The California monitor and discipline state championship prelim spherical in Clovis on Friday was a scene of conflicting beliefs and even police intervention amid an ongoing controversy involving a trans athlete competing within the women’ class.
At the very least one individual was arrested, the Clovis Police Division confirmed to Fox Information Digital.
The individual arrested was a protester who’s accused of shattering a automotive window with a flag pole.
The division confirmed the individual arrested was an LGBTQ activist.
“This afternoon at 3:55PM, a disturbance between two adults occurred at the intersection of Nees/Minnewawa. One adult on the sidewalk and one in a vehicle at the intersection became involved in a disturbance that turned physical. During the disturbance, one of them used pepper spray against the other. EMS was called and one of the adults was arrested,” an announcement learn.
The individual has been arrested for assault with a weapon and obstructing a police, in line with Sergeant Chris Hutchison.
“We don’t have room for violence or property damage or anything like that,” Hutchison.
In the meantime, a aircraft flying a banner that learn “no boys in girls’ sports” handed over the California monitor and discipline championship Friday in Clovis.
Footage supplied to Fox Information Digital by California activist Beth Bourne confirmed the plan flying overhead at Buchanan Excessive Faculty’s Veterans Memorial Stadium.
The stunt was organized by two ladies’s advocacy group, Girls are Actual and the Unbiased Council for Girls’s Sports activities.
“California is beginning to reap the consequences of defying federal law and brazenly harming girls,” stated Kim Jones, co-founder of ICONS in a press launch saying the aerial banner.
“How long will Governor Newsom and legislators in this state continue to prioritize granting a few boys the right to take opportunities and recognition away from girls? Not one single boy should ever be in girls’ sports. It’s the easiest problem in the world to solve—and the most brazen public ‘screw you’ to female athletes by Democrat leadership. Since when do we tell a single boy he is more important than every girl in the competition? That he has the right to ruin sports for all of them? It’s time for California to pay and it’s time to right these wrongs.”
Witnesses on the occasion informed Fox Information Digital that pro-transgender protesters attended the occasion in assist of transgender athlete AB Hernandez.
The meet and the California Interscholastic Federation’s (CIF) total monitor and discipline postseason has been underneath a nationwide microscope in current weeks.
Trans athlete AB Hernandez of Jurupa Valley Excessive Faculty has dominated the women’ monitor and discipline postseason in 2025, prompting nationwide backlash and even the eye of President Donald Trump.
Trump despatched a Reality Social put up on Tuesday morning, warning the state and Gov. Gavin Newsom of potential funding cuts and orders to native authorities to forestall a trans athlete from competing within the women’ class.
Then the Division of Justice introduced it could launch an investigation into the CIF and California Lawyer Normal Rob Bonta over the state’s legislation that enables biologically male trans athletes to compete with women and girls on Wednesday.
The CIF introduced a pair of rule modifications on Tuesday and Wednesday in response to the backlash, increasing the dimensions of the competitor pool and even handing out medals to any “biological female” athlete displaced by a transgender athlete on the meet.
