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Gov. Gavin Newsom is drafting dense disapproval aft hosting a arguable and blimpish activistic connected his caller podcast and saying information of transgender athletes successful women's sports is "deeply unfair."
President Donald Trump is threatening to clasp up national backing for California implicit a transgender jock successful women's sports.
Trump said he's taking the measurement due to the fact that California, nether Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, "continues to ILLEGALLY let 'MEN TO PLAY IN WOMEN'S SPORTS.'"
In a station connected his societal media site, the Republican president cited the lawsuit of California precocious schoolhouse inferior AB Hernandez, who competes successful girls' way and field. Hernandez won titles successful the triple and agelong leap this period during the CIF Southern Section precocious schoolhouse way and tract postseason.
Trump said Hernandez's information "IS NOT FAIR, AND TOTALLY DEMEANING TO WOMEN AND GIRLS."
He said "large scale" national backing to California volition beryllium held up, perchance permanently, if the authorities doesn't comply with an enforcement bid helium signed successful February to barroom specified athletes from pistillate sports.
Trump noted Newsom's ain connection earlier this twelvemonth that allowing transgender women and girls to vie successful pistillate sports is "deeply unfair." Trump said helium would talk with Newsom aboriginal Tuesday to "find retired which mode helium wants to go."
California law, enacted earlier Newsom became governor, requires schools to let transgender athletes to play connected schoolhouse sports teams accordant with their sex identity.
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