Taylor Starling always remembers the day his life has changed.
On October 22, she was abandoned from the Cross-Country University team to the Junior University Team of Martin Luther King secondary school in Riverside, California.
Its place was taken by a trans athlete.
“I felt angry when I was withdrawn from my university team because I knew that the requirements had been modified for him because he is transgender. I felt like my sacrifice, my hard work and his dedication did not matter for my school administrators because I am a girl. It was easy for them to put me apart and it was wrong,” said Starling to PK Press Club.
“Regarding management, my family and friends were very favorable. I also know that everything happens for a reason and that God has a plan for me. I always try to find good when things are difficult and continue.”
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The Girls athlete by California High School Taylor Starling. (Supplied to PK Press Club Digital)
Now, barely five months and two weeks later, at 16, she has much more on her plate than practice and homework.
She spoke to the California Capitol Building in Sacramento to support two draft state law to prohibit the trans Sports athletes for girls, braving pro-Trans-Trans-Trans-Trans demonstrators.
His trial against his school district and his California general prosecutor, Rob Bonta, at his first date of May 15. It is the centerpiece of a movement of several months in its school and its community in which the students present themselves every Wednesday bearing “Save Girls Sports” t-shirts, overwhelming administrative efforts to prevent it.
However, this was not victories for her and her family.
His testimony could not convince the Democratic majority to support the two bills to prohibit trans athletes. His mother, a local public teacher, faces the uncertainty of her school and other people through California who potentially lose federal funding while the state refuses to comply with the executive decree of President Donald Trump to prevent the men from the sports of girls.
In March, Starling had to watch his sister, Abby Starling, losing a 200m race against the same trans athlete who took his university place in the fall.
In addition, the attention she has received for her activism in recent months has come with more difficult moments.
“Social media is quite bad,” his father, Ryan Starling, told PK Press Club Digital. “You have 99 positive comments, then you get this comment which called it Bigot, called it the word” C “, called it all kinds of names.”
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His family was prepared for the backlash when they registered in combat, as they were warned by their lawyer, Robert Tyler.
“When we took care of this affair, we had a real heart to heart,” Tyler told PK Press Club Digital. “I asked Taylor and Kaitlyn ‘are you ready to face this? Will you be able to walk in the corridors of his school and hate yourself, call you names and call you? And they were.”
The family entered the Culture War of Trans athletes in November, when they filed a complaint against the unified school district of Riverside alongside their friend and teammate Kaitlyn Slavin. They then extended the trial to include Bonta in February, to protest against current laws in California which allow the inclusion trans.
This is a trial that Tyler and the families involved Hope create a new precedent for gender eligibility in the state once it is tried on May 15, while the state legislature and Governor Gavin Newsom refuse to make changes, risking reductions in federal funding to the State.
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 programs and school activities separated by sex, including teams and sports competitions, and to use installations consistent with its gender identity, regardless of the genre listed on the pupil files.”
This law and the dedication of the State to execute it have already caused a decline in the Trump administration. The Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, sent an official warning at the end of March to Newsom and to the rest of the state, which suggests that federal funding could be reduced to the State if he continues to allow trans inclusion in girls’ sports.
Starlings and other California families assist in real time a potential model for what could soon happen to them across the country in Maine. This state has taken the scene as “zero terrestrial” in the conflict of Trans athletes, because its reluctance to comply with Trump has already led to a freeze on the financing of the USDA last week, and more potential sanctions this week.
“Well,” said Ryan Starling in response to see the situation in Maine, knowing that the same thing could soon be played in his state. “This is the only thing they answer, it is when their funding is cut and when it really affects their wallets, it is the only thing that will change it.
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Students from Martin Luther King secondary school in Riverside, California, wear t-shirts that read “Save Girls’ Sports” to protest a trans athlete in the Cross-Country team. (Thanks to Sophia Lorey)
“Unfortunately, it could have a little difficult route to certain teachers, but our teachers are resilient.”
Taylor Starling did his part to help avoid this when she pressure on Sacramento last week, delivering her story to Bills AB 89 and AB 844. The two bills would have prohibited trans athletes from the sports of girls through the state and would have put California in accordance with Trump’s decree.
Instead, bills have not succeeded and the member of the Democrat Rick Zbur compared them to the practices of Nazi Germany. For Taylor Starling, it was a comparison, she was able to compensate more than the others in the room because, according to her trial, the administrators of the school of Martin Luther King High compared his “Save Girls Sports” t-shirts to the Swastikas Cross in November.
“I have already been called this by the sports director, so now I am a little used. But it was a shock for everyone, because he also called all the Nazis of others. So I think it caused a great reaction from everyone and they were more willing to express himself against this,” she said.
“It was very sad to see the Democratic leadership in California could not defend us the girls and the rights we deserve.”
Thus, Taylor and his father had to leave Sacramento and return home to Riverside without any progress in a significant legislative change.
Now they look at their first audience date.
Ryan and Taylor Starling from Riverside, California. (Supplied to PK Press Club Digital)
Tyler said that in this case, they seek to ensure that the court examines the current Californian law which allows the inclusion trans into the sports of girls and would potentially rule that the law constitutes a violation of the title IX.
“We want to contest this and argue that it is simply a violation of the title IX, that it is illegal, and we hope that the court will examine this and throw it,” said Tyler. “We want this case to represent the proposal that it is time to take over our schools, it is time to bring back the sports of our daughters, it is time to bring common sense.”
The Starling family, the Slavin family and Tyler will try to take a step towards a historic decision on the issue on May 15.
