This past Saturday (May 10), California’s high school athletic integrity faced another blow as AB Hernandez, a male athlete identifying as female, advanced to the CIF Southern Section Finals in the high jump, long jump, and triple jump — displacing three girls in the process.
California Family Council Outreach Coordinator Sophia Lorey, a former collegiate athlete herself, organized a press conference prior to the semifinal event at Yorba Linda High School to highlight the real-life consequences of CIF’s policy. Flanked by female athletes and courageous community advocates, Lorey stated unequivocally: “This is not inclusion. This is not progress. This is erasure.”
Hernandez’s performance was dominant: he tied in the high jump with eight other girls with the top height, he placed 3rd in the long jump, and 1st in the triple jump—soaring more than four feet beyond the nearest female competitor. Only the top nine athletes in each event advanced, meaning three girls were bumped out of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to compete at the CIF Southern Section Finals. These athletes lost not just medals or rankings, but potentially scholarships, career momentum, and the hard-earned dignity of fair competition.
Among those speaking out were Reese Hogan and Olivia Viola—female athletes forced to compete against Hernandez.
“Men and women are biologically different. Period,” said Hogan. “Allowing a male to compete in a female sport is taking away opportunities from hardworking girls… CIF, step up and do what’s right and protect and save girls sports.”
Jessica Tapia, a former P.E. teacher fired for upholding her Christian convictions by refusing to let males into the girl’s locker room, pointed out the law CIF hides behind – AB 1266, the School Success and Opportunity Act — is “blatant cheating and, quite frankly, criminal.”
Dan and Kaitlyn Slavin, a father-daughter duo from King High School, are plaintiffs in a lawsuit against CIF’s policy. “It goes far beyond the track,” said Dan, “our daughters are missing out on experiences, not just medals….”
Who is Archbishop Hernandez? I can’t find anything about him?
He’s very athletic, apparently.
AB is the male athlete’s first name…..this is disgusting and going against President Trump’s mandate of no males in female sports. When will California ever grown up?
“When will California ever grown up?” You ask an appropriate question. What incredible narcissism this young man exhibits, and a moral confusion brought on by equally disoriented adults who encouraged him in this fantasy. An example would be our blessed Democratic legislators with their deliberate failure to confront this injustice– demonstrating in them a morally infantile mentality. The mature thinker must at the very least deal with reality rather than promote fantasy, and a destructive one at that.
Reply to Ave Regina: Unfortunately California will never grow up as long as they keep voting Democrat.
A male dressed as a female who can’t win against other males so shoves real females out of the way in order to win. The feminists’ hues and cries are stuck in their throats.
So is his name pronounced “ay-bee” or “ab”. What a dumb name. His problems started with his stupid name. Is he one of Elon Musk’s children with their strange names?
He should be called XY Hernandez. That’s what he is. The jokes write themselves.
Really puts the Him in Hernandez.
Final Nail in the Coffin of Sexism (and Age-ism):
All-Comers Competition: Let 40 lb elementary school girls compete against 285 lb college males (and vice versa). C’mon AB, now you’re just another no-name chump in the free-for-all.
Everyone knows he did not really win anything because he cheated.
And sooner or later cheaters get cheated, and no one cares. “Whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap.”
Of course there is one who truly cares about this man’s soul — God. It would be wonderful if he had a Zacchaeus Moment–repents of the evil he has done and seeks to make amends to those he has harmed. While there is life, there is hope.