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Clovis, California, will be the epicenter in the political battle on trans athletes in girls’ sports this weekend.
The city organizes the Track and Field State Championship, which has been pushed into the National Center for National Attention in the middle of a Trans athlete competing in the girls category after President Donald Trump called the Social Truth situation this week.
Dianne Pearce, the mayor of the city, Pro Tem, told Pak Gazette Digital that she has been actively pressing so that Trump realized the situation for weeks and involved her local fellow officials.
“I have been in contact with the Office of Legislative Affairs of the White House to see what would need this community, from the Clovis area to show our support to the efforts of the Trump administration so that California complies with Title IX and its [“Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports”] Executive order, “Pearce said.
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Pearce said his way to involve the White House was to “amplify the voices” of the city’s residents, who only support female athletes who compete in girls’ sports.
Pearce succeeded in that goal, which culminated in a press conference that involved state and local leaders who speak in support of Trump’s executive order and against the Democrats for allowing Trans athletes to play in the sports of California girls before the championship meeting.
Pearce says that Trump’s publication was a driving factor in the enthusiasm for the cause.
The Press Conference presented statements from Pearce, the administrator of the Board of the Unified School District of Clovis, Tiffany Stoker Madsen, state assemblyman David Tangipa, who represents the district where Clovis, the representative of the House of Representatives, Vince Fong, which also represents the district where Clovis with headquarters with headquarters, and the supervisors of the County of Fresno, Gary Bredefel and Nathan, Maxson, everyone speaks in the support of Fresno County affairs.
“We must defend what is true and what is fair, especially in areas where biological differences make a difference,” said Stoker Madsen. “What is happening in women’s sports is incorrect. These female athletes deserve a leveling playing field … I urge Governor Newsom and our state legislatures of California to protect the women of California.”
Other local residents and officials, including Mayor Vong Mouanoutou, stood behind the speakers in solidarity with the Pro-Trump position.
While Mouanoutou and Pearce are Republicans, Clovis as a city has leaned to the left in recent years, although less remaining than other parts of the deep blue state. The County of the city of Fresno voted in favor of Trump in the 2024 elections in a 50.9% margin to 46.5%. However, the County voted the Democrats in all the previous presidential elections dating from 2008.
Now, the problem of trans athletes seems to be potentially pushing the city, or at least its leadership, even more in Trump’s corner. And residents will get a vision close to the impact of the problem at the meeting of this weekend title.
The state title meeting will take place at the Buchanan High School Memorial Stadium, with the preliminary round on Friday and the finals on Saturday. The event present and security is expected.
The athletes for girls from the California high school wear “Protect Girls Sports” shirts at a postseason track meeting at Yorba Linda high school on Saturday, May 10, 2025. (Courtesy of Reese Hogan)
In Tuesday’s social post, he said that “he would order local authorities, if necessary, that he does not allow the transition person to compete in the state finals.”
Pearce said he is not aware that this communicates with the city’s police force.
“As far as I know, that hasn’t happened,” he said.
A spokesman for the Clovis Unified Police Department told Pak Gazette Digital that he also does not realize any communication with Trump that involves security procedures for the event. Even so, Pearce awaits a vigilant police presence in the event.
“They are prepared to ensure that this weekend’s state championships are a safe atmosphere for our athletes and their families and those who choose to leave and support them this weekend,” Pearce said.
Once the competition begins, all eyes will be in the Trans athlete, AB Hernández de Jurupa Valley High School. Hernández has dominated the leap of the girls and the triple jump in this postseason, occupying the first place in both events in the finals of the South section on May 17 and the state qualifiers on May 24.
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Hernández has obtained scrutiny during the athlete’s postseason dominant career, often the spectators in the meetings. Pearce hopes that spectators treat Hernández with respect during the events on Fridays and Saturdays.
“I hope people treat this athlete with compassion. I think, unfortunately, the failures of adults who establish this policy created this situation. They have allowed this particular athlete to be in a position in which the controversy surrounds him wherever he goes, and I think that is unfortunate,” Pearce said.
“I don’t think anyone should do anything to make it insecure while here in Clovis competing, but again, it is unfair for him to be in the division of girls.”
Pearce said his “worst case” for this weekend’s meeting would be lack of respect and security for any of the competitors involved.
“If there is something that is not respectful and challenges the safety of the environment and the atmosphere, it would be terrible,” Pearce said. “These children deserve something better than that. Adults have already failed at the legislative level and the level of policy by the CIF, I hope those attendees do not fail them too.”
What Pearce expects to see is that female athletes come out victorious in their respective events. However, it is also prepared for more potential consequences of the meeting after helping to call Trump’s attention on the situation.
Trump’s insistence on enforcing his executive order has already resulted in a month dispute between his administration and the state controlled by Maine’s Democrats. The dispute has resulted in multiple funds of funds, which have already been reversed, and a lawsuit against the State by the United States Department of Justice.
With the Department of Justice by launching an investigation against California this week after Trump’s publication, Pearce knows that his status could be the next line for the cuts of funds on the subject. In addition, as a public employee, he knows that he could already affect her colleagues, but Pearce would completely support any fund cuts to her state on the subject anyway. For her, it is not a difficult decision to support.
“It is not a difficult decision to arrive, because the most important thing for me is that our girls and that their spaces are respected and protected,” Pearce said. “If they have to threaten that kind of action against CIF, Governor Newsom and the state legislature that would extract the federal funds from the State, again, the decision falls to those leaders. They can do the right thing and we don’t even have to talk about this.”
