California’s largest high school district has adopted a proposal that would bar transgender athletes from playing girls’ sports.
The Kern High School District, which serves about 40,000 students in Bakersfield, voted 3-2 in favor of a resolution that would bring the district into compliance with the Trump administration’s Title IX rules, which ban men who identify as women from participating in girls’ sports.
But the proposal also puts the district at odds with the state’s far-left Democrat-led Legislature and hardline Governor Gavin Newsom.
Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Education President Sonja Shaw wrote the resolution.
Shaw said, “I wrote this resolution to be the voice of our communities – to stand with our girls and defend the truth that should never have been silenced. Boys are boys. Girls are girls. God made them beautiful just the way they are. It’s time to put fairness, truth and common sense back into education,” Shaw said, according to Fox News.
Shaw’s district also passed a similar resolution.
Chino and Kern are part of a larger number of California schools adopting similar proposals. To date, 14 other school districts — for a total of 16 — have passed resolutions banning trans athletes to comply with Trump’s Title IX rules.
The districts are acting in protest of the state’s own law, passed in 2013, which allows transgender athletes to choose whatever gender they want to play under.
The revolt against transgender athletes is growing in the far-left state.
Recently, eight girls’ high school volleyball teams have refused to play against Jurupa Valley High, which has allowed a transgender player to join its girls’ team.
Transgender athlete Abby Hernandez of Jurupa Valley leaves the track during the CIF State Track and Field Championships at Veterans Memorial Stadium on May 30, 2025 in Clovis, California. (Kirby Lee/Getty Images)
Several girls have filed lawsuits against the district and the state.
Three girls, two Catholic and one Muslim, have also filed a lawsuit against Jurupa Unified School District (JUSD), the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF), and the California Department of Education (CDE), alleging that they were offended and their religious principles were violated by being allowed to use the girls’ locker room.
Two of the girls, Alyssa McPherson and Hadel Hazameh, said they left the team over their religious objections and discomfort with a boy hanging out in the girls’ locker room.
“Plaintiffs have been subjected to an intentionally hostile environment created by Defendants in which they were induced by school officials to censor their objections to competing with a male and to sharing intimate and private spaces with a male,” the lawsuit says.
Sue says, “Their faith emphasizes modesty, dignity, and respect for gender differences, which must be consistent with one’s biological sex in both practice and identity.”
California’s radical, leftist Governor Gavin Newsom has refused to take any responsibility for the issue and, in response to the boycott, claimed he did not create the trans rule and said that if the state legislature wanted to change it, they could. However, he has not said whether he would sign such a bill, and since he has supported trans ideology in schools, it is very doubtful that he would sign the subsequent ban on trans athletes.
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