Despite the recent Supreme Court ruling in favor of girl-only sports, California will continue to allow “transgender”-identified male athletes to compete in girls and women’s sports.
According to Fox News Digital, a spokesperson for Governor Gavin Newsom said that “the Supreme Court ruling will not impact California’s current setup.”
Reporter Jackson Thompson posted on X about the governor’s office’s response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in State of West Virginia v. BPJ that states are allowed to protect girls and women’s sports with laws that keep sports separate based on biology.
But the Court’s ruling did not overturn state laws that allow boys to compete on the basis of “gender identity,” a spurious, completely subjective individual and social construct.
Fox News Digital received a statement from the governor’s office which read: “The Governor has said discussions on this issue should be guided by fairness, dignity, and respect. He rejects the right wing’s cynical attempt to weaponize this debate as an excuse to vilify individual kids. The Governor’s position is simple: stand with all kids and stand up to bullies.”
That position seems to be at odds with what Newsom said just a year ago in a conversation on his podcast, “This is Gavin Newsom.” Charlie Kirk, who was Newsom’s guest on the podcast’s launch, asked him, “Would you say no men in female sports?”
Newsom replied, “Well, it’s I think it’s an issue of fairness. I completely agree with you on that it is an issue of fairness.” The Governor went on to mention his wife and two daughters’ involvement in sports.
So which is it, Gov. Newsom? He has taken no steps to protect his daughters and preserve girls and women’s sports for female athletes.
California was one of the first states to allow boys who identify as female to compete on a girlsteam, after the legislature passed Assembly Bill 1266 in 2013. The law applied to kindergarten through 12th grade, requiring that “a pupil be permitted to participate in sex-segregated school programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, and use facilities consistent with his or her gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on the pupil’s records.”
That legislation also affected girls’ privacy and safety, as it opened school locker rooms, showers and restrooms to boys who identify as girls.
The California governor has taken no steps to implement “fairness” and protect female athletes. Instead, his administration has fought to keep boys who reject their masculinity in girls sports.
For example, the state is battling a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice against the California Department of Education and California Interscholastic Federation for violating Title IX. The lawsuit described numerous incidents of boys taking spots on teams and victories from girls, as well as violating girls privacy and safety by changing with them and watching them undress in locker rooms.
In addition, California filed its own lawsuit against the Department of Justice over its demand the state prohibit male athletes from competing in women’s and girls sports.
In addition to California, Illinois officials have stated that males who claim to be female can still compete on girls teams. The Chicago Sun-Times reported on a statement from Attorney General Kwame Raoul: “In Illinois, transgender students have the right to fully participate in school activities, including sports. Nothing in today’s opinion prohibits states like Illinois from allowing student athletes to participate on teams consistent with their gender identity and pursuant to [Illinois High School Association] guidelines.”
Raoul misses the point completely: “Transgender” students have always been allowed to take part in school activities. But they should participate based on their sex – not on a misleading “gender identity.”
According to the Movement Advancement Project, an LGBT activist organization, 21 states and Washington, D.C., do not protect girls sports.
Hopefully, the Court will take up a case soon challenging these states that reject biological reality in favor of false and destructive transgender ideology.
Daily Citizen is a news division of Focus on the Family that provides a faith-based perspective to counter the mainstream media’s anti-Christian bias.
