President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to withhold federal funds from California over an unnamed transgender competitor’s victory in a high school athletic competition and purported to command the state’s scholastic athletic governing body to ban the athlete in question from an upcoming state championship competition.
Writing on Truth Social, Trump accused California Governor Gavin Newsom of having “illegally” allowed “men to play in women’s sports” and complained that an unidentified “transitioned male athlete at a major event” had “won ‘everything’” and qualified for “state finals” to be run next weekend.
