WATCH: Officials speak out on trans teen athlete competing in Clovis championship

CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A telephone to "protect girls' sports" volition spot a radical of Clovis-area leaders speaking retired against transgender girls participating successful sports with cisgender girls.

The property league connected Thursday day was scheduled aft it was announced that a 16-year-old from Jurupa Valley was acceptable to vie astatine the 105th California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) State Track and Field Championship astatine Buchanan High School successful Clovis.

After this past weekend's qualifying meets, CIF made a change that from present on, if a transgender jock wins, the adjacent highest scoring cisgendered miss would besides get an advance.

In effect to the teenager's participation, President Donald Trump posted connected societal media that helium would propulsion large-scale national backing if California did not adhere to his enforcement bid that was signed successful February. The enforcement order, Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports, states that acquisition institutions and diversion associations person allowed men to vie successful women's sports. Instead, the bid reinforces the United States' argumentation "to reason antheral competitory information successful women’s sports."

This is demeaning, unfair, and unsafe to women and girls, and denies women and girls the adjacent accidental to enactment and excel successful competitory sports.

The property league is acceptable to commencement astatine 2 p.m. and tin beryllium viewed successful the video subordinate above.