The refusal of California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) to comply with the executive decree of President Donald Trump prohibiting trans athletes from the sports of girls and women caused indignation within the state.
Residents gathered in Long Beach, California on Friday to protest outside a meeting of the CIF board of directors.
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The demonstrators then spoke during the meeting of the board of directors, pleading with CIF officials to follow the order of the president.
The demonstrators even threatened civil proceedings against the CIF and the state in case they continue to refuse respect for Trump. Currently, there is a lawsuit against the CIF and the State Attorney General, Rob Bonta, on a situation at Martin Luther King secondary school involving a trans athlete within the cross-country team for girls.
“There will be more proceedings to follow if the CIF does not respect the federal law,” said Julianne Fleischer, legal advisor at Advocates for Faith & Freedom, during the event. “I want CIF to know that it is important to follow the federal law or that you will be held responsible not to enforce federal law in school districts … with more prosecution that they will spend important funds in dispute.”
Trump’s decree stipulates that any school receiving federal funding which allows biological men to participate in the category of girls or women will lose this federal funding. According to USA Facts, California public schools receive approximately $ 16.8 billion per year, ie 13.9% or one in seven dollars in public schools, which is well above the national average.
Many demonstrators there have made the state of the consequences of the loss of this federal funding warned.
An employee of the California school district presented himself to the demonstration to plead with the CIF to follow the order of Trump. Sonja Shaw, president of the Unified School Board of Chino Valley, spoke of her point of view as a mother and has become visibly emotional when she rolled up the CIF for her decision, the appellant “shameful”.
“Anyone who is in CIF at the highest level by emitting these strange tools awakened to tell the boys to know how to compete with the girls, if you are part of this, you are disgusting, and you have to get out of here”, Shaw said.
In California, a law called AB 1266 has been in force since 2014, giving Californian students at the scholastic and college levels to “participate in segregated sex programs and activities, including teams and sports competitions, and to use facilities in accordance with its gender identity, regardless of The gender listed on student recordings. “
The Californian regulatory code article 4910 (k) defines sex as “the real sex of a person or the perceived sex includes the identity, appearance or the perceived behavior of a person, that this identity, his appearance or behavior are traditionally associated with a person of a sex person at birth. “”
Filé CIF 300.D. Reflects the Education Code, declaring: “All students should have the opportunity to participate in CIF activities in accordance with their gender identity, regardless of the genus listed on a student’s files.”
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These laws and the subsequent authorization of athletes Trans to compete with girls and women of the State led to multiple controversies on the issue in the last year only.
In Martin Luther King secondary school, the father of a daughter who has lost his university place against the cross-country Trans cross-country athlete told PK Press Club Digital that his daughter and other girls of the school had been informed that “the transgender had more rights than Cisgender[s]”By school administrators when they protested the athlete’s participation.
This father, the longtime firefighter Ryan Starling, presented himself at the meeting of demonstrations and the board of directors on Friday and shared the story of his daughter.
“We ask you today to be daring and to be courageous and to defend our daughters,” said Starling.
Starling also suggested that the CIF has set up a category specifically for trans athletes, to avoid exclusion.
“How about doing an open category? Start protecting our girls immediately so that everyone can always compete, but everyone has their place,” said Starling.
Starling’s family is a applicant in the current trial against CIF and Bonta. The pursuit questions AB 1266, which allows transgender athletes to compete with girls and women, saying that it is a violation of title IX.
“The complainants are looking for a federal decision that AB 1266 violates title IX as well as a decision which held the district responsible for violating their rights to the first amendment. They ask for an injunctive repair to prevent schools from forcing biological girls to compete with and against men, a judgment affirming sexual relations -the protections based on athletics and remuneration for damage caused by these discriminatory policies “, declared a spokesperson for defenders of faith and freedom.
The question of trans trans -rivals with girls and women has caused other controversies within the state in recent months.
The Stone Ridge Christian High School’s women’s volleyball team was to face San Francisco Waldorf in the Northern California Division 6 tournament, but was lost in an ad just before the match on the presence of a trans athlete breast of the team.
A transgender volleyball player was hué and harassed in a match of October 12 between Notre Dame Belmont in Belmont, California, and Half Moon Bay High School, according to ABC 7. Half Moon Bay failed the Transgender athlete.
Kate Sanchez, member of the California State Assembly, announced on January 7 that she presented a bill to Prohibit trans athletes Competition in the sports of girls and women. Sanchez will offer the Protect Girls’ Sports Act to the state legislature. Currently, 25 states have in force similar laws.
