California AG responds to Trump's crackdown on trans athletes amid track championship chaos
California Attorney General Rob Bonta is facing a Department of Justice study over his state's laws allowing transgender athletes in girls sports The DOJ broadcasted the review Wednesday one day after President Donald Trump threatened to pull funding from the state for allowing a trans athlete to compete in a girls track and field championship Bonta's office responded to the latest pressure on him and the state of California over the issue in a announcement to Fox News Digital CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS COM We remain committed to defending and upholding California laws and all additional laws which ensure the rights of students including transgender students to be free from discrimination and harassment We will continue to closely monitor the Trump administration s actions in this space the announcement disclosed The DOJ's announcement of its study against the state cited a lawsuit that includes Bonta as a defendant The lawsuit filed by the families of two girls at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside California alleges the school's cross-country squad dropped one athlete from her varsity spot in favor of a trans athlete and that school administrators compared their Save Girls Sports T-shirts to swastikas Fox News Digital has previously published HOW TRANSGENDERISM IN SPORTS SHIFTED THE POLL AND IGNITED A NATIONAL COUNTERCULTUREThe suit filed in November seeks to challenge the state's current law that allows trans athletes to compete as girls which has been in place since The lawsuit expanded a defendant list to include Bonta Feb Just days later after Trump signed the Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports executive order Feb the U S Department of Development launched an scrutiny into the California Interscholastic Federation CIF for openly defying the order Now the tension in the state figures to come to a head this weekend at the girls track and field state championship The CIF has already made several rule changes that accommodate girls who would be displaced by the trans athlete AB Hernandez of Jurupa Valley High School The changes include giving medals to any biological female competitors who would have earned a podium spot if not for Hernandez placing ahead of them Still various families and activists are speaking out against the CIF for allowing the situation to continue at all and the Trump administration has given no indication the rule changes will satisfy its demands on the issue Follow Fox News Digital s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter
