California school board votes to ban trans athletes from girls' sports amid state's lawsuit with Trump

Education Secretary Linda McMahon joins ‘America’s Newsroom’ to discuss the Justice Department’s lawsuit against California over alleged Title IX violations tied to transgender athletes competing in women’s sports.

A school board in California voted to defy state policy and ban trans athletes from girls' sports Tuesday. 

The Kern County Board of Education approved a resolution to comply with the federal definition of Title IX.

The vote comes amid a feud and lawsuit between the state and President Donald Trump's administration over the issue of males competing in girls' sports. Now, at least one school board has opted to side with Trump over the state authorities that have rigorously committed to keeping males in girls' sports this year.

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Trump signed an executive order to ban males from girls' and women's sports nationally back in February, but California was one of the first states to publicly defy the order. The defiance enabled multiple incidents of trans athletes competing in high school girls' basketball, cross-country and track and field in 2025, as California schools were made to continue following the state law that has protected trans inclusion in sports dating back to 2014.

The issue came to a head during the spring high school track and field postseason, when transgender athlete AB Hernandez of Jurupa Valley High School made a run for two girls' state titles. 

In May, three of the state's esteemed Christian high schools sent a letter to the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) challenging its longstanding policy that allows biological males in girls' sports. Many residents, girls' athletes and even entire educational institutions protested the trans