There’s a new development in the story related to the upcoming California state high school track and field finals scheduled for this weekend, as the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) has issued a clarification of how their “pilot program” allowing female student-athletes whose medals and spots were taken by boys pretending to be girls to compete will work.
If you haven’t been following the story, a boy named AB Hernandez is currently the top-ranked girls’ triple jumper, and second-ranked girls’ long jumper, heading into the state finals. Back in February, a school board member from a district that competes with Hernandez’s school filed official complaints with the US Department of Education and the district itself and, assisted by other Mama Bears, embarked on a campaign to keep Hernandez from competing as a girl. After Hernandez placed in…
