Overview

• In an interview with The Dispatch on May 29, Gallego said parental concerns about fairness and safety in girls’ and women’s sports are legitimate
• He proposed that local entities such as school boards or athletic associations set eligibility rules and decide when sport-by-sport separation by birth sex is needed
• Gov. Gavin Newsom and Rep. Seth Moulton have also voiced fairness objections and expressed openness to limiting transgender participation
• The California Interscholastic Federation recently adjusted track-and-field rules to allow any biological female who lost to a transgender athlete to qualify for championships
• More than half of US states have laws restricting transgender athletes, though federal courts have blocked enforcement of several of those measures