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As you all here know, Donna and I are not in favor of trans athletes taking the places in competitions from cis women athletes. But I think that this is an excellent idea that should satisfy pretty much everyone.
The whole brouhaha was about trans women athletes taking medals out of cis female athletes' hands. This way keeps that from happening while allowing the trans athletes to compete and still be recognized.
Does anyone have a problem with this? And if so, what is it?
Transgender athlete wins, shares state honors, creating questions about inclusion
Unrattled by the controversy around her participation in girls' track and field events, AB Hernandez, an openly transgender student-athlete, achieved two first-place victories and a second-place win in the state championship on Saturday. She shared the podium and recognition with cisgender females as a result of new rules hurriedly adopted last week.
Sparked by threats from the federal government, just days ahead of this past weekend’s California Interscholastic Federation Track and Field State Championship, the CIF changed its rules regarding the number of girls who could qualify for and would win in events with a transgender athlete.
The state faced backlash over Hernandez’s participation, with President Donald Trump threatening to cut federal funding to California and demanding that the state bar her inclusion. In response, California officials tweaked the rules to expand the number of cisgender girls who could qualify if a trans athlete was participating. Under the changed rules, a cisgender girl displaced by a transgender competitor was awarded whichever medal she would have claimed had the transgender athlete not been competing.
Local leaders in the conservative-leaning Clovis, which hosted the championship, called it unfair to include a transgender female in sports with cisgender females, The Fresno Bee reported.
Hernandez, a junior at Jurupa Valley High in Southern California, was unflappable in the Veterans Memorial Stadium at Buchanan High School in Clovis, even when insulted or met with silence in the packed venue.
She has "consistently displayed more dignity, maturity, and grace than the many adults, from the president on down, who chose to attack and bully her to score political points," said Tony Hoang, executive director of Equality California, the state’s LGBTQ+ civil rights organization. "We could not be prouder of the way this brave student-athlete conducted herself on and off the track."
Hernandez qualified as the top competitor in the long jump and triple jump on Friday, outperforming others by 6.25 inches and 9.75 inches, respectively, and in the high jump, scoring the same as five other athletes.
During the championship round on Saturday, she was outperformed in the long jump and continued to tie with other athletes in the high jump.
Even though she is not ranked as a top athlete nationally, she held on to California’s top marks in the triple jump.
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