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California State Assemblymember Kate Sanchez introduced on Monday that she is introducing a invoice to ban trans athletes from competing in women’ and ladies’s sports activities.
Sanchez will suggest the Protect Girls’ Sports Act to the state legislature. Currently, 25 states have comparable legal guidelines in impact. But California has had a state regulation in impact since 2014 that has enabled trans athletes to take part in ladies’s and women’ sports activities, and it even requires public establishments to guard trans athletes on the expense of organic feminine opponents.
“Young ladies who’ve spent years coaching and sacrificing to compete on the highest stage are actually pressured to compete in opposition to people with plain organic benefits. It’s not simply unfair – it’s disheartening and harmful,” Sanchez stated in a press release asserting the invoice.
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California’s regulation, AB 1266, which has been in impact since 2014, offers California college students at scholastic and collegiate ranges the suitable to “take part in sex-segregated college packages and actions, together with athletic groups and competitions, and use amenities constant along with his or her gender identification, no matter the gender listed on the pupil’s information.”
California’s Code of Regulations part 4910(ok) defines gender as: “An individual’s precise intercourse or perceived intercourse and consists of an individual’s perceived identification, look or conduct, whether or not or not that identification, look, or conduct is totally different from that historically related to an individual’s intercourse at beginning.”
California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Bylaw 300.D. mirrors the Education Code, stating, “All college students ought to have the chance to take part in CIF actions in a fashion that’s in keeping with their gender identification, no matter the gender listed on a pupil’s information.”
These present legal guidelines within the Golden Start have resulted in a number of scandals and nationwide controversies involving trans athletes in ladies’s sports activities in 2024 alone.
Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, is at the moment embroiled in some of the contentious native controversies on the problem.
A latest college board assembly by the Riverside Unified School District on Dec. 19 featured a parade of oldsters berating the board for permitting a trans athlete on the Martin Luther King women’ cross-country workforce. A lawsuit filed by two women on the workforce alleges that their T-shirts in protest of that participant have been in comparison with swastikas just because they are saying “Save Girls Sports.”
The father of a woman who misplaced her varsity spot to the trans athlete lately instructed Fox News Digital that his daughter and different women on the college have been instructed “transgenders have extra rights than cisgender[s]” by college directors after they protested the athlete’s participation.
Stone Ridge Christian High School’s women’ volleyball workforce was scheduled to face San Francisco Waldorf within the Northern California Division 6 event however forfeited in an announcement simply earlier than the match over the presence of a trans athlete on the workforce.
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A transgender volleyball participant was booed and harassed at an Oct. 12 match between Notre Dame Belmont in Belmont, California, in opposition to Half Moon Bay High School, in response to ABC 7. Half Moon Bay rostered the transgender athlete.
At the school stage, San Jose State college’s volleyball workforce was hampered by, arguably, the most important scandal involving transgenderism in ladies’s sports activities in latest historical past in 2024.
SJSU co-captain Brooke Slusser is engaged in a number of lawsuits in opposition to the college, the Mountain West convention and the NCAA, alleging the college had her share a workforce, altering areas and even bedrooms with teammate Blaire Fleming with out ever informing her or different gamers that Fleming was a organic male.
The workforce was the goal of nationwide consideration this previous season amid the controversy, as President-elect Trump even known as out Fleming for a way arduous the trans athlete spiked the ball at an opposing participant throughout a Fox News city corridor occasion in October.
The workforce noticed eight matches forfeited amid the scandal, together with the semifinal spherical of the Mountain West Tournament after Boise State refused to face the Spartans for the third time. Slusser, Fleming and the remainder of the workforce all ended up taking part in within the championship sport, the place they misplaced to Colorado State to finish their season and the 2 gamers’ respective faculty careers.
Slusser has instructed Fox News Digital that your complete expertise involving Fleming was “traumatizing.”
“This season has been so traumatizing that I do not actually have a proudest second,” Slusser stated.
Most of the workforce’s remaining gamers have entered the switch portal within the aftermath of the controversy.
Trump has pledged to instill a full-on ban on trans athletes in ladies’s sports activities to the close to unanimous help of Republican allies.
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The new Republican-controlled Congress will hear arguments on a invoice that will prohibit transgender athletes from competing in ladies’s sports activities in its first 100 days after voting sure on a brand new guidelines bundle Friday.
Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., celebrated Friday’s vote and can reintroduce the invoice included within the guidelines bundle, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., instructed Fox News Digital he’s additionally reintroducing that measure within the Senate, and with the approval of management, it is anticipated to get a flooring vote.
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