California school district trustee opens up on leading resolution to oppose trans athletes in girls' sports

Kern High School District trustee Derek Tisinger spoke with Fox News Digital about why his district recently passed a resolution to oppose California state policy on trans athletes in girls' sports.

The largest high school district in California is the latest in the state to pass a resolution calling for the protection of girls' sports from trans athletes, opposing current state law. The resolution, which passed this week, came weeks after a controversial incident involving a girls' volleyball game.

Kern High School District (KHSD) trustee Derrek Tisinger told Fox News Digital that he and his colleagues had to witness a Christian school forfeit to one of the schools in its district over a trans athlete last month. 

Bakersfield Christian forfeited its freshman/sophomore game to Ridgeview High School in the final week of September, with the explanation that "As a school grounded in the authority of Scripture, we affirm the biblical view that sex is determined by God at conception."

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For Tisinger and many of his colleagues, witnessing this was difficult. 

"People try to say, ‘hey, it only affects a small amount of people,’ but there were probably 30 girls that practiced and dreamed their whole life about playing volleyball, and they didn't get to play," Tisinger said. 

"To sit here and talk about this, it's almost ridiculous." 

Tisinger also has sympathy for the trans athlete in his district at the center of the situation. 

"This young man, he has every opportunity to play in any sport, men's sport, he can play golf, tennis, he can do whatever he wants to do, but I don't believe that he has the right to come in and displace a girl on a team and take her playing ability