California families of girl athletes speak out as state changes championship rules amid transgender drama

While we are grateful that a few female athletes will regain their ability to compete at states and females will earn their rightful titles at this weekends competition, unfortunately CIFs trial program doesn’t actually fix anything. Women are still being forced to compete against biological males. The title IX civil rights of our daughters, sisters, friends and teammates are still being violated,

Viola's family said in a statement to Fox News Digital

The recent CIF rule changes clearly acknowledge a misstep on their part. However, what they've proposed falls short of what we truly need for all girls across all sports. I placed second in CIF, and I know that if I hadn't been competing against a boy, I would have claimed the top spot on the podium."

Hogan's family provided a statement from her to Fox News Digital that read

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As a Male, he was a less than average competitor,

Trump continued in an apparent reference to Hernandez

At the end of the day, all I can do is go out there and compete and just do my best and hopefully no matter what advantages or disadvantages any athletes have on me, I can still go out there and do my best and hopefully get first,

said Ali

Girls are already discriminated and now adding this to the layers of complexity?"

said Santia's mother, Teresa

In my mind, I think the state really probably has failed both athletes. I think girls should be able to compete fairly against other girls,

said Ali's father Stan

I competed against her, I think three weeks ago at the Mt. SAC relays invitation, and I think I got third maybe, third or second,

said Ali

It’s hard to put the diversity of human experience into just two boxes,

Cheung said

All of these characteristics lead to very, very substantial advantages in sports, and that is regardless of your gender identity or how you were identified at birth,

said Dr. Joanna Harper, a postdoctoral scientist researching transgender athletes in Oregon who has advised several sports’ governing bodies, including the IOC

For practical purposes, prepubescent boys and girls, before age 10 or 11, they can pretty much compete in the same sports, and there’s not big differences in size, power, speed,

Anawalt said

This is that social justice issue where science is just not going to satisfy everybody,

Anawalt told UW Medicine in 2023

Using upper-body strength as an example, there tends to be a rate of difference. So things like baseball pitching, the difference in speed, there may be a 40% to 50% difference. But if you are looking at something like swimming or rowing, it might be like a 10% difference,

said Cheung, a professional fellow in endocrinology at Melbourne Medical School

There are many, many differences in humans, regardless of gender, that give people athletic advantages,

she said, such as taller height, a greater wingspan, a higher proportion of fast-twitch muscle fibers or more flexibility

In absolute sense, trans women will still be stronger than cisgender or typical women, even after a prolonged period of testosterone suppression, even after adjusting for weight, though a trans woman will have more muscle mass for about one to three years after testosterone has been suppressed,

Harper said

If you’re trying to be ‘fair’ – however fair is defined – then you need to look at individual athletic activities directly,

Dr. Joshua Safer, executive director of the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery, told CNN last year

No matter how much science you throw into this, you’re going to still be left with people asking questions, ‘Well, what about this? What about that?’

Anawalt told CNN

I am ordering local authorities, if necessary, to not allow the transitioned person to compete in the State Finals

He added

We remain committed to defending and upholding California laws and all additional laws which ensure the rights of students, including transgender students, to be free from discrimination and harassment. We will continue to closely monitor the Trump administration’s actions in this space,

the statement said

The CIF policy creates two sets of rules — one for transgender girls, who must earn a place through traditional measures of competition, and another for ‘biological females,’ some of whom are allowed an extra chance to earn a spot,

Redfield said in an email

Unlike inclusion policies that ignore sex differences, doing it this way doesn’t gaslight the other girls about their biology,

said Coleman, who has researches subjects including children, sports and law and wrote recently on the evolving definition of sex