A meeting of the School Board in California presented an emotional debate about transgender athletes that were allowed to share changing rooms with high school girls. The president of the Board, told a girl who cried during a speech to “wrap him.”
During the meeting of the Board of the Unified School District of Lucia Mar (LMUSD) on Wednesday, an athlete with a junior school girls at the Arroyo Grande school called Celeste Diest took the podium to tell her experience of having to change in front of a biologically masculine trans athlete before practice, while the athlete observed it to disregard.
“I entered the women’s locker room to change for the practice of track where I saw, at the end of my row, a biological man who looked not only at myself, but the other young women. This experience went beyond traumatization,” said Diest, while beginning to drown and cry.
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“Adults like you make us feel my colleagues to feel that our own comfort was not valid, although our privacy was and is still completely violated.”
Diest then fought through his tears to argue that the XY chromosomes of the trans athlete define the person as a man, adding: “That is the basic biology.”
But Diest was interrupted by the president of the LMUSD Board, Colleen Martin.
“It’s fine, please wrap it,” Martin said, pointing to Diest to finish his point.
The teenager sniffed and continued talking.
“I just want to ask ‘what about us?’ We cannot sit and allow our rights to serve an individual who is a man, who observes women to undress and is eliminating the female opportunity that was once fought for us.
Diest then moved away from the podium to a roaring applause of the audience before Martin tried to silence the cheers.
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Martin even began hitting his mallet to try to temper the growing applause, but the cheers only became stronger after that.
“No!” Martin shouted when the cheers became stronger.
Then, Martin sat in silence while the applause continued for several more seconds, before he finally tempered, and the next speech gave another speech opposing trans inclusion.
Before Diest’s speech, one of the other speakers, a woman named Shannon Kessler, who was scheduled to go after the teenager, asked Martin if he could give Diest time. But Martin denied that request.
“We are not doing that,” Martin said.
Several other parents gave speeches in the opposition of the athletes transalers, while other members of the community spoke in support of trans inclusion.
California has been one of the many blue states of the Nation in challenging the executive order of “keeping men out of women’s sports” by President Donald Trump, and has allowed Trans athletes to compete with girls for more than a decade.
A law called AB 1266 It has been in force since 2014, and offers California students at the Scholastic level and collegiate the right to “participate in school programs and activities segregated by sex, including sports teams and competitions, and use facilities consisting of their gender identity, regardless of the genres that appear in the pupil records.”
The California regulations code, section 4910 (k) defines gender as: “real sex or perceived sex of a person and includes the identity, appearance or behavior of a person, whether that identity, appearance or behavior is different from that traditionally associated with the sex of a person at birth.”
CIF Statute 300.D. It reflects the education code, stating: “All students should have the opportunity to participate in CIF activities in a way that is consistent with their gender identity, regardless of the gender that appears in the records of a student.”
These laws and the subsequent qualification of trans athletes compete with girls and women in the state have resulted in multiple controversies on the subject only during the last year.
The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) said it will continue following the State’s Law that allows athletes to participate as any gender they identify, a spokesman for Pak Gazette Digital told Fox.
“The CIF provides students with the opportunity to belong, connect and compete in educational experiences in accordance with the California Law. [Education Code section 221.5. (f)] That allows students to participate in school programs and activities, including sports teams and competitions, according to the student’s gender identity, regardless of the gender that appears in the student’s records, “said a CIF statement.
The Democratic majority of the California State Legislature rejected two bills that would have changed state law to prohibit trans athletes of girls sports on April 1.
