California highschool volleyball group forfeits recreation in opposition to trans athlete

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A California high school women volleyball group forfeited a match in opposition to a group believed to incorporate a organic male trans athlete Friday evening.

Riverside Poly Excessive Faculty in Riverside County, California, introduced its forfeit in opposition to Jurupa Valley Excessive Faculty in an announcement.

"Riverside Poly Excessive Faculty’s girls volleyball team is not going to take the court docket for tonight’s scheduled recreation in opposition to Jurupa Valley Excessive Faculty," the assertion stated.

"This match might be recorded as a forfeit in non-league standings. We perceive that is disappointing for our athletes, households and supporters, and we respect the group’s understanding. We stay dedicated to offering a secure, optimistic surroundings for all student-athletes all through the season."

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No cause for the forfeit was supplied within the assertion.

Amanda Vickers, a member of the Riverside Unified School District board, advised Fox Information Digital she believes the forfeit is in response to Jurupa Valley together with trans athlete AB Hernandez on its roster. Hernandez was listed on Jurupa Valley's roster final season and is believed to be on the roster once more this 12 months.

"I do consider it's as a result of they're enjoying AB Hernandez, and {that a} resolution was made that the scholars did not need to," Vickers stated. "I did get a message yesterday that there [were] mother and father [of players] that have been carrying ‘Save Women Sports activities’ shirts. In order that they have been sort of ready for a protest at this time."

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Vickers added she believes the forfeit was vital for the sake of the protection of the feminine athletes, referencing former highschool volleyball participant Payton McNabb, who suffered everlasting mind injury when she was struck within the head with a spike from a trans athlete in 2022.

"What that is about is there's a distinction between organic women and organic boys. And, tonight, the women of Riverside Polly Excessive Faculty, they are not going to finish up like Payton McNabb," Vickers stated.

Jurupa Unified Faculty District supplied an announcement to Fox Information Digital addressing the forfeit.

"We have been notified that Riverside Poly Excessive Faculty canceled at this time’s scheduled women volleyball match with Jurupa Valley Excessive Faculty. They didn't disclose the explanation. Now we have no further remark presently," the assertion stated.

Fox Information Digital has reached out to Jurupa Valley Excessive Faculty head volleyball coach Liana Manu and Hernandez's mom for a response.

Riverside turned a hotbed of controversy involving trans athletes in women sports activities final 12 months throughout Hernandez's highly-publicized season and after a lawsuit was filed by two women at Martin Luther King Excessive Faculty that alleged a trans athlete took one of many women' varsity spots on the cross-country group. The scholars on the faculty then started carrying the "Save Women Sports activities" T-shirts each week in response after faculty directors allegedly in contrast the shirts to swastikas, in accordance with the lawsuit.

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Hernandez was the main target of a nationwide media firestorm in Could throughout the athlete's run to a California women 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 Women Sports activities" shirts.

Hernandez's run seemingly drew a response from President Donald Trump, who posted a Fact Social message this week main as much as the state remaining suggesting the state not enable the trans athlete to compete. Hernandez received the championship within the women excessive bounce and triple bounce at a meet that noticed an LGBTQ protester arrested for allegedly assaulting a conservative activist and a airplane flying overhead with a banner that stated "No boys in women' sports activities."

The U.S. Division of Justice then filed a lawsuit in opposition to the California Department of Education (CDE) and California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) for its insurance policies which have allowed organic males to compete in women sports activities throughout the state regardless of Trump signing an govt order in February to ban it.

Hernandez was honored by state Sen. Sabrina Cervantes on the Jurupa Metropolis Council Aug. 7. Cervantes was current to offer Hernandez two certificates on behalf of the California state senate and delivered a speech recognizing the athlete's championships.

A bipartisan survey by the Public Coverage Institute of California discovered a majority of California residents oppose organic male trans athletes competing in girls'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 delivery," the ballot acknowledged.

"Stable 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 delivery, not the gender they determine with. An amazing majority of public faculty 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.