For years, mothers and fathers across America watched their daughters lose races, podium spots, and scholarship opportunities to biological males competing in girls’ sports — and were told to sit down and be quiet about it. Grassroots advocates, female athletes, and common-sense parents refused to stay silent, and on Tuesday, the highest court in the land rewarded that courage with a resounding 6-3 ruling that states can protect women’s sports.
It was a landmark victory, the culmination of a movement that stretched from local school boards to the steps of the Supreme Court. Twenty-seven states have now enshrined protections for female athletes. The NCAA and the U.S. Olympic Committee have followed suit. The consensus is overwhelming, the science is settled, and the law has finally caught up. But one state thinks it knows better.
From Fox News:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office has responded after the U.S. Supreme Court made a historic ruling on trans athletes in women’s sports on Tuesday.
The court ruled 6-3 to uphold state laws that protect women’s sports from biological male trans athletes. California is one of 23 states in the country that don’t have laws to protect women’s sports, and since 2014, has had a law in place to protect the rights of males to compete against females.
Sacramento’s answer to the Supreme Court
Let that sink in. The Supreme Court of the United States issues a historic ruling affirming the right of states to protect women and girls, and Sacramento’s response is effectively: We don’t care.
A Newsom spokesperson told Fox News Digital, “The Supreme Court’s decision does not affect California’s laws. The state remains committed to ensuring every Californian, including the LGBTQ community, is met with dignity and respect.” His office then provided reporters a bulleted bragging list of the governor’s record on “protecting and expanding transgender rights” — as though the issue at hand weren’t the rights of girls being trampled.
Justice Kavanaugh, writing for the majority, could not have been clearer: “Women and girls should be allowed to compete for those life-changing opportunities on an equal playing field, without fear of physical injury from biological males.” California has chosen to ignore that standard entirely — and to boast about it.
Alliance Defending Freedom CEO Kristen Waggoner put the holdout states on notice: “Blue states with boys on girls’ podiums … you’re next.”
Girls pushed off the podium
This isn’t hypothetical in California. It’s happening right now. For the second consecutive year, prominent trans athlete AB Hernandez won two girls’ track-and-field state titles. When activists organized a protest near the competition grounds, Newsom’s office dismissed them as part of “the right wing’s cynical attempt to weaponize this debate as an excuse to vilify individual kids.”
The situation grew even more outrageous when the California Interscholastic Federation quietly re-implemented a pilot program, bumping every girl who finished behind Hernandez up one podium spot — resulting in the now-infamous imagery of a biological male sharing the podium with the second-place girls. It was an implicit admission that the arrangement is unfair, paired with an absolute refusal to fix it.
The Trump administration’s Department of Justice has since filed Title IX lawsuits against California education agencies over these very policies.
Even the governor knows better
Here’s the most galling part: Gavin Newsom agrees it’s unfair. On the late Charlie Kirk’s podcast in March 2025, Newsom called males competing in girls’ sports “deeply unfair.” Months later, on the Shawn Ryan Show, he admitted that “every parent” at his kids’ soccer games tells him the same thing — “progressively-minded people, not bigots” — and that they’re begging him to act.
So why hasn’t he? Because, as Newsom himself confessed, his allies in the LGBTQ caucus were “furious” with him for even acknowledging the problem. In Sacramento, the ideology of a political faction matters more than the futures of California’s daughters.
The Supreme Court has affirmed what every parent already knew: biology is real, fairness matters, and our girls deserve equal protection under the law. California can defy the Court. It can issue bragging lists and dismiss concerned parents as bigots. But it cannot defy reality forever — and the Department of Justice is making sure of it.
Key Takeaways
- The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that states can protect women’s sports from biological male athletes.
- California immediately declared the ruling won’t change its trans athlete policies.
- Girls in California are actively losing titles and podium spots to biological males.
- The Trump DOJ is suing California over Title IX violations tied to these policies.
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