https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/45413586/trans-athlete-ab-hernandez-wins-girls-calif-high-jump-title
Trans athlete AB Hernandez wins 2 Calif. H.S. jumping events
CLOVIS, Calif. -- A transgender athlete bested the competition Saturday at the California high school track and field championships to take home gold in the girls' high jump and the triple jump at a meet that has stirred controversy and drawn national attention.
AB Hernandez competed under a new rule change that might be the first of its kind nationally by a high school sports governing body.
Hernandez finished the high jump with a mark of 5 feet, 7 inches, with no failed attempts. Co-winners Jillene Wetteland and Lelani Laruelle also cleared that height after each logged a failed attempt. The three shared the first-place win, smiling as they stepped together onto the podium.
Hernandez, a junior at Jurupa Valley High School, wrapped up the night with a first-place finish in the triple jump, sharing the top spot with Kira Gant Hatcher, who trailed by just over a half-meter.
Earlier in the afternoon, Hernandez placed second in the long jump.
Olympians Marion Jones and Tara Davis-Woodhall previously set state championship records in the long jump in 1993 and 2017, respectively, both surpassing 22 feet. This year's winner, Loren Webster, topped 21 feet, with Hernandez trailing by a few inches.
Webster, a senior from Wilson High School, told the Los Angeles Times that she focused only on her performance and didn't give Hernandez much thought.
"It wasn't any other person I was worried about," Webster said. "I knew what I was capable of. I can't control the uncontrollable."
The California Interscholastic Federation announced the new policy earlier this week in response to Hernandez's success heading into the championships. Under the policy, the federation allowed an additional student to compete and medal in the events where Hernandez qualified.
The two-day championship kicked off Friday in sweltering heat at a high school near Fresno. Temperatures reached the triple digits during Saturday's finals.
The atmosphere was relatively quiet despite critics -- including parents, conservative activists and President Donald Trump -- calling for Hernandez to be barred from competing. Some critics wore pink bracelets and T-shirts that read, "Save Girls' Sports."
During Friday's qualifying events, an aircraft circled above the stadium for more than an hour with a banner: "No Boys in Girls' Sports!" Two groups that oppose transgender athletes participating in women's sports -- the Independent Council on Women's Sports and Women Are Real -- took credit for flying the banner.
The federation's rule change reflected efforts to find a middle ground in the debate over trans girls' participation in youth sports.
"The CIF values all of our student-athletes and we will continue to uphold our mission of providing students with the opportunity to belong, connect, and compete while complying with California law," the group said in a statement after announcing its rule change.
The federation announced the change after Trump threatened to pull federal funding from California unless it bars trans girls from competing on girls' teams. The federation said it decided on the change before then.
The U.S. Department of Justice also said it would investigate the federation and the district that includes Hernandez's high school to determine whether they violated federal sex discrimination law.
California law allows trans students to compete on sex-segregated sports teams consistent with their gender identity.
>>1409307 (OP)literally no one cares but chuds and clickbait merchants
OP continues seething at girls enjoying girls sports
>>1409313>>1409316>>1409328>>1409333Great. Now the woman-wannabe enforcer brigade long with its accompanied armchair enablers and paid shills and random morons who got paid are here to shit up this place and the world. You're the reason nice things can't happen so nobody ever wins. God help us all.
>>1409338Tell us more about how outraged the troon made you.
>>1409307 (OP)Why are men born with nipples?
Once that question is answered, anti-transtards will 41% themselves
>>1409307 (OP)I am a libertarian. I think society should be free to define what womanhood is rather than the state dictate to us what a woman is through law. There is a sociological side and a biological side.
Regarding sports, each organisation should be free to choose whether or not they accept trannies because in some sports, there is no biological advantage and in some sports there is. Therefore they should have the right to access participants assigned gender at birth and the stage of their transition and make the appropriate decisions. Each sporting agency knows best and can then be held responsible if it seems to have made a mistake. The state should not impose laws on who independent sporting agencies should let in each gender category. This is not the governments job because the government doesn’t understand each sport as well as each sporting organisation themselves.
