California college board erupts over volleyball forfeit with trans participant

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A faculty board assembly in California descended into explosive debate after a ladies' volleyball team forfeited to an opponent with a transgender participant.

The gamers on the Riverside Poly Excessive Faculty ladies' volleyball staff selected to forfeit final Friday's recreation towards Jurupa Valley Excessive Faculty. A number of mother and father beforehand told Fox News Digita l the forfeit was in response to the presence of trans athlete AB Hernandez on the Jurupa Valley staff.

Native mother and father confirmed as much as the Riverside Unified Faculty District board assembly on Thursday to talk out in assist of the ladies who forfeited and towards the college district for its present gender insurance policies, whereas others spoke in assist of trans athletes in ladies' sports activities.

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Hernandez's mom, Nereyda Hernandez, confirmed as much as defend AB's proper to play in ladies' sports activities, and condemned board member Amanda Vickers for beforehand interviewing with Fox Information Digital concerning the forfeit final week.

"Amanda Vickers, you interviewed with Fox. You really entertained and welcomed harassment to my baby. You're a board member. You've got an oath to guard, to assist all kids, not simply those that suit your concepts, your beliefs," Hernandez stated.

"Whenever you enable or tolerate focused harassment, whether or not on-line, in particular person or permitting false narratives to be unfold at board conferences, you're solely failing morally.

"My daughter just isn't the issue. The issue is coordinated exterior efforts usually led by people that journey from district to district… to unfold worry and put mother and father towards one another utilizing faith as a defend for discrimination. This has nothing to do with equity in sports activities and all the things to do with erasing transgender kids."

One mom, Maria Correo, spoke in assist of the Riverside Poly gamers and condemned mother and father enabling male kids to play in ladies' sports activities.

"The women, nice job. Poly ladies, we stand with you. Preserve combating, as a result of these mother and father that assist their confused baby are the issue," Correo stated. "If my baby was on medication, I might love him, however guess what? I might inform him the reality; medication are unhealthy for you. I might not feed him extra medication."

Riverside turned a hotbed of controversy involving trans athletes in ladies' sports activities final yr throughout Hernandez's highly-publicized season and after a lawsuit was filed by two ladies at Martin Luther King Excessive Faculty that alleged a trans athlete took one of many ladies' varsity spots on the cross-country staff.

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The scholars on the college then started carrying the "Save Ladies Sports activities" T-shirts each week in response after college directors allegedly in contrast the shirts to swastikas, in keeping with the lawsuit.

One mom, who solely recognized herself as Sandy R., urged the board members to undertake their very own decision to ban trans athletes from ladies' sports activities, breaking from state legislation. One college board in California has already performed this – the Kern County Board of Schooling, earlier in August. Sandy R. referenced the lawsuit that had been filed by the 2 college students.

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"I shall be so proud and so honored that an RUSD household would be the ones that take down an illegal and unconstitutional California legislation," she stated.

President Donald Trump warned California and Gov. Gavin Newsom concerning the state’s transgender insurance policies in a submit on Fact Social on Thursday.

"Any California college district that doesn’t adhere to our Transgender insurance policies, is not going to be funded. Thanks in your consideration to this matter!" Trump wrote within the submit.

Riverside Unified Faculty District board conferences featured a number of tense moments that went viral final fall amid the controversy at Martin Luther King Excessive Faculty.

In the meantime, AB Hernandez was the main focus of a nationwide media firestorm in Could throughout the athlete's run to a California ladies' observe and discipline championship. The postseason meets that Hernandez competed in have been met with protests by feminine athletes and their households, who usually wore the "Save Ladies Sports activities" T-shirts.

In July, the Division of Justice filed a lawsuit towards the California Department of Education (CDE) and CIF for its insurance policies which have allowed organic males to compete in ladies' sports activities throughout the state regardless of Trump signing an govt order in February to ban it.

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A bipartisan survey by the Public Coverage Institute of California discovered a majority of California residents oppose organic male trans athletes competing in ladies's sports activities.

That determine included greater than 70% of the state's school parents .

"Most Californians assist requiring transgender athletes to compete on groups matching the intercourse they have been assigned at beginning," the ballot said.

"Strong majorities of adults (65%) and sure voters (64%) assist requiring that transgender athletes compete on groups that match the intercourse they have been assigned at beginning, not the gender they determine with. An awesome majority of public college mother and father (71%) assist such a requirement."

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Jackson Thompson is a sports activities author for Fox Information Digital. He beforehand labored for ESPN and Enterprise Insider. Jackson has lined the Tremendous Bowl and NBA Finals, and has interviewed iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.