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California school board meeting descends into emotional clash amid trans volleyball player controversy
Fox News ^ | 8/22/25 | Jackson Thompson

Posted on 08/23/2025 5:18:10 AM PDT by Libloather

A school board meeting in California descended into explosive debate after a girls' volleyball team forfeited to an opponent with a transgender player.

The players on the Riverside Poly High School girls' volleyball team chose to forfeit last Friday's game against Jurupa Valley High School. Multiple parents previously told Fox News Digital the forfeit was in response to the presence of trans athlete AB Hernandez on the Jurupa Valley team.

Local parents showed up to the Riverside Unified School District board meeting on Thursday to speak out in support of the girls who forfeited and against the school district for its current gender policies, while others spoke in support of trans athletes in girls' sports.

Hernandez's mother, Nereyda Hernandez, showed up to defend AB's right to play in girls' sports, and condemned board member Amanda Vickers for previously interviewing with Fox News Digital about the forfeit last week.

"Amanda Vickers, you interviewed with Fox. You actually entertained and welcomed harassment to my child. You are a board member. You have an oath to protect, to support all children, not just the ones that fit your ideas, your beliefs," Hernandez said.

"When you allow or tolerate targeted harassment, whether online, in person or allowing false narratives to be spread at board meetings, you are only failing morally."

"My daughter is not the problem. The problem is coordinated external efforts often led by individuals that travel from district to district… to spread fear and put parents against each other using religion as a shield for discrimination. This has nothing to do with fairness in sports and everything to do with erasing transgender children."

One mother, Maria Correo, spoke in support of the Riverside Poly players and condemned parents enabling male children to play in girls' sports.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Education; Sports
KEYWORDS: california; cheater; failedmaleathletes; intercession; school; trans; volleyball

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1 posted on 08/23/2025 5:18:10 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Refusing to play seems ok to me.


2 posted on 08/23/2025 5:35:44 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍! Winning currently!)
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To: Libloather
My daughter is not the problem.

Clearly, mental midget enabler, the problem starts with YOU!

3 posted on 08/23/2025 5:39:30 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Libloather

No, but she is a selfish nut job, which in CA is enough


4 posted on 08/23/2025 5:39:52 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: rktman

It’s the only way to end this insanity.


5 posted on 08/23/2025 5:43:16 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: Libloather

“My daughter is not the problem.“

No, the problem is you, the idiot woketard mother that encourages her mentally ill child’s delusion rather than seeking treatment.


6 posted on 08/23/2025 5:48:23 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Libloather

I’m suing Little League International for age discrimination. They refused to allow me to play in the local little league this summer due to my age.


7 posted on 08/23/2025 5:55:32 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Libloather

“””My daughter is not the problem.”””

Your “daughter” has a pecker. That is the problem.


8 posted on 08/23/2025 5:56:40 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Hot Tabasco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFE2uz71qTE


9 posted on 08/23/2025 6:01:36 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: rktman

One of these teams should field an all trans team and walk all over these sad teams that need a man to win. Don’t think it would take but once to convince the democrats that this strategy, what ever it is, doesn’t work.


10 posted on 08/23/2025 6:58:00 AM PDT by Ronald77
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To: Libloather

There is finally some resistance. Hard to believe it took this long.


11 posted on 08/23/2025 7:00:35 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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To: Libloather

Girls....talk to the football team. Recruit the entire team to be men wearing viking outfits to humiliate both schools leadership.


12 posted on 08/23/2025 7:02:39 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Libloather

Inject the gay agenda into volleyball is especially CRUEL to women as the nets are lower so dudes can easily BLAST the ball in the faces of (real) women at will.

...still doesn’t matter to the Left, as Feminists were their useful idiots in getting all of their goals met, and now have no value to them and thus they’re being discarded, exactly as they earlier did with blacks.


13 posted on 08/23/2025 7:16:21 AM PDT by BobL
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To: Libloather

The team that forfeited the game did the right thing, lest one of their players suffer severe injuries from being hit in the face by a spiked ball propelled by a man:

“In 2022, Payton McNabb, a high school volleyball player from North Carolina, suffered severe injuries when a transgender opponent spiked a ball that struck her in the face during a match.

The impact caused a concussion, brain bleed, neck injury, partial paralysis on her right side, impaired vision, and ongoing cognitive difficulties such as memory loss and confusion.”

Yet there are morons who support men playing in girls sports.


14 posted on 08/23/2025 8:09:12 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolutioan?)
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To: Libloather

I played volleyball in high school and college. Even at 16 I would have destroyed the best college woman player.


15 posted on 08/23/2025 9:04:42 AM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower. )
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To: Organic Panic

I wrote a tagline for this situation (apologies to Ted Nugent).


16 posted on 08/23/2025 10:17:32 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (When in doubt I whip it out. Got on the girl's volleyball team it's a Free-for-All!)
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