"Donald Trump had singled her out in his attacks on trans people without naming her, threatening to withhold federal funding from California schools if a "transitioned person" were allowed to compete in the track and field finals, and the Department of Justice followed up with demands for a trans athlete ban. California responded by suing the Trump administration, which has now pulled funding from at least one youth program. The administration has sued the state over trans inclusion as well."
""They swear I'm like this crazy danger to society," AB Hernandez recently told Los Angeles TV station KCAL. "I'm just a normal kid going to school, playing sports." Hernandez, a student at Jurupa Valley High School in Riverside County, about 60 miles east of L.A., won two gold medals and one silver at the state track and field finals, and she is on the Jurupa Valley girls' volleyball team this fall."
AB Hernandez, a Southern California transgender high school student, won two gold medals and a silver at the state track and field finals and plays on the Jurupa Valley girls' volleyball team. Political leaders and federal agencies targeted the athlete, with Donald Trump threatening to withhold federal funding and the Department of Justice seeking a trans athlete ban; the administration has pulled funding from at least one youth program and sued the state. Anti-trans protesters attended the finals, and several volleyball teams forfeited matches rather than compete. One nearby school did play Jurupa Valley, and Hernandez's mother expressed relief.
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