A high school in San Diego has been stabbed in local controversy because of a transgender student who uses the girls’ dressing room.
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted against a measure on Tuesday for the Protection of women and girls In Sports Act, which would prevent transatletes from participating in girls ‘sports or entering girls’ smalls for girls.
VICE chairman of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors Jim Desmond put forward the proposal to a meeting of the San Diego Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. However, the measure did not receive any votes from other supervisors outside Desmond.
“People came to meet their thoughts that have already been approved about the issue,” Desmond told Fox News Digital.
“The rest were mothers who just didn’t think it was honest or safe for men to play in the safe for girls or women. So the room was probably 60-40 for them to let them play, but I just think that’s just The turnout of who was able to take the day free and to come here.
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Tuesday’s meeting contained various arguments from concerned parents who expressed their concern about their daughters who were forced to share changing rooms with biological men.
The high school where this controversy takes place, San Elijo Middle School provided a statement to Fox News Digital, enabling the transgender student to gain access to the dressing room of the girls to the school’s obligation to follow the State Act.
“Public school districts in California are governed by and must act in accordance with the State Act of California and the California Education Code,” is the statement of San Elijo Middle School.
“As a public school district in California, we will continue to follow the national legislation and guidance of the California Department of Education to ensure that all students are treated with dignity, respect and fairness. Our district remains committed to maintaining policy that all Supports students, in accordance with state protection and anti -discrimination laws.
President Donald Trump signed the Executive Order “No Men in Women’s Sports” last Wednesday, reducing federal financing for every educational institution with which biological men can compete with girls and women.
However, several states, including California, have insisted that they will not comply with the Order of Trump. According to USA -FeitenCalifornia Public Schools receive around $ 16.8 billion a year, which is 13.9% or one in seven dollars in public school financing, which is well above the national average.
The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) said it will continue to follow the law of the State with which athletes can participate as every gender they identify, a spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
“The CIF offers students the opportunity to belong, connect and compete in education-based experiences in accordance with the legislation in California (Education Code Section 221.5) with which students can participate in school programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, in accordance with the student’s gender identity, regardless of the gender stated on the records of the student, “said a CIF statement.
Desmond said that many of his local voters expressed himself to him to express concern and disbelief about dealing with the situation by the state.
“They think it’s crazy and I have heard questions about” Is it even legal? “Said Desmond.
For Desmond, as a Republican, he sees the democratic refusal to satisfy the Order of Trump as a matter that will continue to harm the support for the party in his state.
“These people did not get the message in the last elections and they dig into the gap deeper. They double down and dig their heels in the ground:” Yes, we’re right, “said Desmond, adding that he thinks and hopes That the debate of the Transatleet will strengthen Republican support in California.
“I think it enables us to enable the new administration and to do what is good. And that is all we are trying to do, we don’t try to discriminate anyone. If you want to be Trans, If you want to identify as a different (gender), go for it, you have the right, but where you don’t need a better system. ”
California’s decision not to comply with Trump’s order recently led to a recoil and even protests and threats from lawsuits by the inhabitants of the state.
On Friday, residents gathered in Long Beach, California, to protest Apart from a CIF Federated Board Meeting. The demonstrators then spoke during the board meeting and begged the CIF officials to follow the president’s order and to threaten civil lawsuits against the CIF and the State.
Currently there is one lawsuit against the CIF and the attorney -general of the state, Rob Bonta, over a situation At Martin Luther King High School with a transatlete in the girls’ cross -country ski team.
A recent school board meeting of the Riverside Unified School District on December 19 contained a parade of parents who scolded the board to allow a transatlete in the Cross-Country team of Martin Luther King Girls. A lawsuit brought by two girls in the team claims that their T-shirts in protest against that player were compared with swastikas, simply because they said “Save Girls Sports.”
The father of a girl who previously lost her spot from Varsity to the Transatleet Fox News Digital told That his daughter and other girls at the school were told “Transgender people have more rights than cisgender (s)” by school managers when they protested against the athlete’s participation.
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That is just one controversy in the state that has broken out in the past year because of its laws that make trans -inclusion in girl sports possible.
Stone Ridge Christian High School’s Girls Volleyball Team was planned to be confronted opposite San Francisco Waldorf in the Northern California Division 6 Tournament, but forfeited in an announcement just before the competition of a trans -athleteet in the team.
A transgender volleyball player was booed and harassed during a match of 12 October between Notre Dame Belmont in Belmont, California, against Half Moon Bay High School, according to ABC 7. Half Moon Bay scheduled the Transgenderatleet.
California State Assembly member Kate Sanchez announced on January 7 that she is introducing an account Verban Trans -Athletes From participating in girls and women’s sports.
Sanchez will introduce the Protect Girls’ Sports Act to the state legislator. Currently, 25 states have comparable laws in force.
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