"This benignant of enactment is really what a batch of people, I think, voted for. They wanted to get backmost to normal. They wanted to get backmost to making definite that we spot the rules successful spot and that they are followed. And helium is making definite that girls person the spaces and opportunities that they thought that they ever had had," said Tangipa.
"[AB Hernandez's] full community, adjacent though astir of that assemblage did ballot for Trump, really came retired successful enactment of this miss and her quality to enactment successful sports and beryllium celebrated among her squad for her achievements," Flores expressed. "I deliberation that's however the nationalist should beryllium responding— showing that we really attraction astir each different and the girls successful our assemblage and privation to support them and their happiness."
Tangipa volition articulation Senator Shannon Grove with Fresno County officials astatine Clovis Veterans' Memorial District Thursday day to "rally to prevention girls' sports." Officials volition talk retired against CIF's determination to let a transgender miss to enactment with different girls and interruption Trump's national order.
Following the caller governmental outcry implicit her daughter, Hernandez's parent Avery released a connection to goverment officials that work successful part:
"These individuals person chosen to nonstop their hatred and ignorance astatine a child, weaponizing misinformation and fearfulness alternatively of embracing truth, compassion and respect. The continued harassment is not conscionable cruel; it's dangerous."
"I privation radical to cheer aft AB hits the pit and/or erstwhile AB receives her medals due to the fact that it's usually me, truthful I privation her to cognize she has a people down her," AB's parent stated.
To find retired much astir the 105th CIF State Track and Field Championships this weekend, click here.
