Posted on 04/05/2025 7:48:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
California state lawmakers have rejected a change to state policies that would have required male student athletes identifying as transgender to compete on sports teams consistent with their sex.
On April 1, Democratic lawmakers on the state Assembly’s Committee on Arts, Entertainment, Sports and Tourism rejected two bills introduced by Republican lawmakers—AB 89 and AB 844. Democrats hold a supermajority on the committee.
AB 89 would have required the California Interscholastic Federation, which governs high school sports, to follow rules banning male students from playing on girls’ sports teams at school.
AB 844 would have effectively repealed the 2013 California School Success and Opportunity Act, which permits students to play in sex-segregated school programs, including on sports teams, as well as use bathrooms and other facilities based on their gender identity. The bill would have applied to K-12 and college students.
Democratic Assemblyman Chris Ward, the committee chair and leader of the legislative LGBTQ+ caucus, alleged the bills to be part of an attack on transgender youth.
“Let’s be clear—this isn’t about fairness,” he stated in a post on Instagram.
“It’s about fear and exclusion, and I won’t stand for it.”
“Targeting trans athletes doesn’t protect anyone—it harms all girls,” said Ward, who represents large parts of San Diego.
“This must stop.”
Republican Assemblyman Bill Essayli, author of AB 844, said the measure would restore fairness to women’s sports.
“California will come into compliance with Title IX either through the legislative process or the court process,” Essayli said during the hearing on Tuesday. “Title IX was passed to protect sex-based sports, to protect girls so they could have their own teams, so they can compete and be champions.”
Essayli said that even one woman disenfranchised due to current state law is too many.
“You’re taking rights away from women,” Essayli said.
Cross country athlete Taylor Starling testified at the hearing that a biological male identifying as a female took her varsity cross-country spot. She had been co-captain of the team.
“After having my spot taken away from me that I earned, I missed out on running with my varsity team in one of the top cross-country invitationals of the season,” Starling said. “My Title IX and free speech rights as a female matter too. Why are girls being told that we must sit down and be quiet while boys unfairly get ahead of us in life?”
Essayli took to social media to condemn Assembly Democrats for continuing what he perceives as a war against women’s rights.
The Corona lawmaker said that most Californians want to keep transgender females out of girls’ sports.
“Assembly Democrats are radically out of touch with common-sense Californians, and the voters will hold them accountable to restore justice and fairness in girls sports,” he said in a statement.
According to a recent Pew Research Center poll, 66 percent of Americans think that transgender athletes should play in sports based on their birth sex.
“Our young women are being forced to undress in locker rooms with boys,” Assemblyman and Republican leader James Gallagher of Chico said at the press conference after the vote.
“It’s an absurd result of flawed policy.”
Republican Assemblywoman Kate Sanchez of Rancho Santa Margarita wanted to make it clear in the press conference that the bill targeted CIF competitive high school sports.
“We stood for all high school athletic females. They deserve a safe space. They deserve to be protected,” she said.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, made headlines in March when he said on his podcast that he believes allowing transgender-identifying male athletes to participate in girls’ sports is unfair.
Later Tuesday, Essayli resigned from the Assembly to accept President Donald Trump’s appointment as interim U.S. attorney for the Central District of California.
This is absurd.............
What does anyone expect from Democrats anywhere?
This is the hill Demoncrats will die on….
All female athletes should take a knee and refuse to participate when a male tranz is competing. Combat this with overwhelming protest.
The women are going to take the matter in hand and refuse to participate when men are allowed in the contest.
FAFO.
Amen!
It’s absurd, but it’s also absurd as an issue.
Compared to commanding lies to come out of your mouth, and in front of your children, no less, to what happens to games played by girls is as nothing.
“”California Lawmakers Reject Bills To Ban Males From Female Sports””
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How about we just ban California from the US?
OK, OK, just parts of California...
But something has to change and it may as well be the biggest troublemaker, so out they should go.
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It’s only a matter of time until some girl is killed by a mental case trans person in a game.
Already one girl has been partially paralyzed playing volleyball by a thug that thinks he’s a woman............
I wonder how many MAGA lefties are being created by this issue?
So no more federal money, right?
Yes, I know it’s a bad idea for female athletes to play against men. No question about it.
But by focusing on this as an issue, while accepting the underlying premise - that men can become women, or, at least, that you must shut up about it and when you can’t, you must lie in public and in front of your children or be charged with “hate speech” if not an actual crime - you are giving away the store.
Cut the taxpayer dollars from California. They aren’t a U.S. State anymore. They are a sexual deviant colony.
Yes…
Hehehe probably
Let’s try soaking their
brains in the Word of God too
SHARE THE WORD OF ALMIGHTY GOD
✝️✝️✝️🙏🙏🙏🛐🛐🛐
Romans 1:24-28
Evangelical Heritage Version
24 So, as they followed the sinful desires of their hearts, God handed them over to the impurity of degrading their own bodies among themselves.
25 Such people have traded the truth about God for the lie, worshipping and serving the creation rather than the Creator, who is worthy of praise forever. Amen.
26 For this reason God handed them over to disgraceful passions. Even their females exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.
27 And, in the same way, their males, after abandoning natural sexual relations with females, were consumed by their lust for one another. Males perform indecent acts with males and receive in themselves the penalty that is fitting for their perversion.
28 And since they did not consider it worthwhile to hold on to the true knowledge of God, God handed them over to a corrupted mind to do things that should never be done.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+1%3A24-28&version=EHV
Romans 1:32
English Standard Version
32 Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%201%3A32&version=ESV
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