In California, the Tail is Wagging the Dog on Biological Men in Women’s Sports

Tuesday President Donald Trump announced that California’s current policy of allowing biological males to compete in girls sports against girls, will result in significant cuts in federal funding if California continues to resist the President’s executive order banning biological men from participating in girls school sports.

A little later in the day, the California Interscholastic Federation, which governs high school sports in California, and has said it follows state law allowing athletes to play on a sports team “consistent with their gender identity,” altered their gender policy, clearly interested in covering their butts. The CIF created a “pilot entry process” to allow previously eliminated female athletes to now participate in the 2025 CIF State Championships.

What a big bold move for the CIF, which is still not honoring or protecting California’s high school female athletes from biological males, or their opportunities in competition, by allowing the trans athletes to still compete against women and girls.

The only way to correct this injustice and violation of Title IX is to to require single-sex spaces (bathrooms, locker rooms) and single-sex opportunities (sports) on campuses; to only play on sports teams based on their biological sex and not their gender identity; and ban trans athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports.

Wednesday, as I was writing this, the United States Department of Justice announced they formally entered the legal battle to save girls’ sports in California, filing a Statement of Interest in a federal lawsuit brought by Advocates for Faith & Freedom on behalf of two courageous female high school athletes in the Riverside Unified School District.

After being pushed out of a key competition, missing critical exposure for college scouting, all in the name of policies that undermine fair play in girls’ sports, two female high school athletes protested by wearing shirts that read, “Save Girls’ Sports” and “It’s Common Sense. XX ≠ XY.” The school claimed their shirts created a “hostile” environment, comparing wearing these shirts to wearing a swastika in front of Jewish students.

“The Department of Justice’s filing sends a clear message: Title IX was designed to protect biological females in sports, not to be twisted into a tool that allows boys to displace girls on the track, the podium, or in scholarship opportunities.”

Notably, only men/boys who are mediocre at a sport claim “trans woman” status to compete and dominate women at that sport. Women do not claim to be men in order to compete in their sports – because that would be ridiculous and dangerous.

In March the Globe attended a CIF executive committee meeting where the Coalition of Women and CIF High School Female Athletes addressed the issue of biological males participating in women and girls sports. The CIF got an earful from women, moms, parents, and female student athletes – primarily about how unsafe it is for female athletes when teen boys and young men are allowed to compete in sports against teen girls and young women, because of California’s education code and CIF policy.

Moms and daughters reported to the CIF that boys/men in their locker rooms and bathrooms is not only uncomfortable, but dangerous and creepy. Jordan, a high school athlete who runs track and cross-country, implored the CIF to understand that the issue is about fairness and safe competition. She warned that the injuries to female athletes are increasing. “How many more injuries will it take for women and young girls to feel safe?” she asked.

She said aloud what most everyone already knows: the boys have more physical advantages, are more muscular, stronger, faster, and “no young women should have to feel they aren’t safe. Women’s safety matters,” she added.

But the CIF dug in and kept the absurd policy in place allowing self-identifying “trans” high school athletes to play on a sports team “consistent with their gender identity.” And since March, many high school female athletes have been robbed of wins and future opportunities.

As the President posted on Truth Social Tuesday:

In California, the tail is wagging the dog. And Democrats and Gov. Newsom are allowing the few “trans” athletes to run roughshod over all women’s sports.

This is President Trump’s Executive Order:

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order keeping men out of women’s sports.

• The Executive Order upholds the promise of Title IX and ends the dangerous and unfair participation of men in women’s sports.
  • The order requires DOJ to abide by the nationwide vacatur of the previous Administration’s illegal Title IX rewrite that would have dissolved single-sex spaces and opportunities.
  • The order also requires immediate action, including enforcement actions, against schools and athletic associations comprised of schools that deny women single-sex sports and single-sex locker rooms.
• The Executive Order calls for the convening of private sporting bodies in the White House to hear, in person, the stories of female athletes who suffer life-long injuries, who have been silenced and forced to shower with men, and whose hard work has been cast aside due to the biological advantage of males.
• The Executive Order directs State attorneys general to identify best practices for ensuring equal opportunities for women in sports and to highlight impact stories of women harmed by male athletes competing in women’s sports.
• The Secretary of State will demand changes within the International Olympic Committee to preserve single-sex sports, a necessity for safety and fairness.
• The Department of Homeland Security will review visa policies to address males falsely asserting they are females when entering the United States to compete in women’s sports.

The DOJ federal lawsuit “centers on a female high school athlete who was removed from the Varsity Top 7 cross-country roster after a male athlete—who had transferred schools and previously excelled as the top runner—was given preferential treatment and allowed to join the girls’ team. The male athlete proceeded to displace other female athletes from races, podium spots, and college scouting opportunities. When the athletes wore shirts with the message ‘Save Girls’ Sports,’ district administrators forced them to cover or remove the shirts.”

Here is their story.

“The plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief to restore fairness and reinstate their rights under Title IX. The DOJ’s Statement of Interest bolsters the core of the case: that permitting biological males to compete in female sports violates the letter and spirit of federal law.”

The case is set for hearing in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on June 20, 2025, where the State and the School District are asking the Court to dismiss the case.

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