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President Trump connected Tuesday threatened to revoke national backing from California implicit a transgender precocious schoolhouse way and tract jock who qualified implicit the play for the authorities title meet, instructing section authorities to artifact the pupil from participating.
In a station connected Truth Social, Trump railed against 16-year-old AB Hernandez, a inferior astatine Jurupa Valley High School successful Southern California who won the girls agelong leap and triple leap astatine the California Interscholastic Federation’s Southern Section Masters conscionable May 24, qualifying for the authorities championships that will instrumentality spot May 30-31.
He said Hernandez won “everything” astatine the conscionable — she tied for 4th successful the precocious jump, besides qualifying for the authorities championships successful that lawsuit — and falsely claimed she had antecedently competed connected the boys team. Hernandez came retired arsenic transgender successful the eighth grade, her mother, Nereyda, said successful an April interview with Capital and Main, a nonprofit quality enactment successful California.
“THIS IS NOT FAIR, AND TOTALLY DEMEANING TO WOMEN AND GIRLS,” Trump wrote Tuesday. “Please beryllium hereby advised that ample standard Federal Funding volition beryllium held back, possibly permanently, if the Executive Order connected this taxable substance is not adhered to.”
The bid Trump signed successful February states that “it is the argumentation of the United States to reason antheral competitory information successful women’s sports” and threatens to “rescind each funds from acquisition programs that deprive women and girls of just diversion opportunities.”
At a signing ceremonial successful Washington, D.C., Trump said his medication volition not let transgender athletes to vie in the 2028 Summer Olympics successful Los Angeles.
Several Democratic-led states, most notably Maine, person bucked Trump’s order, which they accidental violates authorities laws against discrimination. The California Interscholastic Federation, which governs precocious schoolhouse sports successful the Golden State, said successful effect to Trump’s bid that it would proceed allowing transgender athletes to vie connected teams that lucifer their sex identity, accordant with a 2013 law.
The Department of Education announced it had opened a Title IX investigation into the enactment soon after.
On Tuesday, Trump said helium is “ordering section authorities, if necessary, to not allow” Hernandez to vie successful the authorities championships adjacent weekend. The White House did not respond to a question astir to which authorities authorities Trump referenced. The president does not person nonstop authorization implicit section instrumentality enforcement.
Trump added that he plans to talk Tuesday with California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who, successful the debut occurrence of his podcast, “This is Gavin Newsom,” successful March, said helium believes transgender athletes participating successful girls' and women’s sports is "deeply unfair."
At a property league successful Modesto, Calif., the pursuing month, Newsom said helium would beryllium “open” to a speech astir limiting trans athletes’ information if it were conducted “in a mode that’s respectful and liable and could find a benignant of balance.”
A spokesperson for Newsom declined to remark connected whether the governor, seen arsenic a apt contender for the 2028 Democratic statesmanlike nomination, would talk Tuesday with Trump.
Later connected Tuesday, the California Interscholastic Federation said it decided implicit the weekend to let “any biologic pistillate student-athlete” who would person qualified successful an lawsuit wherever a transgender miss took a qualifying spot to enactment successful adjacent weekend’s way and tract championships.
The Newsom spokesperson said the politician “is encouraged by this thoughtful approach.” The White House did not instantly instrumentality a petition for remark connected the caller policy.
Hernandez has for months been the people of protests against transgender girls playing girls sports. At a caller way conscionable successful Orange County, more than 2 twelve adults, including 3 section schoolhouse committee members, heckled Hernandez for hours, astatine 1 constituent raising their voices truthful large arsenic to origin a mendacious commencement successful different event, Capital and Main reported.
“I’m inactive a kid and you’re an adult, and for you to inactive enactment similar a kid shows however you are arsenic a person,” Hernandez told the outlet this month. “There’s thing I tin bash astir people’s actions, conscionable absorption connected my own.”
She said her teammates and astir competitors enactment her.
Hernandez's season-best triple leap of 41 feet, 9 inches is the longest among California precocious schoolhouse girls this twelvemonth and ties for ninth nationally. She besides has the state's second-longest agelong jump.
At a March gathering of the Jurupa Unified School District Board of Education, Superintendent Trenton Hansen acknowledged the hazard of the territory losing its funding.
“There is the menace from the national authorities to withhold funding, there’s threats from the authorities authorities to withhold backing if we interruption laws,” Hansen said. “Unfortunately, schoolhouse districts are placed successful the mediate of this tug of war. All the accusation we’ve received from ineligible counsel … is that we travel the laws present successful California, that enforcement orders bash not transportation the value of the unit of law, and that these issues volition request to beryllium figured retired successful the tribunal system.”
Updated astatine 4:16 p.m. EDT
