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A few days after President Donald Trump sent a warning The state allowed trans athletes to win two titles against female contestants on Saturday for women’s track and field states to compete in the women’s track and field states.
Ab Hernandez, a transgender student-athlete at Jurupa Valley High School, took first place in the girls’ high jump and triple jump State Championships Saturday at Veteran Memorial Stadium in Clovis, California.
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Julpa Valley transgender athlete AB Hernandez will compete in the Women’s High Jump at the CIF State Athletics Championships held at Veterans Memorial Stadium on May 30, 2025 in Clovis, California. (Kirby Lee/Getty Images)
Hernandez also finished second in a high jump to Lauren Webster at Woodrow Wilson High School. Lauren Webster was the only woman to finish before Hernandez at any competition that trans athletes competed with this weekend.
Hernandez previously placed first in all three events in Friday’s qualifying round.
However, all female competitors who finished behind Hernandez in the event all hit one spot and received the medals they earned if the trans athletes didn’t compete.
The Inter-California Governance Federation (CIF) has made a series of drastic rule changes leading up to the event to ensure that women who end up behind biological men are properly rewarded with medals based on where they are placed between female competitors.
Therefore, in the medal ceremony of the three events, the female contestant who finished one place behind Hernandez had to stand next to the trans athlete on the podium.
Ab Hernandez shares the No. 1 spot with her female competitors on the triple jump podium at the California Athletics Championships. (Personally courtesy of Beth Bourne)
Ab Hernandez shares the second-place spot on the medal podium with her female competitors at the California Athletics Championships. (Personally courtesy of Beth Bourne)
Still, Hernandez’s girls’ presence in the competition prompted a major presence of controversy and protest throughout the weekend.
Contradictory protests plagued the championship on Friday with Pro-LGBTQ protesters and their best friend who wielded the signs, flags and clothing expressing their respective messages.
He holds a Save Girls Sports Sign at the protest of Jurpa Valley transgender athlete AB Hernandez at the Veterans Memorial Stadium on May 30, 2025 in Clovis, California. (Kirby Lee/Getty Images)
On Friday, a plane was flying a banner that reads “There are no boys in girls’ sports!” We passed the stadium.
However, at one point the conflict between the protesters became violent. LGBTQ protesters allegedly attacked local conservative activist Josh Fulfer with a flagpole on Friday. Footage obtained by Fox News Digital shows LGBTQ protester Ethan Kroll appears to be attacking Fulfer through a car window, before Kroll was arrested.
Police records obtained by Fox News Digital show that the man Kroll was arrested for assaulting a deadly weapon other than a firearm, obstructing civil servants and vandalism.
Clovis Police Sgt. Chris Hutchison told Fox News Digital that no other criminal cases occurred at or near the track competition Friday night.
“Our attitude is to allow people to exercise their constitutional rights to free speech and protest,” Hutchison said. “They have the right to do it in a way that does not incite violence or cause other problems. …We have no room for violence or damage to property.”
However, on Saturday, California Family Council outreach director Sophia Raleigh was escorted from the Veterans Memorial Stadium by CIF officials for handing out a “girls sports” wristband in pro-mail messaging to spectators. The footage shared by Lorey on social media shows her conflict with CIF officials as Lorey is gestured away from the venue.
Lorey told Fox News Digital that he had no problem with his message at a previous event.
“We handed out half-page flyers at the qualifying event and were not told that we couldn’t do that,” Laurie said.
Fox News Digital has contacted CIF for comments about Lorey’s video.
Lorey and local conservative activist Beth Bourne told Fox News Digital that unlike previous events, the megaphone man repeatedly ordered spectators not to make lightly par comments about competitors, officials or other spectators on Saturday.
Laurie held a press conference at the meeting earlier that day. There, California 2026 governor candidate Steve Hilton spoke in support of protecting girls’ sports from trans-inclusion.
Current governor Gavin Newsom has been frequently the subject of local and national criticism throughout the athletics postseason to allow trans athletes to compete, despite his previous acclaiming that trans athletes compete on podcasts.
Trump picked Newsom on Truth Social Post on Tuesday, threatening to cut funds for the state if trans athletes are allowed to compete in women’s competition this weekend. However, the nation did not succumb to Trump, simply passing changes to the rules to accommodate other female athletes instead.
The U.S. Department of Justice released a state investigation into the issue on Wednesday, and the U.S. Department of Education has been investigating states over the issue since February.
But California is far from the only state that has seen the Girl’s Athletics Championship hidden by the trans-athlete controversy.
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That same weekend, the Transathletes reportedly competed in Maine, Washington, Oregon and Minnesota, winning state competitions.
Trump signed an executive order on February 5th “holding men out of women’s sports,” but many democratic states have openly denied order, bringing multiple controversial situations in 2025, involving Hernandez across the country.
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