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The California’s state championship obtains a last -minute adjustment in its eligibility rules after President Donald Trump called a controversy of the transgender athletes that shakes the Golden State.
The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) provided a statement to PK Press Club Digital on Tuesday, just hours after Trump sent a social post threatening to retain federal state funding, announcing the change. The competition will now include biologically female athletes who have missed the qualifications for the competition which could have placed itself higher without the participation of a trans athlete.
The Federation says it came to the decision at the end of the end of the weekend last weekend, days before Trump’s declaration. The declaration also refers to female competitors as “a student-organic student”.
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The athletes of athletics of the girls of California protest against the inclusion trans into the sports of girls during an post-season meeting at Yorba Linda high school on Saturday May 10, 2025 (Thanks to Sophia Lorey)
“The CIF values all our students-athletes and we will continue to maintain our mission to provide students with the possibility of belonging, connecting and competing while conforming to California Law and Education Code. In this spirit, the CIF will implement a process of pilot input for the athletics and state field championships 2025”, indicates the declaration.
“As part of this pilot entry process, any organic student-athlete who would have won the next qualification brand for one of the automatic qualification entries in their section in the meeting of the CIF state, and did not obtain the CIF state brand to the final of the final of the final. Students.”
The CIF is already under a federal investigation into the title IX by the United States Ministry of Education.
This change will lead to at least two competitors qualifying to compete for the title of State after falling from the typical qualification threshold on Saturday. A trans-identified athlete in competition as a girl for Jurupa Valley High School took first place in the triple jump and the long jump on Saturday.
Trump did not identify the name of the school or athlete involved in the situation in his social post.
The unified school district of Jurupa made a statement to PK Press Club Digital on the recent position of the President.
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Spectators wear girls for the protection of girls during the CIF Southern Division 3 Athletics Division 3 section at Nathan Spell Memorial Stadium in Yorba Linda High School on May 10, 2025 in Yorba Linda, California. (Images Kirby Lee / Getty)
“Jusd is required to follow both the Californian law policy and the CIF policy concerning academic athletics. The law of the state and the CIF policy currently requires that students be authorized to participate in sports teams and in competitions in accordance with their gender identity, regardless of the law on sex and the students granted to them.
The office of the governor of California Gavin Newsom, who previously admitted that he thought that biological men competing with the sports of girls were “deeply unfair”, welcomed the revised CIF policy in a declaration to PK Press Club Digital.
“The pilot proposed by CIF is a reasonable and respectful means of navigating in a complex problem without compromising competitive equity – a model to continue. The governor is encouraged by this thoughtful approach,” the statement said.
After Trump signed the executive decree “No Men’s in Women’s Sports” on February 5, the CIF was one of the country’s first sports leagues in the country to announce that it would not follow, and rather comply with the law of the State of California.
The CIF was examined two weeks ago when PK Press Club Digital reported that CIF officials would have caused girls to remove their “Protect Girls Sports” t-shirts during a section qualification. The Federation recognized the PK Press Club Digital incident.
“According to the Bulletin of the South CIF South section series, all athletes must be dressed in appropriate uniforms, issued to school.
The United States Ministry of Education then sent a warning to the State on the situation via an exclusive declaration to PK Press Club Digital on May 15 before the Trans athlete by Jurupa Valley in competition in the section final.
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“Cif’s and Jurupa Valley High School Bafouting of Federal Civil Rights Law by allowing a male athlete to participate in a female of athletics in California [Southern Sectional Division 3 Final] This Saturday, and the alleged reprisals against the girls protesting by this, is indefensible, “Julie Hartman, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Education, told PK Press Club.
“We will not allow institutions to trample the civil rights of women. The OCR survey on CIF continues vigor.”
After losing against the TRANS athlete in length in the section of the section, Katie McGuness of Canada High School urged the CIF to quickly change its policy in an interview on PK Press Club’ “America’s reports.”
“I have nothing against this athlete as a person and I have nothing against the trans community,” said McGueness. “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.”
Trans athletes have been authorized to compete as women and girls since 2014, when a law called AB 1266 entered into force, after having died in 2013.
The law has enabled several controversial incidents involving trans athletes in female and female sports in the state in the past year.
These include the female volleyball scandal of the state of San Jose which caused a lawsuit against the school and the State for the restoration of male biological Blaire Fleming without informing the rest of the players, and a trial against the unified school district of riverside for having given a place for the girls of Cross-Country for a trans athlete to wear t-shirts for girls.
The athletes of the girls of California High School Wear ‘Protect Girls Sports’ Shirts during a first after-season track in Yorba Linda High School on Saturday May 10, 2025. (Thanks to Reese Hogan)
Meanwhile, Trump and his administration attracted most of their attention involving the fight against the trans-athlete wave in Maine. A trial of the Ministry of Justice against Governor Janet Mills, breaks of multiple temporary financing and a case of the Supreme Court involving the legislator of the state Laurel Libby being censored for having called a trans minor athlete who won a firing jump competition in February, rocked the state of New England for months.
But now Trump has turned his eye to California, and the CIF is already working on adaptation to the reaction to the middle of its current controversy in the spring track championship.
