California Track Athletes Challenge 2013 Trans Sports Law Ahead of State Finals
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Updated · Fox News · May 13
California Track Athletes Challenge 2013 Trans Sports Law Ahead of State Finals
2 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 13
Reese Hogan and Olivia Viola said California’s rules on transgender athletes make girls’ track unfair as they prepare for this weekend’s CIF Southern Section finals in Moorpark.
Hogan said she would have won last Saturday’s sectional high-jump preliminaries outright without a trans competitor and called it her third straight year facing the issue after losing a CIF title last year.
At a recent 'Save Girls Sports' rally and again on Fox News, both athletes rejected Governor Gavin Newsom’s office calling critics bullies, saying they oppose state policy rather than individual athletes.
California has allowed students to compete in sex-segregated sports based on gender identity since AB 1266 took effect in 2013, and state education agencies are now fighting the Trump administration in a federal Title IX lawsuit.
With the Olympics now requiring genetic tests, can California's inclusive high school sports policies survive the global shift?
Science shows conflicting data on transgender athletes' advantages. What evidence should actually decide the rules of fair play?