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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) — President Donald Trump signed an enforcement bid to prohibition transgender women and girls from competing successful pistillate sports -while immoderate radical successful favour of the prohibition said this volition support women athletes, opponents are not convinced.
Dozens of women and girls stood down President Trump signing the "No Men successful Women's Sports Executive Order."
"Young girls and women and big women, yeah, you are present harmless to vie and bash the precise champion that you tin against different women," Fresno County Supervisor Garry Bredefeld said.
The Trump Administration said this bid aims to support women athletes to person harmless and just diversion opportunities.
But radical similar Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies Associate Professor astatine Fresno State, Dr. Katherine Fobear judge this won't assistance women.
"This is simply a precise overmuch a bogus assertion of extortion arsenic good arsenic a non-issue that has go an contented for, I think, precise governmental purposes," Fobear said.
Another Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies Fresno State Professor Kathryn Forbes believes this could bash much harm than good.
"What different kinds of things are you disallowing successful presumption of sex look wrong K done 12 and successful college, and what kinds of ineligible protections are you going to contradict them astatine that point?" Forbes said.
The contented of transgender women successful women's sports was a ample taxable starring up to the November elections.
After winning the election, Trump pledged to "Keep men retired of women's sports."
Bredefeld said the prohibition is agelong overdue.
"This onslaught by the anterior medication connected women and women's sports is unprecedented and rather frankly, the biggest disgrace I've seen successful a agelong time," Bredefeld said.
The CIF responding to the bid successful a connection speechmaking successful part:
The CIF provides students with the accidental to belong, connect, and vie successful education-based experiences successful compliance with California instrumentality [Education Code conception 221.5. (f)] which permits students to enactment successful schoolhouse programs and activities, including diversion teams and competitions, accordant with the student’s sex identity, irrespective of the sex listed connected the student’s records.
CIF."That dangerous, destructive ideology that infected women's sports is over," Bredefeld said.
