(31 May 2025)
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Clovis, California – 30 May 2025
1. Wide of Veterans Memorial Stadium, banner on the background reading (English) "Welcome to the CIF State Championships"
2. Various of AB Hernandez during a meeting with other athletes in the stadium
3. Wide of protesters holding signs reading (English) "Save Girls Sports"
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Diana Murphy, protester:
"I’m here to save my daughter’s future."
5. Sign on a post reading (English) "Gooo Girls Honor Title IX," protesters holding signs in background
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Diana Murphy, protester:
"Because they’re trying to set a precedent. They’re trying to push us aside like they always do to women. Please, women sit down, you’re second rate citizens. We’re not going back. We’re not doing that anymore."
7. Close of sign on a post reading (English) "Gooo Girls Honor Title IX,"
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Diana Murphy, protester:
"We’re not doing this anymore. We’re not doing it. We have the law behind us just because California doesn’t want the politicians don’t want to get on board. That doesn’t matter. We’re not doing this anymore."
9. Protesters holding signs reading (English) "Save Girls Sports"
STORYLINE:
California’s high school track-and-field state finals will award one extra medal Saturday in events where a transgender athlete places in the top three, a rule change that may be the first of its kind nationally by a high school sports governing body.
The two-day championship kicked off in the sweltering heat at high school near Fresno. The atmosphere was relatively quiet Friday despite critics — including parents, conservative activists and President Donald Trump — calling for Hernandez to be barred from girls competition leading up to the meet.
A group of fewer than 10 people gathered outside the stadium ahead of the meet on Friday to protest Hernandez’s participation.
Some of them wore “Save Girls’ Sports” T-shirts. At one point as Hernandez was attempting a high jump, someone in the stands yelled an insult. An aircraft circled above the stadium for more than an hour during the events, carrying a banner that read, “No Boys in Girls’ Sports!”
The new California Interscholastic Federation policy was written in response to the success of high school junior AB Hernandez, a trans student who competes in the girls high jump, long jump and triple jump. She led in all three events after preliminaries Friday. The CIF said earlier this week it would let an additional student compete and medal in the events where Hernandez qualified.
The rest of the night Friday ran smoothly for Hernandez, who finished the triple jump with a mark close to 41 feet (13 meters), nearly 10 inches (25 centimeters) ahead of her closest competitor, San Francisco Bay Area junior Kira Gant Hatcher.
Hernandez also led in the long jump with a mark close to 20 feet (6 meters) to advance to the final. She advanced in the high jump, clearing 5 feet, 5 inches (1.7 meters) with ease.
She did not address the press.
AP video shot by Jae Hong
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