Valley lawmaker offers proposal for transgender athletes ahead of track meet in Clovis

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Federal backing could beryllium connected the chopping artifact arsenic a transgender jock takes to the tract successful Clovis aboriginal this week.

With the authorities besides connected the brink of a national probe implicit transgender athletes, Republican Assemblyman David Tangipa is offering a way forward.

"If we created an unfastened part that everyone gets to vie here, but we inactive travel into compliance with Title IX, I deliberation that's an existent imaginable portion of the solution," said Tangipa.

Part of Tangipa's district, conscionable days distant from becoming the halfway of a nationalist debate.

State diversion organizers are allowing transgender jock AB Hernandez to enactment successful girls' way and tract astatine the authorities title successful Clovis.

President Trump has called it "not fair" and "demeaning."

His Department of Justice is weighing in,

"Federal instrumentality is that girls are to person their ain segregated sports successful schools that are specifically federally funded," said U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli.

Essayli is present threatening national action.

"We're going to get progressive connected pending litigation and cases, and we're going to initiate our ain investigations and perchance record our ain civilian rights cases wherever appropriate," said Essayli.

Amid increasing pressure, sports regulators person unveiled a podium-sharing agreement.

The California Interscholastic Federation volition grant aggregate medals successful the events wherever a transgender jock competes...

"That doesn't mean we are expected to alteration the rules and laws to acceptable idiosyncratic else's idiosyncratic ideology erstwhile we person to look astatine the expansive strategy of things. Girls are girls. Boys are boys," said Tangipa.
Just months ago,

Governor Newsom called it "deeply unfair" for transgender athletes to enactment successful girls' sports.

But connected Wednesday, his bureau branded the rules arsenic "reasonable" and "respectful."

Tangipa feels it's a moving extremity post.

"The athletes conscionable request consistency. They request rules. They request foundations earlier the play starts for them to execute astatine the champion level," Tangipa said.

And demonstrators are expected to protestation astatine the title this Friday.

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