California State Assemblywoman Kate Sanchez announced Monday that she is introducing a bill to Ban transgender athletes From competing in girls' and women's sports.
Sanchez will propose the Girls' Sports Protection Act to the state legislature. Currently, 25 states have similar laws in effect. But ca It has had a state law in effect since 2014 that enables trans athletes to participate in women's and girls' sports, and even requires public institutions to protect trans athletes at the expense of biological competitors.
“Young women who have spent years training and sacrificing to compete at the highest levels are now forced to compete against individuals with undeniable biological advantages,” Sanchez said in a statement announcing the bill. “This is not only unfair, it is demoralizing and dangerous.”
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california law, A B 1266which has been in effect since 2014, gives California students at the school and college levels the right “to participate in gender-segregated school programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, and to use facilities consistent with their gender identity, regardless of their gender identity.” The gender listed on the pupil’s records.”
California Code of Regulations Section 4910(k) defines sex as: “a person’s actual sex or perceived sex and includes a person’s identity, appearance, or behavior, whether that identity, appearance, or behavior is different from that traditionally associated with a person.” A person's sex at birth.”
California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Bylaw No. 300.d. It reflects the Education Code, which states that “all students shall have the opportunity to participate in CIF activities in a manner consistent with their gender identity, regardless of the sex listed on the student’s records.”
These current Golden Start laws have led to multiple scandals and national controversies involving transgender athletes in women's sports in 2024 alone.
Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, is currently embroiled in one of the most controversial local controversies over the issue.
The Riverside Unified School District's last school board meeting on Dec. 19 featured a display of parents rebuking the board for allowing a transgender athlete to join the Martin Luther King Jr. girls cross country team. A lawsuit filed by two girls on the team alleges that their protest jerseys for that player were compared to swastikas simply because they said “Save girls' sports.”
The father of the girl who recently lost her university place to a trans athlete He told Fox News Digital That his daughter and other girls at the school were told that “trans people have more rights than cisgender people” by school administrators when they protested the athlete’s participation.
The Stone Ridge Christian High School girls' volleyball team was scheduled to face San Francisco Waldorf in the Northern California Section 6 championship but lost in an announcement just before the game due to the presence of a trans athlete on the team.
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A transgender volleyball player was booed and heckled at an Oct. 12 game between Notre Dame Belmont in Belmont, Calif., against Half Moon Bay High School, according to ABC 7. Half Moon Bay was listed as a candidate. Transgender athlete.
At the college level, the San Jose State University volleyball team was hampered by the largest transgender scandal in women's sports in modern history in 2024.
SJSU co-captain Brooke Slusser has been involved in multiple lawsuits against the university, the Mountain West Conference and the NCAA, alleging that the school had her share a team, changing spaces and even bedrooms with teammate Blair Fleming without informing her or other players that Fleming was biologically male.
The team was the target of national attention last season amid controversy, with President-elect Trump criticizing Fleming for how difficult it was for the trans athlete to hit the ball on an opposing player during a Fox News town hall event in October.
The team saw it lose eight games amid the scandal, including the Mountain West semifinals after Boise State declined to face the Spartans for 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 season and the players' college careers.
It has locks He told Fox News Digital The entire experiment in which Fleming participated was “shocking.”
“This season has been so painful that I don't even have a proud moment,” Slusser said.
Most of the remaining players on the team have I entered the transfer portal In the wake of controversy.
Trump has vowed to impose a complete ban on transgender athletes in women's sports with near-unanimous support from Republican allies.
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The new Republican-controlled Congress is scheduled to hear arguments on a bill that would do just that Ban transgender athletes from competing in women's sports in its first 100 days after voting yes on the new rules package on Friday.
Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., celebrated Friday's vote and will reintroduce it Invoice Included in the rules package is the Women and Girls in Sports Protection Act.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., He told Fox News Digital He is also reintroducing the measure in the Senate and, with leadership approval, is expected to get a vote.
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