California Girls Watch State Championship Dreams Vanish as Biological Male Sweeps Podium Again

Clear Facts

• Transgender athlete AB Hernandez swept three events at California’s Masters Meet, winning first place in long jump, triple jump, and high jump
• Hernandez will compete at state championships for the second consecutive year, having won two state titles in 2025
• Under CIF rules, Hernandez must share the podium with the highest-placing biological female, a policy critics call a ‘public humiliation ritual’
• California continues to defy President Trump’s executive order barring biological males from women’s sports

Senior Reese Hogan of Crean Lutheran buried her head in her father’s chest after her final jump. Her dream of competing in the high jump at California’s state championship meet had just ended.

Meanwhile, her frequent rival AB Hernandez — a biological male competing in girls’ track — stood atop three different podiums Saturday and qualified for state in all three events.

“It’s an outlier,” transgender activists claim. They insist biological males dominating girls’ sports “hardly ever happens.” Tell that to Hogan and the other California high school girls watching their opportunities vanish.

At Saturday’s Masters Meet at Moorpark High School, Hernandez, a 5-foot-9, 120-pound senior from Jurupa Valley High School, took first place in long jump (20-feet-0.75), first place in triple jump (40-feet-7), and first place in high jump (5-foot-8).

This marks the second consecutive year Hernandez will compete at the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) state championship. Last year, Hernandez captured two state titles — high jump (5-foot-7) and triple jump (42-02.75) — while finishing just short in long jump.

Next weekend at Buchanan High School in Clovis, Hernandez will be favored in all three events and could challenge state records. The California all-time triple jump mark stands at 45-04.25, set by KeNyia Richardson in 2007. Hernandez came within two inches of that record last year.

“This is all a farce,” a retired California high school track official told Fox News Digital/OutKick while watching the competition.

“It’s like coming up with a language to describe all of this and no matter how nonsensical it is, you make it the truth.”

The absurdity reaches its peak during awards ceremonies. Thanks to a CIF rule implemented this season, Hernandez must physically share the top spot on the podium with the next highest-placing biological female, standing side by side — a quiet acknowledgment of the problematic nature of these circumstances.

Riley Gaines, host of the “Riley Gaines Show” on Fox News, called out this spectacle on X:

“If you have to create a shared podium for the boy competing in the girls’ event, you’ve already admitted you know he isn’t a girl and that his participation is unfair. At that point, you’re just seeking a public humiliation ritual for the girls.”

Throughout Saturday’s competition, parents and fans clapped politely for all competitors, including Hernandez, showing respect for the athletes’ efforts. But during the podium celebrations for high jump and triple jump, loud boos erupted from the crowd.

“I mean, this is a male competing against women,” the former track official said. “To even have a debate on this is a non-starter, unless you are pushing an agenda. It’s just not right.”

One mother at the high jump competition put it simply: “I have a son, and I would never let my son compete against my daughter. Especially in a sport that’s already been decided is an all-girls sport.”

These aren’t mean-spirited comments from unempathetic people. These are competitive athletes and their families seeking a level playing field. These girls have dreams too.

Hernandez’s mother, Nereyda Hernandez, told the Los Angeles Times she believes her child is being used as a political pawn.

“I told AB, this is a [midterm] election year. They’re gonna hit us hard, because they’re using us for their campaigns.”

But the issue isn’t political strategy — it’s basic fairness and biology. California Governor Gavin Newsom has made clear where he stands, with his office releasing a statement defending the state’s 2013 law allowing students to compete “consistent with their gender identity.”

“The Governor has said discussions on this issue should be guided by fairness, dignity, and respect. He rejects the right wing’s cynical attempt to weaponize this debate as an excuse to vilify individual kids,” Newsom’s office stated.

In February 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Keeping Men Out Of Women’s Sports,” surrounded by women and girls.

“It is the policy of the United States to rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, which results in the endangerment, humiliation, and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy,” the order read.

The directive establishes government-wide policies interpreting “sex” as the gender assigned at birth. It mandates federal agencies to strictly enforce Title IX and threatens to pull federal education and athletic funding from schools that allow transgender women to compete on female teams.

California has openly defied that order. And as has been the case all season, Hernandez continues to compete. And win.

Three more state championships in girls’ sports are within reach next weekend — while girls like Reese Hogan watch from the sidelines, their own championship dreams deferred by a system that prioritizes ideology over fairness.

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