Overview

• President Trump posted on Truth Social that “large scale federal funding will be held back, maybe permanently” if California allowed a transgender athlete to compete in the girls’ state championships.
• The California Interscholastic Federation unveiled a pilot entry process granting additional spots to cisgender girls who narrowly missed automatic qualifying marks.
• AB Hernandez, a junior at Jurupa Valley High School, remains eligible to compete in the long jump, triple jump and high jump events this weekend.
• The Department of Education has opened a Title IX investigation into CIF’s policy after Trump’s February executive order directed enforcement against schools defying the transgender sports ban.
• Governor Gavin Newsom praised the pilot entry as a model for balancing lawful nondiscrimination with competitive fairness despite his earlier remark that transgender inclusion is “deeply unfair.”