The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) is trying to appease both sides after male athletes continue to dominate track events in the female category.
Leslie mentioned the changes in her piece about President Donald Trump’s threat to withdraw funding from California for allowing males to participate in female sports.
I want to expand on it, though.
This sounds decent at first:
Under this pilot entry process, any biological female student-athlete who would have earned the next qualifying mark for their Section’s automatic qualifying entries in the CIF State meet, and did not achieve the CIF State at-large mark in the finals at their Section meet, was extended an opportunity to participate in the 2025 CIF State Track and Field Championships. The CIF believes this pilot entry process achieves the participation opportunities and we seek to afford our student-athletes.
Except…
CIF will still allow the males who stole first-place spots from those females to compete.
There’s more. I kid you not.
If a male wins an event, CIF will allow the female who missed a spot on the podium to receive a medal.
Guys…I’m shaking my head.
No, CIF. The only problem in this situation is a male competing in the female category.
So if the male wins the event, he still gets the first-place medal.
Only females should be on the podium. The only solution is to ban males from female sports.
Also, stop calling us biological females. We are female. We are the only females.
The changes come after Reese Hogan set social media on fire when she stood on the first-place podium after the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Southern Section Finals.
That’s because Hogan won the triple jump…not the male athlete AB Hernandez from Jurupa Valley, who defeated her by four feet.
Hernandez stole the first-place medal from Hogan, who set a personal record and Crean Lutheran High School record with her 37 feet, 2 inches jump.
Hogan and her family spoke to Fox News:
Hogan’s family provided a statement from her to Fox News Digital that read, “The recent CIF rule changes clearly acknowledge a misstep on their part. However, what they’ve proposed falls short of what we truly need for all girls across all sports. I placed second in CIF, and I know that if I hadn’t been competing against a boy, I would have claimed the top spot on the podium.””Unfortunately, we can’t revisit that moment to rectify this injustice. This issue transcends a single meet, sport, or individual; it’s fundamentally about the rights of all females to compete fairly among themselves. We deserve that opportunity, and we will continue to advocate for it.”Hogan has previously told Fox News Digital she finds the situation involving Hernandez “sad.””It’s just kind of sad just watching. He’s obviously a really talented athlete, we’ve all seen him jump and stuff, and I wish him the best of luck, but in a boys’ division,” Hogan previously told Fox News Digital about competing against the athlete. “It’s pretty obvious the certain advantages that he has, and it’s obviously just sad as a woman to watch that.”
The DOJ opened an investigation into California over males participating in the female categories.
Does the move violate federal law?
U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said males in female sports violates federal law:
Essayli said biological female athletes’ rights are being violated by including transgender athletes in girls’ sports.”They’re denying girls those opportunities, and that’s exactly what Title IX was designed to prohibit; to prohibit discrimination based on gender in athletics, and that’s what’s happening today.”Essayli said the Department of Justice is also submitting a statement of interest in a different case pending in federal court, in which a lawsuit was filed by two students at King High School in Riverside.
Trump signed an executive order protecting female sports and spaces.
Trump’s administration threw out the former President Joe Biden’s administration’s awful rewrite of Title IX, giving males a pass to play in female sports and use female spaces.
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