California girls' track and field stars speak out as Gavin Newsom's Title IX crisis grows

Girls sports advocates discuss how fairness can be applied to competitions on ‘Fox News @ Night.’

Reese Hogan would have a very different set of medals if the rules were different in California.

It's her third straight year competing against a trans athlete in the California girls' track and field state tournament. She would have taken first place in the high jump all to herself in the sectional preliminaries last Saturday, if only biological females were allowed to compete.

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Now she'll compete against a trans athlete in the sectional finals this weekend, representing her Christian high school, Crean Lutheran. It will mark one year since she went viral on social media for stepping up from the second-place spot on a medal podium up to first place, after a trans athlete who took first place stepped off.

"This is my third year competing against a transgender athlete, and last year I was stripped away of a CIF Title, and I basically worked my whole career to get to that point," Hogan said on "Fox News at Night" on Tuesday. "It's just really dissapointing to go into a competition knowing you already lost."

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Her Crean Lutheran teammate, Olivia Viola, has been right there with Hogan throughout the three years of competition against trans athletes.

"I haven't heard nearly enough adults come out and say anything. A lot of them like to say that they agree with you, that they're proud of you for speaking up now, but they won't do it themselves," Viola said. "Just because it doesn't affect every adult out there doesn't mean it's not worth standing up for."

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