California’s largest high school district has adopted a resolution that would ban transgender athletes from playing in girls’ sports.
The Kern High School District, serving around 40,000 students in Bakersfield, recently voted 3-2 in favor of a resolution to align with the Trump administration’s Title IX rules. These rules prohibit males who identify as females from participating in female sports.
But the resolution also puts the district at odds with the state’s far-left Democrat-led legislature and radical Governor Gavin Newsom.
Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Education President Sonja Shaw wrote the resolution.
As reported by Fox News, Shaw stated, “I proposed this resolution to represent our communities — to support our girls and uphold the truth that should never have been ignored. Boys are boys. Girls are girls. They are beautifully made just as they are. It’s time to reintegrate fairness, truth, and common sense into education.”
Shaw’s district also passed such a resolution.
Chino and Kern are among many California schools that are adopting similar resolutions. So far, 14 additional school districts — totaling 16 — have implemented measures to prevent transgender athletes from competing in accordance with Trump’s Title IX directives.
These districts are taking action contrary to a state law enacted in 2013, which permits transgender athletes to choose the gender category under which they wish to compete.
The revolt against transgender athletes is growing in the far-left state.
In recent developments, eight girls’ high school volleyball teams have opted out of competing against Jurupa Valley High, a school permitting a transgender player to participate in its girls’ team.
Transgender athlete AB Hernandez of Jurupa Valley exits the track during the CIF State Track and Field Championships at Veterans Memorial Stadium on May 30, 2025, in Clovis, California. (Kirby Lee/Getty Images)
Several girls have filed a lawsuit against the district and the state.
Three girls, two Catholics and one Muslim, have also filed a lawsuit against Jurupa Unified School District (JUSD), the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF), and the California Department of Education (CDE), alleging that they were offended and their religious principles defiled when a boy was allowed to use the girls’ locker room.
Two of the girls, Alyssa McPherson and Hadeel Hazameh, said they left the team over their religious objections and discomfort for having a boy roam around in the girls’ locker room.
“Plaintiffs have been intimidated by an intentionally hostile environment created by Defendants wherein they were bullied by school officials to censor their objections to competing with, and against, a male and to sharing intimate and private spaces with a male,” the lawsuit says.
“Their faith emphasizes modesty, dignity, and the honoring of gender distinctions which must conform with one’s biological sex in both practice and identity,” the lawsuit adds.
California’s radical, left-wing Governor Gavin Newsom has refused to take any responsibility for the issue and, in response to the boycotts, claimed he didn’t make the trans rule and said that if the state legislature wanted to change it, they could. However, he did not say if he’d sign such a bill, and since he has supported trans ideology in schools, it is highly doubtful he would sign a subsequent ban on trans athletes.
