On Tuesday, President Donald Trump posted a statement on Truth Social threatening to pull federal funding from California schools if a transgender student athlete is allowed to compete at this weekend’s state track and field championships. Shortly afterward, the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF), which oversees high school sports in the state, said in a statement that it was changing its qualifying policy to allow “biological girls” that did not qualify for the championship to compete.
The athlete President Trump is referring to is AB Hernandez, a 16-year-old trans girl who is expected to compete this weekend in the events for long jump, triple jump and high jump. CIF’s new policy does not prevent Hernandez from participating.
