California will consider a law banning trans athletes from girls’ sports after several scandals caused outrage
California State Assemblywoman Kate Sanchez announced Monday that she is introducing a bill to ban trans athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports.
Sanchez will propose the Girls Sports Act in the state legislature. Currently, 25 states have similar laws in effect. But California has had a state law in effect since 2014 that has allowed trans athletes to participate in women’s and girls’ sports, and even requires public institutions to protect trans athletes at the expense of their natural female competitors.
“Young women who have spent years training and sacrificing to compete at the highest level are now being forced to compete against people with undeniable natural advantages. It’s not just unfair – it’s disappointing and dangerous,” Sanchez said in a statement announcing the bill.
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California law, AB 1266which has been in effect since 2014, gives California students at the academic and college levels the right to “participate in gender-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.”
Section 4910(k) of the California Code of Laws defines gender as: “A person’s actual sex or perceived sex and includes a person’s identification with their identity, appearance or behavior, regardless of whether that identity, appearance, or behavior is different from that which is traditionally associated with the person’s sex at birth .”
California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Bylaw 300.D. reflects the Education Code, which states, “All students must have the opportunity to participate in CIF activities in a manner consistent with their gender, regardless of the gender listed on the student’s records.”
These current rules in the Golden Start have caused many scandals and national disputes involving trans athletes in women’s sports only in 2024.
Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, is currently embroiled in one of the most controversial local debates on the issue.
A recent school board meeting held by the Riverside Unified School District on Dec. 19 featured a forum of parents criticizing the board for allowing an athlete to run on the Martin Luther King girls’ cross country team. The lawsuit was filed by two girls on the team who alleged that their t-shirts against that player were emblazoned with swastikas simply because they said “Save Girls’ Games.”
The father of a girl who lost her varsity spot to a trans athlete recently told Fox News Digital that his daughter and other girls at school were told that “transgenders have more rights than cisgenders.[s]”by the school administrators when they protested the athlete’s participation.
Stone Ridge Christian High School’s girls volleyball team was scheduled to face San Francisco Waldorf in the Northern California Division 6 tournament but lost a pregame announcement about the presence of a trans athlete on the team.
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A transgender volleyball player was punched and molested during an Oct. 12 between Notre Dame Belmont in Belmont, California, against Half Moon Bay High School, according to ABC 7. Half Moon Bay scheduled a transgender athlete.
At the college level, San Jose State’s varsity volleyball team was marred by, arguably, the biggest sexist scandal in women’s sports history in 2024.
SJSU captain Brooke Slusser is facing multiple lawsuits against the university, the Mountain West conference and the NCAA, alleging that the school had one team, switching places and even bedrooms with teammate Blaire Fleming without informing her or other players that Fleming. he was a living man.
The team was the target of national attention this past season amid the controversy, as President-elect Trump even called out Fleming for how much the trans athlete kicked the ball at an opposing player during a Fox News town hall event in October.
The team saw eight games forfeit during the scandal, including the semifinal round of the Mountain West Tournament after Boise State declined to face the Spartans a third time. Slusser, Fleming and the rest of the team ended up playing in the championship game, where they lost to Colorado State to end their seasons and the two players’ separate college careers.
Slusser told Fox News Digital that everything that happened to Fleming was “torturous.”
“This season has hurt me so much that I don’t even have time to be proud,” said Slusser.
Most of the remaining teammates entered the transfer portal after the conflict.
Trump has promised to introduce legislation that would completely ban trans athletes from women’s sports in order to gain unanimous support from Republican supporters.
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The new Republican-controlled Congress will hear debate on the bill ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports in its first 100 days after voting yes to a package of new rules on Friday.
Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., celebrated Friday’s vote and will run again the bill included in the bill, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., told Fox News Digital that he has reintroduced the measure in the Senate, and with leadership approval, it is expected to receive a floor vote.
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