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EXCLUSIVE: The California High School’s state championship of California High School promises to be one of the most unprecedented high school sporting events.
In the midst of a national controversy involving a trans athlete that participates in the girls’ category, California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) announced a series of rules in the days preceding the event to host female competitors.
But now, several families of girls who have already been moved by a trans athlete during the previous competitions have spoken against the federation, expressing dissatisfaction with regard to changes.
On Tuesday, the CIF announced that it would expand the size of the pool of championship competitions and invite the “women’s biological” athletes who failed to meet the title by one place due to a trans athlete finishing in front of them during the qualification round last week.
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Ab Hernandez de Jurupa Valley participates in the height jumping of girls during the athletics preliminaries of division 3 of the Southern Southern Section 3 at Nathan Spell Memorial Stadium in Yorba Linda High School on May 10, 2025 in Yorba Linda, California. (Images Kirby Lee / Getty)
On Wednesday, the Federation announced that it would also recognize female athletes on the podium of the medal if a girl who is missing a medal does because they came behind a trans athlete.
Crean Lutheran star, the star of athletics, Reese Hogan finished second for the TRANS athlete and Hernandez de Jurupa Valley High School in the Triple jump to the final section on May 17. Then, on the podium of the medal, after leaving Hernandez, Hogan rose to first place for a photo session for an overview of the applause. The blow became viral while Hogan was congratulated by militants of the rights of women’s sport as a heroine.
But the latest CIF rules will not give Hogan the first medal for this event.
The Hogan family provided a declaration of them to PK Press Club Digital who said: “Recent CIF rules changes clearly a misstep from them. However, what they have proposed are not what we really need for all the girls of all sports. I placed second to CIF, and I know that if I had not contributed to a boy, I would have claimed the first point of the podium.”
“Unfortunately, we cannot review this moment to rectify this injustice. This problem transcends a single encounter, a sport or an individual; it is fundamentally the rights of all women to compete fairly between them. We deserve this opportunity, and we will continue to defend it.”
Hogan previously told PK Press Club Digital that she found the situation involving Hernandez “sad”.
“It’s just a little sad to look. He is obviously a really talented athlete, we have all seen him jump and everything, and I wish him the best chance, but in a boys’ division,” previously told PK Press Club Digital about the competition against the athlete. “It is quite obvious that certain advantages he has, and it is obviously just sad as a woman to look at that.”
Meanwhile, the family of Crean de Hogan’s Lutheran teammate, Olivia Viola, is not satisfied with the rule changes.
“Although we are grateful that some female athletes regain their ability to compete in states and women will win their legitimate titles during this weekend competition, unfortunately the CIFS test program does not solve anything.
“Unfortunately, at each stage of our heads of state comes to aware that California really has no intention to protect our daughters as necessary. The pilot program essentially admits that allowing biological men to compete in the female category has been an error. Now, it is time for a full course correction.
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Olivia Viola de Crean Lutheran participated in the height jumping of girls during the meeting of masters of the southern CIF section at Moorpark secondary school on May 24, 2025 in Moorpark, California. (Images Kirby Lee / Getty)
President Donald Trump weighed on the situation when he sent a social post on Tuesday morning, warning the State and Governor Gavin Newsom of potential financing and funding orders to prevent a Trans athlete from participating in the girls category on Saturday. The first change of rule occurred a few hours after Trump’s post.
The Ministry of Justice has announced that it would launch an investigation into the CIF prosecutor and California, Rob Bonta, on the law of the State which allows trans biologically male athletes to compete with girls and women on Wednesday. The second change of rule took place shortly after this announcement.
On Tuesday, the family of another girl’s track star who was moved by Hernandez in the athletic playoffs, Katie McGuinness of the Canada high school, told PK Press Club Digital that they are grateful for Trump’s intervention.
“We are grateful that President Trump fights for female athletes and gives them a fair blow to compete on a playground.
“Allowing biological men to compete in female sports is unfair, unfair and defies common sense,” added the family.
Spectators wear girls for the protection of girls during the CIF Southern Division 3 preliminary athletics section at Nathan Spell Memorial Stadium in Yorba Linda High School on May 10, 2025, in Yorba Linda, California. (Images Kirby Lee / Getty)
Katie previously pronounced against CIF for having allowed the situation to go so far in an interview on the “America Reports” of PK Press Club last week.
“I have nothing against this athlete as a person, and I have nothing against the trans community,” said McGuinness. “My message today is really specifically for CIF and for them to act quickly and in a timely manner, because it is a problem really sensitive to time.”
