California State Assemblywoman Kate Sanchez announced Monday that she will introduce a bill to ban trans athletes from competing in women’s and girls’ sports.
Sánchez will propose the Girls’ Sports Protection Act to the state legislature. Currently, 25 states have similar laws in effect. But California has had a state law in place since 2014 that allows trans athletes to participate in women’s and girls’ sports, and even requires public institutions to protect trans athletes at the expense of biological female competitors.
“Young women who have spent years training and sacrificing to compete at the highest level are now forced to compete against individuals with undeniable biological advantages. Not only is it unfair, it is disheartening and dangerous,” Sánchez said in a statement announcing the bill.
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California law, AB 1266which has been in effect since 2014, grants California students at the school and college level the right to “participate in sex-segregated school programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, and to use facilities consistent with their gender identity, regardless of the gender that appears in the student’s records.”
Section 4910(k) of the California Code of Regulations defines gender as: “The actual or perceived sex of a person and includes the perceived identity, appearance, or behavior of a person, whether that identity, appearance, or behavior is different.” or not those traditionally associated with a person”. sex of the person at birth.”
California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Bylaw 300.D. reflects the Education Code and states: “All students must have the opportunity to participate in CIF activities in a manner that is consistent with their gender identity, regardless of the gender listed on the student’s records.”
These current laws in the Golden Start have resulted in multiple national scandals and controversies involving trans athletes in women’s sports in 2024 alone.
Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, is currently embroiled in one of the most contentious local controversies on the issue.
A recent school board meeting held by the Riverside Unified School District on Dec. 19 included a parade of parents berating the board for allowing a trans athlete to participate on the Martin Luther King women’s cross-country team. A lawsuit filed by two girls on the team alleges that their T-shirts protesting that player were compared to swastikas simply because they say “Save Girls Sports.”
The father of a girl who lost her spot on the varsity team to the trans athlete recently told Pak Gazette Digital that his daughter and other girls at school were told that “transgender people have more rights than cisgender people.”[s]” 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 Division 6 tournament, but forfeited in an announcement just before the game over the presence of a trans athlete in the team.
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A transgender volleyball player was booed and harassed at an Oct. 12 match between Notre Dame Belmont in Belmont, California, against Half Moon Bay High School, according to ABC 7. Half Moon Bay included the transgender athlete.
At the collegiate level, the San Jose State University volleyball team was hampered by arguably the biggest transgender-related scandal in women’s sports in recent history in 2024.
SJSU co-captain Brooke Slusser is involved in multiple lawsuits against the university, the Mountain West Conference and the NCAA, alleging that the school made her share equipment, trading spaces and even dorms with teammate Blaire Fleming without even inform her or other players that Fleming was a biological male.
The team was the target of national attention last season amid controversy, with President-elect Trump even criticizing Fleming for the force with which the trans athlete threw the ball at an opposing player during a Pak Gazette event. in October.
The team lost eight games amid the scandal, including the semifinal round of the Mountain West Tournament after Boise State refused to play 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 two players’ respective college careers.
Slusser told Pak Gazette Digital that the entire experience involving Fleming was “traumatizing.”
“This season has been so traumatizing that I don’t even have a proudest moment,” Slusser said.
Most of the team’s remaining players have entered the transfer portal following the controversy.
Trump has pledged to impose an outright ban on trans athletes in women’s sports with near-unanimous support from Republican allies.
The new Republican-controlled Congress will hear arguments on a bill that ban transgender athletes compete in women’s sports in their first 100 days after voting yes to a new rules package on Friday.
Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., welcomed Friday’s vote and will reintroduce the invoice included in the package of regulations, the Law on the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, told Pak Gazette Digital that he is also reintroducing that measure in the Senate and that, with leadership approval, it is expected to get a floor vote.
