Controversial school district for transgender athletes tells critics to blame lawmakers in CA and DC.

Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Riverside, California, addressed the controversy involving a transgender athlete on her gender-crossing team and the case of two girls on the team who said their “Save Women’s Sports” T-shirts were compared to swastikas by school administrators. .

The school has faced criticism locally from its students and nationally from female athlete activists, including Riley Gaines and Jennifer Sey.

In a statement given to Fox News Digital, the Riverside Unified School District (RUSD) says it has allowed a transgender athlete to compete on the team because it must comply with California state law. The school said that those who were offended by it should direct their anger to members of the state and government legislatures.

“As these issues continue in our courts and in the media, objections and protests should be addressed to those in a position to affect those laws and policies, including officials in Washington, DC, and Sacramento,” the statement said.

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The statement also cited language from the California Education Code, the California Code of Regulations and the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) bylaws, all of which provide protections for transgender athletes in public schools.

“It is important to remember that RUSD is obligated to follow California law which states that students are ‘allowed to participate in gender-segregated school programs and activities, including gender-specific sports teams and competitions, regardless of the gender on the student’s record,” the statement said.

“Although these rules were not created by RUSD, the district is committed to complying with the law and CIF rules. California state law prohibits discrimination against students based on sex, gender identity and gender expression and specifically prohibits physical sex discrimination. The protections we provide to all students are inconsistent with the law. not only but also our core values, which include equality and well-being.

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RUSD’s statement did not resolve the controversy surrounding the “Save Women’s Sports” t-shirts.

California has had state laws in place to protect transgender athletes in women’s sports dating back to 2014. That year, AB 1266 took effectwhich gives California students at the academic and college levels the right to “participate in sex-segregated school programs and activities, including sports teams and competitions, and use facilities consistent with their gender identity, regardless of the gender listed on the student’s records.”

And Martin Luther King High School isn’t the first public institution to blame the state’s Democratic-backed laws for a controversial spat with students sharing spaces with transgender athletes.

The University of Nevada, Reno faced conflict with its women’s volleyball players in October, when the athletes’ request to forfeit a game against a team with a transgender player was initially denied by administrators.

These players made their own public statements about benefiting from this game and held a press conference where they accused the university of trying to pressure them to play. The captain of the team, Sia Liilii, allegedly told the athletic department officials that they “don’t understand the science” of dealing with a transgender athlete.

The university provided a statement to Fox News Digital, stating that it cannot grant the player’s wishes to be forfeited without violating Nevada state law. The state constitution was revised in 2022 when Nevada voted to adopt the Equal Rights Amendment, which added gender identity to the list of protections.

Nevada state Sen. Pat Spearman, a North Las Vegas Democrat who sponsored the bill to be put on the ballot, said the law helped transgender people maintain their identities.

“As a public university, withholding funds for reasons involving gender identity or expression may constitute discrimination and violate the Nevada Constitution,” the university said in a statement.

The university ended up losing the game one day before it was scheduled to have enough players to compete with them.

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California and Nevada aren’t the only states that have faced controversy involving public school girls who didn’t want to face a transgender opponent last year.

Even states that have laws banning the adoption of the opposite sex have had incidents that occurred because of the decisions of liberal judges. New Hampshire and Virginia, both states with such laws, were affected in 2024.

Judges Landya McCafferty of New Hampshire and M. Virginia’s Hannah Lauck, both appointed during the Obama administration, each passed resolutions this year allowing naturalized men to play on high school girls’ soccer and tennis teams. McCafferty issued an order allowing two transgender athletes to compete in New Hampshire, while Lauck ruled that an 11-year-old tennis player was allowed to compete against girls of the same age in Virginia.

The Biden administration issued sweeping legislation clarifying that Title IX’s ban on “sex” discrimination in schools includes discrimination based on gender identity, sexuality and “pregnancy or related conditions” in April. Administrators emphasized that the regulation does not address athletic eligibility. However, many experts testify to Fox News Digital in June that it would finally put more natural men in women’s sports.

RUSD’s message on Friday gave the district an opportunity to remind the public that it is at the mercy of the Democratic Alliance on this topic.

Still, the students fought back.

Director of Outreach at the California Family Council, Sophia Lorey, revealed that more than 150 students have worn t-shirts to school since the controversy began and it is said that students who refuse to comply with the new dress code have been forced to spend many hours in the principal’s office. Lorey says that those students plan to continue to do this regularly despite the new law of their school.

“I got those numbers directly from the parents involved,” Lorey told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview. “Then I received a report on social media that the students plan to continue doing this every Wednesday.

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