California girl athletes to rally at sports league meeting to fight trans athlete law after track season chaos
Taylor and Ryan Starling of Riverside, California, discussed their ongoing lawsuit over trans inclusion in girls sports.
California girls, their families and other activists will march to the meeting of the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) in Costa Mesa on Friday to protest the state's laws that allow biologically male trans athletes to compete in girls' sports.
The protest was organized by the California Family Council, which announced the rally in a press release Thursday. Multiple female athletes will speak at a press conference at the event, including Taylor Starling, Kaitlyn Slavin and Celeste Duyst.
Starling and Slavin are engaged in a lawsuit against their school district, the Riverside Unified School District, after a trans athlete took Starling's varsity cross-country spot last fall, and they allege school administrators compared their "Save Girls Sports" T-shirts to swastikas.
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California high school athlete Taylor Starling (Courtesy of Taylor Starling)
Duyst went viral for a speech she gave at a Lucia Mar Unified School District board meeting in April, where she cried while recounting having to share a locker room with a trans athlete before track practice.
"This is about justice," California Family Council Outreach Director Sophia Lorey said in the press release. "Girls across California are being sidelined by policies that ignore biological reality. CIF must answer for that."
The rally will come weeks after the state was rocked by the presence of a trans athlete at the CIF track and field championships, where Jurupa Valley High School's transgender student AB Hernandez took first place in the high jump and triple jump.
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