Trump Threatens To Drop The Hammer On California If Man Keeps Winning Girls’ Sporting Event

President Donald Trump threatened to impose “large scale fines” on California early Tuesday morning after a transgender athlete competed in the California Girls State Finals.

AB Hernandez, a transgender junior from Jurupa Valley High School, won state titles in the girls’ triple jump and high jump and got second place in the girls’ long jump in the 2025 CIF State Track and Field Championships. (RELATED: Transgender Athlete Dominates Girls Sports, Reportedly Qualifies For California State Finals In Several Events)

In a previous Truth Social post, President Trump claimed that allowing biological men to play in women’s sports is “NOT FAIR, AND TOTALLY DEMEANING TO WOMEN AND GIRLS.” In the same post, Trump said he is “ordering local authorities, if necessary, to not allow the transitioned person to compete in the State Finals.”

Trump warned California Governor Gavin Newsom that “large scale Federal Funding will be held back, maybe permanently, if the Executive Order on this subject matter is not adhered to.”

In response to President Trump’s initial threat, the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) still allowed Hernandez to compete in the girls’ events, but established new rules that awarded Hernandez’s runner-up with a first place medal as well.

The State Championships’ crowd had mixed reactions.

“There’s no words to express how proud I am of her, despite her being targeted, harassed all these months,” Hernandez’s mother told The Los Angeles Times.

The LA Times also interviewed the protestors that were outside the event.

“I think it’s completely unfair to these girls,” one protester said. “They’ve worked hard. He has an advantage by being a male, and it’s really unfortunate that these girls, the psychological effect that it has on them and places on them, when they know they’re not only competing against people of their own sex, but now they gotta go up against a man.”

“I think it’s really bad that we’re setting this precedent,” he finished.

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon from the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice released a statement Monday claiming the CIF policy that allows male participation in girls’ interscholastic sports violates federal law.

Today at work… put 1600+ California schools on blast for violating equal protection in girls’ sports. ⚽️ Day is still young. pic.twitter.com/5M0TAK5pjF

— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) June 2, 2025

This policy, CIF Bylaw 300.D, knowingly deprives “female students of athletic opportunities and benefits on the basis of their sex,” thus violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

AAG Dhillon gave a deadline of June 9 for public school districts to certify in writing that they will not implement CIF Bylaw 300.D.