California mom speaks with compassion but brutal honesty about presence of trans athlete in daughter’s sport

AB Hernandez took the top score in the girls’ high jump at the 2026 CIF Southern Section Track & Field Masters Meet in Moorpark, California, on Saturday to earn a state qualification. (Credit: OutKick/ Fox News Digital)

Given how polarized the United States has become on just about every issue, it’s understandable that many people are often tricked into thinking that their positions must be absolute… all, or nothing.

You are either fully with something, or you’re against it. No in between.

The transgender movement seems to work a lot like that. Any dissent, any disagreement with any part of it can lead to instant accusations of transphobia, hate and bigotry.

AB Hernandez poses with the second- and third-place finishers and a co-champion after being named co-champion of the girls high jump at the 2026 CIF Southern Section Track & Field Masters Meet in Moorpark, Calif., on May 23, 2026. (OutKick/Fox News Digital)

Devoted California track mom Jennifer Oliver, while speaking to OutKick about the issue of biological males in women’s sports, bravely turned that notion on its head.

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Oliver may not like it that trans athlete AB Hernandez, a biological male from Jurupa Valley, prevented her daughter, Nieve Oliver, a sophomore from Camarillo, from earning the top spot on the podium in the high jump at the girls' high school state qualifying track meet on Saturday at Moorpark High School, northwest of Los Angeles.

But Oliver says that doesn’t mean that she also dislikes Hernandez, or the way Hernandez has chosen to do life. It also doesn't mean that she doesn't have compassion and empathy for Hernandez.

"There’s no hate,"