With varsity volleyball season underway in California, a Fox News story describes how Jurupa Valley High is watching other schools refuse to play its girls squad because a male player is on the team.
Riverside Poly High announced it is forfeiting an Aug. 15 match, and now Rim of the World High and Orange Vista High have forfeited games scheduled for Aug. 25 and Aug. 29 respectively.
At issue is A.B. Hernandez, a Jurupa High volleyball player who is male but says he’s female.
Beth Parlato is a senior legal advisor at Independent Women's Forum. She says the ongoing problem is the State of California, in particular its liberal politicians, who refuse to comply with the Trump administration and its traditional interpretation of Title IX federal law.
“So I commend the young girls and the teams that are forfeiting,” she says. “It's unfortunate that one male player who, quite honestly, is not doing the right thing."
The U.S. Dept. of Education filed suit in July to force California to comply with Title IX. That equal rights law, signed by President Nixon in 1972, bans discrimination against females in high school and college in academia and sports.
Despite the purpose of Title IX, which was supported by the feminist movement, the transgender-defending Biden administration planned to redefine the historic law to include men pretending to be women.
California’s liberal Democrats have taken a similar stance on transgender ideology, too, so Jurupa Valley High has said allowing Hernandez on the women’s team complies the state’s nondiscrimination law.
According to the Fox News story, the transgender athlete stirred up controversy last spring during track and field competitions. Hernandez won two state titles, in the high jump and the triple jump, for Jurupa Valley High.
According to Parlato, the issue of transgender athletes has made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The right-leaning high court has agreed to hear oral arguments in two related cases this fall.
“So hopefully, once and for all, the Supreme Court, the supreme law of the land,” Parlato says, “will make sure that men are not playing in girls' sports."
