California has allowed Transgender girls to participate in girls sports for more than a decade in schools, but the state approach has never been tested as it will be this week.
Friday, a transgender girl is expected to compete with the best female athletes in California in three events at the state athletics competition, which will be held over two days in Clovis, near Fresno.
President Trump threatened on Tuesday to suspend federal funding from California if the state has not prohibited the trans -competition girl. Civil rights defenders responded by defending it and denouncing the threat of Mr. Trump as an intimidation behavior.
Governor Gavin Newsom, a democrat who supported transgender rights in the past, said this year that he found the participation of trans girls in the sports of “deeply unfair” girls. However, Mr. Newsom said he couldn’t find a fair way to satisfy everyone this spring.
This week, California Interscholastic Federation, the entity that organizes the state meeting, made its own last minute tent to explain how to keep the sports fair without excluding any athlete student.
The Federation said on Tuesday that it would allow additional athletes to qualify for the state meeting if they had been removed from a place by a transgender girl. According to a long -standing coach, at least two competitors have been added to the starting lists of the trans girls.