>>1409338Literally tied for first with two cis women.
>>1409350>There is a sociological side and a biological sideThere isn't a sociological side and never has been until the last 15 to 20 years. For 99% of human history there hasn't been. If there had been, 95% of languages (besides English, coincidentally) would not have gendered their language.
>>1409346Unironically aesthetics #thankGod
>>1409356i guess you failed linguistics. do you really think spanish speakers see all inanimate objects as boys or girls? lol
>>1409307 (OP)Oh fuck here we go again. Another round of trans-supporters chanting
>durr ur worried about less than .1% they don't hold #1 forever literally all these other sports dey don't have 1st place in (yet) muh chess
>>1409362They do because they've gendered them as such. 'earth' is female because it is fertile and springs life. 'arrow' is masculine because of it's force and destructive power. And it is impossible to reverse them. This are two of countless and inumerable examples I could give on the matter.
>>1409362he also failed history so it isn't surprising
>>1409363>trans-supportingYou don't have to support trannies to not give a flying fuck about women's sports or who wins them
>>1409363Do you have a dedicated search just feeding you news about trannies all day long?
Or does it just come up while you're constantly googling fresh tranny porn?
You obviously care about transexuals a lot and watch them closely.
Do you filter Grindr to just get that girldick?
Where does your obsession come from
>>1409364you're fucking retarded, i almost feel bad for you.
>>1409371>Do you have a dedicated search just feeding you news about trannies all day long?Not him but I blame his phone algorithm for feeding him those stories knowing that he's going to kneejerk ballistically over any mention of trannies.
>>1409313>>140936779% of Americans dont want troons playing women's sports. but hey, we both know you are a troon and you jerk off to tranny porn
>>1409368you mean real girls. cis is a slur invented by troons
>>1409333trannies arent girls, faggot
>>1409356> last 15 to 20 yearsThat’s just simply not true. Gender as a social construct was a big part of feminist ideas in the 1970s. So really we are looking at over 50 years ago. Or if you wanted to go back even further, many cultures had a third gender which was not caused by biological conditions such as intersex, but caused by he fact that not everyone’s identity or role in society fit neatly into male or female.
>>1409388I am, you literally are confirmed not American. 79% of Americans dont want trannies in girls' sports
here's the part where esl shill begs us to believe that he's a white american
>>1409400we both know you are neither white nor American, tranny loving shill.
2 out of every 3 white American men under the age of 40 voted for trump. American men dont like trannies or illegals
>>1409400who could've possibly seen that coming
>>1409408nice samefag, shill boi. crazy how upset you get in every thread
>>1409411so you're mad at me, projecting shill? i'll never stop making fun of you as long as you post here, it's just too much fun. you could always quit and get a real job
>>1409413we get it, shill boi. you love trannies. that's why you always defend them even though 79% of Americans dont want trannies in girls sports. hell bud light is still down 30% in sales because Americans hate trannies. you are not American
>>1409418Not him but 79% of people who care about girls sports don't want trannies in girls sports. The actual number of people who care about girls sports is much much lower.
this is the part where esl shill talks about his fetish for absolutely no reason
>>1409419no, its 79% of all people. no one wants troons playing with their sisters or daughters and most people just fucking hate troons. you have a fetish
>>1409420it's your fetish. 4 out of 5 Americans hate toons but you keep posing about how much you love them
why are there gender division in sports? Isn't that an admission that women are not as good as men?
I figured chuds would be happy about this. It means they finally have a chance to win something!
>>1409333A man transitioning to a woman is not what id qualify as a biological "girl". You're just a delusional ideologue, incapable of seeing outside your echo chamber. There is a legitimate argument to be had that theres no point in segregating girls and boys sports if one or the other can simply change their identity and play in the opposite one. You shit up every thread here and I unironically want you to fuck off to wherever zogbot farm you crawled out of. Maybe go to reddit where you can play in tranny worshipping drum circles and sing kumbaya and revel in the complete lack of dissenting opinions all around you.
