Christian girls' basketball team to face trans athlete in playoff game...

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Christian girls' basketball team to face trans athlete in playoff game as California defies Trump's order

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/christian-girls-basketball-team-to-face-trans-athlete-in-playoff-game-as-california-defies-trump-s-order/ar-AA1zk0zn?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=9ef95ca9466b43cad92ff74c18d3e8ac&ei=148

Story by Jackson Thompson (18 Feb 2025)

As California continues to defy President Donald Trump's recent executive order forbidding trans athletes from competing in girls' sports, the state's residents will see the ramifications of that decision play out on a basketball court this week.

An upcoming high school girls' basketball playoff game will feature an openly transgender athlete playing for San Francisco Waldorf against Cornerstone Christian on Saturday. The same trans athlete played for Waldorf's girls' volleyball team this past fall, prompting Stone Ridge Christian to forfeit a playoff match on Nov. 16.

"As long as the parents are on board with playing the game, we will support the girls' hard work this season and play the game," Cornerstone Christian athletic director Madison Alexander told Fox News Digital.

The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) is currently under investigation by Trump's Department of Education (DOE) and Office of Civil Rights (OCR) for its defiance in following the president's executive order as it continues to instruct schools to allow trans athletes to compete as women.

A law called AB 1266 has been in effect since 2014 and gives California students at scholastic and collegiate levels the right to "participate in sex-segregated school programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, and use facilities consistent with his or her gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on the pupil's records."