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A public school district is transferring from the Nevada high school sports conference in California to avoid the new Nevada policy which prevents organic men from secondary and locker room competition.
The Tahoe Truckee Unified School District (Ttusd) in Truckee, California, leaves Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA) to join California Interscholastic Federation (CIF).
The change will come into force in the fall of 2025 and intervene after NIAA voted to ban the trans athletes from the girls category at its meeting of the April 2 control board. It was done in order to comply with the executive decree of President Donald Trump “men out of women’s sport”. However, California has continued to challenge order and allow trans inclusion in girls’ sports.
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Several athletes of Parents and Girls Ttuedé have begged school officials not to go to the California Federation at the Reunion of the Unified School Board in Truckee on Wednesday evening.
Not only did they expressed the concept of leaving trans athletes in girls sports, but many speakers also stressed that other details of the switch would affect the ability of the district sports teams to carry out their seasons, including travel and planning changes that would cause potential meteorological complications for external events.
The current configuration with Truckee in competition in the NIAA allows its teams to move east to Nevada for most of its competition outside, while the city is near the northern border of California-Nevada. But with the upcoming change, athlete students may soon have to travel to the west for most of their competition outside.
This means that students will often have to travel through the pass to give in California, a mountain pass 7,056 feet high. During the winter, the pass is known to be dangerous due to extreme weather conditions such as heavy snowfall, strong winds and frozen roads. The high rise and frequent storms contribute to treacherous travel conditions, in particular the avalanches potential.
A school bus to Truckee Historic Downtown during snowfall in Truckee, California, December 13, 2024. (Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu via Getty Images)
Truc School’s athletics athlete High School, Ava Cochram, expressed his fears of playing against trans athletes.
“Men generally have more muscle mass, higher pulmonary capacity and greater bone density that gives them greater advantages, physically, in sport, and I think it is very unfair to look at all our hard work as women to do drainage,” said Cochram. “I have nothing against trans people, but I think it’s a violation of our private life.”
Football, football, track and basketball athlete from Truckee High School, Kenzie Zilstorf, deplored the idea of changing with trans athletes in the same locker room and having to increase the risk of traveling with change.
“It is even worse if a woman has to go to the locker room with a man and change with them. There are two sexes, a man and a woman,” said Zilstorf. “And I think it is unfair that we must take a dangerous will to risk our lives during the summit when there is snow, all because of a rule of confidentiality. It is bad.”
Anna Holly, the football player for girls at North Tahoe high school, said that she would no longer play girls’ football because of the change.
“It’s sad for me, because it’s the only time I can play football in my life, and I really appreciate it, but I choose basketball,” said Holly. “And biologically, boys are born with more speed and strength than girls, and having to play against them, they have an unfair advantage, and I would not feel safe with them. There are also security problems as for their strength as we.”
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Ttusd has always defended his decision to go to CIF in a statement provided to PK Press Club Digital.
“A recent change in policy of the Association of Interscholastic Activities in Nevada (NIAA) carried out on April 2, 2025, comes into conflict directly with California’s law law, in particular the mandate of California Education Code against discrimination and protection of students’ privacy. Given the direct conflict between the recent political changes of NIAA and the mandates of the law of California, California Athletics TTUs as a necessary action to ensure legal compliance, “saw a TTUS declaration from California Athletics as active for legal compliance”.
Ttusd also said that he was planning that new arrangements would lead to shorter journeys for his athlete students for outside competitions, despite the concerns about the Donn.
“Ttusd works with CIF on the details related to the assignment of the league, times and travel distances. We plan that students of global mileage in the CIF will be lower than our current travel hours,” said the District Declaration.
Tahoe Truckee High School in Truckee, California, July 4, 2024. (Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images)
The CIF is one of the many secondary school sports conferences located in the Blue States to challenge Trump’s decree because it was signed on February 5.
He is currently the subject of an investigation by the American Department of Education for his challenge of order, and the Secretary of Education Linda McMahon warned Governor Gavin Newsom that his state could be submitted to the freezing of federal funding if he continues to challenge.
