Girl Athletes Express Fear Over School District Switching Sports Conferences To Accommodate Trans Athletes

A nationalist schoolhouse territory is successful nan process of transferring from Nevada's precocious schoolhouse sports convention to California's truthful it tin debar Nevada's caller argumentation that keeps biologic males retired of precocious schoolhouse girls' competitions and locker rooms.

The Tahoe Truckee Unified School District (TTUSD) successful Truckee, California, is leaving nan Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA) to subordinate nan California Interscholastic Federation (CIF). 

The alteration will spell into effect successful Fall 2025 and comes aft nan NIAA voted to prohibition trans athletes from nan girls' class during its April 2 Board of Control meeting. It was made successful bid to comply pinch President Donald Trump's "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" executive order. However, California has continued to defy nan bid and alteration trans inclusion successful girls' sports.

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Multiple TTUSD parents and girls' athletes pleaded pinch schoolhouse officials not to make nan move to California's federation astatine nan Truckee Unified schoolhouse committee gathering Wednesday night. 

Not only did they speak retired nan conception of letting trans athletes successful girls' sports, but galore speakers besides pointed retired that different specifications of nan move would impact nan district's sports teams' expertise to behaviour their seasons, including recreation and scheduling changes that would bring astir imaginable upwind complications for outdoor events. 

The existent setup pinch Truckee competing successful nan NIAA allows its teams to recreation eastbound into Nevada for astir of its distant competition, arsenic nan municipality sits adjacent nan bluish California-Nevada border. But pinch nan coming change, nan student athletes could soon person to recreation westbound for astir of their distant competition. 

This intends that students will often person to recreation done California's Donner Pass, a 7,056-foot-high upland pass. During winter, nan walk is known for being vulnerable owed to utmost upwind conditions for illustration dense snowfall, beardown winds and icy roads. The precocious elevation and predominant storms lend to treacherous recreation conditions, including nan imaginable for avalanches. 

A schoolhouse autobus astatine Truckee Historic Downtown during snowfall successful Truckee, California, connected December 13, 2024.  (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Truckee precocious schoolhouse girls' way and section jock Ava Cochram expressed her fears of playing against trans athletes. 

"Men mostly person much musculus mass, higher lung capacity and greater bony density that gives them greater advantages, physically, successful sports, and I deliberation that it's very unfair to watch each of our difficult activity arsenic women to spell down nan drain," Cochram said. "I do not person thing against trans people, but I deliberation this is simply a usurpation of our privacy." 

Truckee High School girls' soccer, way and hoops jock Kenzie Zilstorf lamented nan thought of changing pinch trans athletes successful nan aforesaid locker room, and having to summation nan consequence of recreation pinch nan change. 

"It's moreover much bad if a female has to spell successful nan locker room pinch a man and alteration pinch them. There's 2 genders, a man and a woman," Zilstorf said. "And I deliberation it's unfair that we person to return a vulnerable thrust to consequence our lives complete nan acme erstwhile there's snow, each because of a privateness rule. This is wrong." 

North Tahoe High School girls' shot subordinate Anna Holly said she isn't moreover going to beryllium playing girls' shot anymore because of nan change. 

"It's sad for me, because this is nan only clip I get to play shot successful my life, and I really do bask it, but I'm choosing hoops complete that," Holly said. "And biologically, boys are calved pinch greater velocity and spot than girls, and having to play against them, they do person an unfair advantage, and I would not consciousness safe pinch them. There's besides information concerns astir really overmuch stronger they are than us." 

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TTUSD still defended its determination to move to CIF successful a connection provided to Fox News Digital.

"A caller Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA) argumentation alteration made connected April 2, 2025, straight conflicts pinch California authorities law, specifically nan California Education Code’s instruction against favoritism and protection of student privacy. Given nan nonstop conflict betwixt nan NIAA's caller argumentation changes and nan mandates of California authorities law, TTUSD viewed joining a California athletics relation arsenic a basal action to guarantee ineligible compliance," publication a connection from nan TTUSD to Fox News Digital. 

TTUSD besides said it anticipates nan caller arrangements will lead to shorter recreation times for its student athletes for distant competitions, contempt concerns complete nan Donner Pass. 

"TTUSD is moving pinch CIF connected specifications related to convention assignment, schedules, and recreation distances. We expect that nan wide mileage student-athletes recreation wrong nan CIF will beryllium little than our existent recreation schedules," nan district's connection read. 

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Tahoe Truckee High School successful Truckee, California, July 4, 2024. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

CIF is 1 of galore precocious schoolhouse sports conferences located successful bluish states to defy Trump's executive bid since it was signed connected Feb. 5. 

It is presently nether investigation by nan U.S. Department of Education for its defiance of nan order, and Education Secretary Linda McMahon has warned Governor Gavin Newsom that his authorities could beryllium taxable to national backing freezes if it continues to defy. 

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