AB Hernandez, a transgender athlete
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Roughly 10 protestors came to Veterans Memorial Stadium in Clovis in opposition to the Jurupa Valley athlete competing Friday afternoon.
President Trump has threatened to withdraw federal funding from California over transgender high school athlete AB Hernandez, who qualified for the state championship meet.
Protestors gathered at the corner of the campus at Minnewawa and Nees avenues and held signs criticizing the state, the California Interscholastic Federation and the transgender student athlete.
AB Hernandez continues to prepare for the CIF State Track and Field competition, which takes place Friday and Saturday in Clovis.
California’s high school track-and-field state finals will award one extra medal in events where a transgender athlete places in the top three, a rule change that may be the first of its kind nationally by a high school sports governing body.
After President Donald Trump’s threat to withhold federal funding to California over its transgender athletes law, the state changed to its competition eligibility rules for the state track
Amaya Faison of Rosary Academy was allowed to compete in the CIF State prelims as a result of a recent change made by the CIF.
The probe will look into whether California is violating the civil rights of cisgender girls by allowing transgender students to compete in school sports.