A transgender athlete gained first place within the excessive soar at a California highschool track-and-field championship late Saturday and shared the rostrum with two organic females because of a newly handed California coverage.
AB Hernandez, a transgender highschool pupil athlete, positioned first within the women’ excessive soar, ending the occasion with no failed makes an attempt and setting the excessive mark of 5 ft, 7 inches.
Two organic females, Jillene Wetteland and Lelanie Laruelle, additionally cleared that top soar mark and shared the first-place podium with Hernandez regardless of every having a failed try due to a coverage established earlier this week.
Hernandez additionally positioned second within the lengthy soar.
The California Interscholastic Federation modified its guidelines on Tuesday to mandate that any organic females who misplaced to a trans-athlete wouldn’t lose their place — which means no feminine winners could be displaced by Hernandez’ efficiency.
The brand new rule additionally allowed an additional organic feminine student-athlete to compete in every class by which Hernandez was set to carry out.
The change got here within the wake of criticism over the federation’s dealing with of Hernandez’ success, together with from President Donald Trump who threatened to withhold funding from the Golden State.
“California, under the leadership of Radical Left Democrat Gavin Newscum, continues to ILLEGALLY allow ‘MEN TO PLAY IN WOMEN’S SPORTS,’” Trump wrote on Reality Social, Tuesday.
“THIS IS NOT FAIR, AND TOTALLY DEMEANING TO WOMEN AND GIRLS. Please be hereby advised that large scale Federal Funding will be held back, maybe permanently, if the Executive Order on this subject matter is not totally adhered to,” the president concluded.
That govt order threatened to strip federal funding from states that don’t bar transgender athletes from competing in girls’s sports activities.
Throughout the competitors, a aircraft circled over the stadium for an hour, pulling behind it a banner that learn “No Boys in Girls’ Sports!,” which was sponsored by activist teams the Unbiased Council on Girls’s Sports activities and Girls Are Actual.
Some people within the crowd of the competitors wore pink bracelets that learn “Save Girls’ Sports” in protest of Hernandez.
