Taylor Starling still remembers the day his life changed.
On October 22, she was withdrawn from the university team through the country to the Junior university team in Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California.
His place was taken by a trans athlete.
“I felt angry when they took me from my university team because I knew that the requirements changed for him because he is transgender. I felt that my sacrifice, hard work and dedication did not matter to the administrators of my schools because I am a girl. It was easy for them to push myself aside and that hurt,” Starling told Pak Gazette Digital.
“As for dealing with that, my family and my friends have been very supportive. I also know that everything happens for a reason and God has a plan for me. I always try to find the good when things are difficult and continue.”
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The Girls Athlete of the California Taylor Starling High School. (Provided to Pak Gazette Digital)
Now, only five months and two weeks later, at 16, he has much more on his dish than only practice and task.
She spoke in the California Capitol building in Sacramento in support of two state invoices to ban trans athletes from girls’ sports, challenging Pro-Trans protesters joined Bills.
His demand against his school district and the Attorney General of California, Rob Bonta, has his first judicial date of May 15. It is the centerpiece of a movement of months within their school and community in which students appear every Wednesday with “Save Girls Sports” t -shirts, overwhelming administrative efforts to avoid it.
However, it has not been all victories for her and her family.
His testimony could not convince the Democratic majority to support the two bills to ban trans athletes. His mother, a local public school teacher, faces the uncertainty of his school and other people in California potentially losing federal funds as the State refuses to comply with the executive order of President Donald Trump to keep men out of girls’ sports.
In March, Starling had to see his sister, Abby Starling, losing a 200 -meter race against the same Trans athlete that took his place in the university team in the fall.
In addition, the attention it has received for its activism in recent months has come with some more difficult moments.
“Social networks are quite bad,” said his father, Ryan Starling, to Pak Gazette Digital. “You have 99 positive comments, and then you get that comment that has called it a fan, has called it the word ‘C’, has called it all kinds of names.”
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His family was prepared for the reaction when they enrolled in the fight, since his lawyer warned them, Robert Tyler.
“When we took this case, we had a real sincere,” Tyler told Pak Gazette Digital. “I asked Taylor and Kaitlyn ‘are they prepared to deal with this? Can you walk through the halls of their school and don’t like you, call you and call you?’ And they were. ”
The family entered the Cultural War of Trans athletes in November, when they filed a lawsuit against the Unified School District of Riverside along with her friend and teammate Kaitlyn Slavin. They later expanded the demand to include Bonta in February, in protest of current laws in California that allow trans inclusion.
It is a lawsuit that Tyler and the families involved Hope establish a new precedent for gender eligibility in the state once it comes to trial on May 15, since the state legislature and Governor Gavin Newsom refuse to bring changes, risking federal fund cuts to the State.
In California, a law called AB 1266 It has been in force since 2014, giving California students at the Scholastic level and collegiate the right to “participate in school segregated programs and activities, including athletics equipment and competitions, and use facilities consisting of their gender identity, regardless of the genres that appear in the pupil records.”
This law and the devotion of the State to carry it out have already caused a rejection of the Trump administration. The Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, sent a formal warning at the end of March to Newsom and the rest of the State, suggesting that federal funds can be reduced to the State if it continues to allow trans inclusion in girls sports.
The Starlings and other families in California are witnessing in real time a potential model for what could soon happen to them throughout the country in Maine. That state has taken the stage as a “zero zone” in the conflict of trans athletes, since its reluctance to comply with Trump has already resulted in a freezing of USDA funds last week, and more potential sanctions this week.
“Well,” said Ryan Starling in response to seeing the situation in Maine, knowing that the same could develop soon in his state. “That is the only thing they respond is when your financing is cut and when you really affect your pockets, that is the only thing that will change it.
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Martin Luther King High School students in Riverside, California, wear t -shirts that read “Save Girls’ Sports” to protest a trans athlete in the field team through. (Courtesy of Sophia Lorey)
“Unfortunately, it could have a slightly difficult path in some of the teachers, but our teachers are resistant.”
Taylor Starling did his part to help avoid this when he pressed in Sacramento last week, delivering his story in support of the Bills Ab 89 and AB 844. Both bills would have prohibited trans athletes from girls’ sports throughout the state and put California in compliance with the Trump executive order.
On the other hand, the bills were not approved, and the Democratic Assembly Rick Zbur compared them to the practices of Nazi Germany. For Taylor Starling, it was a comparison that could endure more than the others in the room because, according to their demand, Martin Luther King High school administrators compared their “Save Girls Sports” shirts with the swastika in November.
“They have already called me that for the Atlético director, so now I am used to it. But it was a shock for everyone else, because he was also calling all the other Nazis. So I think that caused a great reaction of all and were more willing to talk against that,” he said.
“It was very sad to see that Democratic leadership in California could not defend the girls and the rights we deserve.”
Then, Taylor and his father had to leave Sacramento and return home to Riverside without any progress in a significant legislative change.
Now they look forward to their first appointment in court.
Ryan and Taylor Starling of Riverside, California. (Provided to Pak Gazette Digital)
Tyler said that in this case, they are trying to review the current law of California that allows trans inclusion in girls’ sports, and potentially governs that the law is a violation of title IX.
“We want to challenge that and argue that it is simply a violation of title IX, which is illegal, and we hope that the Court will look at it and throw it,” Tyler said. “We want this case to defend the proposal that it is time to recover our schools, it is time to recover the sports of our girls, it is time to recover common sense.”
The Starling family, the Slavin and Tyler family will seek to take a step to achieve an emblematic decision on the subject on May 15.
