The State of California, which seeks potentially hundreds of billions of dollars from the Trump administration, is also planning to defy President Donald Trump’s ban on men in women’s sports, among other presidential directives.
On Wednesday, as President Trump signed an executive order banning the participation of biological males in women’s sports, and directed the Secretary of Homeland Security to deny visas to transgender athletes, California sports institutions pushed back, saying that state law allowed participation according to chosen gender identity.
The San Francisco Chronicle noted:
The California Interscholastic Federation, the governing body for high school sports in the state, said that organization “provides students with the opportunity to belong, connect, and compete in education-based experiences in compliance with California law.” The state education…
