California girls’ basketball team trounced in playoff game without transgender player 

A girls’ high school basketball team was without its best player in the playoffs and it lost badly. 

San Francisco Waldorf School was without star player Henry Hanlon, a transgender-identifying athlete, in its game Saturday against Cornerstone Christian, a private school from Sacramento. 

Without its leading scorer, Waldorf lost 56-30, ending its season, the New York Post reports. 

The school went 9-9 this season, with Hanlon averaging 20.2 points per game. The second-highest scorer had less than seven points per game. Over the last two seasons, Hanlon even outscored the entire opposing team on four occasions. 

The same day Waldorf lost its playoff game, a transgender-identifying athlete excelled in a California girls’ outdoor track and field meet. 

Jurupa Valley junior AB Hernandez, a male, had first-place finishes in the high jump (4 feet, 10 inches), long jump (17 feet, 6 inches) and triple jump (40 feet, 0.5 inches) at the Ontario Relays. That triple jump performance was eight feet further than the runner-up. 

Hernandez finished third in the triple jump behind two seniors at last year’s outdoor track state championship meet, putting the athlete in position to possibly win a title either this year or in coming seasons. 

Maine Governor resists Trump

Meanwhile, in Maine, as Gov. Janet Mills fights President Donald Trump over transgender athletes, another male had a strong performance – in girls’ Nordic Skiing. 

Maine Coast Waldorf junior Soren Stark-Chessa took third-place finishes in the girls’ freestyle (16:52.9) and girls’ pursuit (36:20.9) events at the Maine Principals Association Class C state championship meet last week. 

Stark-Chessa won a Maine Principals Association Class C state championship in girls’ track and field last year in the 800-meter event. His two third-place finishes in skiing came one day after Greely High junior Katie Spencer, a transgender-identifying athlete, won two MPA Class B girls’ track state titles. One came in the pole vault; the other was a team state championship. 

Trump’s transgender athlete executive order last month directed the federal government to withhold education funding from states and school districts that allow males to compete in women’s sports, seeing it as a Title IX violation. However, most blue states, including Maine and California, have ignored the executive order. 

As transgender-identifying athletes continue to excel in Maine, Mills told Trump at the White House on Friday that her state will sue his administration to block enforcement of his EO.  

“I look forward to that. That should be a real easy one,” Trump responded. “And enjoy your life after governor because I don’t think you’ll be an elected official afterwards.” 

More states ban trans athletes

Since Trump signed the EO, the National Collegiate Athletic Association and four state athletic bodies–Virginia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Nebraska–have announced they will comply. 

The Nebraska School Activities Association made its announcement Monday, according to the Nebraska Examiner. 

Georgia could also soon restrict transgender-identifying athlete participation in girls’ sports.  

The state Senate passed a bill earlier this month to prevent males from competing in girls’ sports. The proposal has support from House Speaker Jon Burns, R-Newington, and Lt. Gov. Burt Jones.   

Jones said it is among the top priorities for Gov. Brian Kemp and his administration. 

“Biological men do not belong in women’s sports, period,” Jones said last month. “This is common sense to everyone but the most radical liberals in Georgia. 

“I will never waver in the fight to protect our sisters and our daughters participating on equal footing in Georgia sports,” he added. ‘I look forward to Senate Bill 1 becoming law and the protection of women’s sports becoming a reality for all female athletes in Georgia.”