A female basketball team of the California High School will face a transgender athlete in a playoff game this weekend, despite the recent executive order of President Trump that prohibits Trans women competing in women's sports.
San Francisco Waldorf Henry Hanlon, who is a biological man, caused controversy last month after gathering a dominant 29 -point performance against a rival school.
And now, despite Trump's recent order, which applies to athletes in programs that receive federal funds, Cornerstone Christian will face a transgender player in a playoff game this weekend.
Fox News DigitalThat the news reported, he did not appoint Hanlon, but mentioned that the athlete also played volleyball, which is true for Hanlon.
“While the parents play the game, we will support the hard work of the girls this season and we will play the game,” said Athletic Christian Athletic director of Cornerstone, Madison Alexander, Fox News Digital.
Hanlon also played for the San Francisco Waldorf volleyball team in autumn, which led Stone Ridge Christian to lose a playoff contest in November.
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San Francisco Waldorf is a non -profit private school, although at least one school in the Central League of the Bay County League in which he plays, High School fishing, it is public. It is not clear if San Francisco Waldorf obtains federal funds.
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares previously cited the Virginia High School League, which is composed of private and public secondary schools, as an organization that would need to comply with the Trump order, According to ESPN.
In addition, the measure is not expected to affect many athletes at the university level, as the president of the NCAA, Charlie Baker, said in an audience in the December Congress that there were less than 10 trans athletes in the NCAA.
However, San Francisco Waldorf is not the only school in California that continues to allow trans athletes to participate.
According to Fox News Digital, the Department of Education and the Trump Civil Rights Office is currently investigating the California Interscollastic Federation for challenging its order.
'CIF establishes the parameters under which schools compete in these playoffs, and have the responsibility of beneficiaries of federal funds to meet Title IX. OCR's investigation on CIF continues, since it seems that CIF contempt for title IX continues, “said Candice Jackson, an attached lawyer of the DOE.
As California secondary schools continue to challenge Trump's order, California politicians have tried to take things in their own hands at the state level.
On Friday, the Essayli assembly ticket presented a bill that would require high school students, when they are on school lands, only play in teams that correspond to their biological sex.
TO The law has been in place In the state since 2014 that allows students, including university athletes, participating in sports based on their gender identity ',',Regardless of the gender that appears in the student's records.