For more than fifty years, Title IX promised American daughters something simple: a fair shot. Girls who woke up before dawn to train, who pushed through injuries and sacrificed their weekends, were guaranteed honest competition. Not charity. Not a pat on the head. Generations of families trusted that promise. It was never supposed to need defending.
But somewhere along the way, the institutions charged with protecting women’s athletics decided biology was up for debate. The feelings of a select few now outweigh the rights of every girl on the field. What happened at a California high school track championship this past weekend didn’t just bend that promise. It snapped it in half — in front of two thousand people.
At the California Interscholastic Federation’s Southern Section championships over the weekend, 17-year-old transgender student AB Hernandez captured first place in the girls’ long jump, high jump, and triple jump events. The Jurupa Valley High School senior received backlash for competing in the girls’ division from both athletes and those online.
Under a pilot program adopted in 2025, the female athletes who would have come in first place were it not for Hernandez were also awarded gold medals. XX-XY Athletics, founded by Jennifer Sey and a supporter of women’s sports, released a video mocking the move.
Introducing Podi-him. pic.twitter.com/CSUGr1RdNa
— XX-XY Athletics (@xx_xyathletics) May 18, 2026
So California’s answer to a biological male sweeping girls’ championships is handing out duplicate gold medals. Let that sink in for a moment. Fortunately, not everyone responded with bureaucratic cowardice.
A company with a backbone
In a corporate landscape where most brands would sooner light money on fire than state the obvious, XX-XY Athletics chose a different path entirely. The athletic brand — founded by Jennifer Sey, a former Levi’s executive who walked away from a lucrative career rather than compromise her principles — released a satirical video introducing “Podi-him.” It’s a mock product featuring a first-place podium “wide enough for a deserving female and an undeserving male.”
The video dismantled every layer of the charade. A track official boasts that he no longer has to have “awkward conversations” while “girls take the L.” Then a parent in the stands delivers the real dagger: “Podi-him teaches my girls that protecting boys’ feelings is more important than fairness.” You genuinely cannot parody something that’s already this ridiculous — but XX-XY Athletics found a way.
That’s what happens when a company is built on conviction instead of focus groups.
The girls who stood their ground
Behind the satire are real teenagers whose work got erased in real time. Hernandez posted a long jump of 20 feet, 4.75 inches — comfortably ahead of Moorpark’s Gianna Gonzalez at just over 19 feet. In the high jump, Hernandez cleared 5-foot-8, two full inches above Oak Park’s Gwynneth Mureika. The triple jump wasn’t close either: 41 feet, 7 inches versus Shadow Hills’ Malia Strange at 39 feet, 4 inches.
But here’s what the administrators at CIF apparently didn’t anticipate. The girls pushed back. Strange flat-out refused to share the podium during the triple jump ceremony. Other competitors kept visible distance. These young women had no institutional backing and no corporate megaphone — yet they did what every suit in the CIF boardroom was too spineless to do. They said no.
“Psychological abuse on full display”
Riley Gaines, the former University of Kentucky swimmer who became a national voice after competing against biological male Lia Thomas, went straight at it on Fox News. “You are minimizing their accomplishments, you are asking them to stand aside, to smile, to applaud the boy, to deny reality, and pretend that it’s all okay,” Gaines said. “What is that? It is psychological abuse on full display.”
Hard to argue with that. The CIF’s own dual-medal scheme is a confession wearing a lab coat. If girls need a separate gold medal because competition integrity was compromised, then — stay with me here — competition integrity was compromised. The CIF’s language about helping students “belong, connect, and compete” is the kind of corporate drivel that means absolutely nothing to a seventeen-year-old girl watching her first-place finish get handed to someone else.
Rep. Nancy Mace said it plainly: “PROTECT GIRLS SPORTS.” Nearly two thousand spectators at the meet voiced open outrage. Even Hernandez’s own mother criticized the dual-medal policy — though from the opposite direction, calling it an attack on her child. When your grand compromise manages to infuriate literally everyone, that’s not diplomacy. That’s institutional failure.
Courage over compliance
Companies like XX-XY Athletics are demonstrating that defending truth isn’t just principled — it’s necessary. Jennifer Sey built a brand on the radical idea that women’s sports belong to women. Meanwhile, the teenage girls who quietly declined to perform gratitude on a shared podium showed more spine than every official who engineered this scheme. American families didn’t spend decades fighting for Title IX so their daughters could receive participation ribbons on a widened platform. They fought so their girls could earn a victory — and actually keep it.
Key Takeaways
- California’s dual-medal policy is a tacit admission that trans athletes in girls’ sports creates unfair competition.
- XX-XY Athletics used sharp satire to expose what institutions refuse to say out loud.
- Female competitors demonstrated real courage by refusing to share the podium.
- Riley Gaines called the forced shared-podium arrangement “psychological abuse” of young women.
Sources: The Post Millennial, California Post
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