Gavin Newsom supply responds to deliberate protest towards trans athlete

The upcoming California highschool ladies’ monitor and subject postseason is about to function a trans athlete from Jurupa Valley Excessive College (JVHS).

A protest, organized by former NCAA girls’s soccer participant Sophia Lorey, might be held on the website of the California Interscholastic Southern Part, Division 3, preliminaries on Saturday. Lorey, a distinguished “Save Women’ Sports activities” activist within the state, organized an analogous protest on the similar spherical final 12 months, bringing nationwide consideration to the state playoffs. The difficulty finally caught the eye of President Donald Trump, who, in a Reality Social publish, known as out Gov. Gavin Newsom for his state’s continued insurance policies that allowed organic males to compete in ladies’ sports activities.

Fox Information Digital despatched a request to Newsom’s workplace for a response to the upcoming protest and competitors involving the trans athlete.

A supply on the governor’s workplace offered an announcement to Fox Information Digital in response.

“The Governor has stated discussions on this challenge ought to be guided by equity, dignity, and respect. He rejects the suitable wing’s cynical try and weaponize this debate as an excuse to vilify particular person youngsters. The Governor’s place is easy: stand with all youngsters and stand as much as bullies,” the assertion learn.

“California is one of twenty-two states which have legal guidelines requiring college students be permitted to take part in sex-segregated faculty sports activities according to their gender identification. California handed this regulation in 2013 (AB 1266) and it was signed into regulation by Governor Jerry Brown.”

Fox Information Digital has reached out to the trans athlete’s faculty district, the Jurupa Unified College District (JUSD), for a response.

Trump’s Division of Justice is engaged in Title IX lawsuits towards schooling businesses in California for its insurance policies that permit trans athletes in ladies’ highschool sports activities. The lawsuit was formally launched in July after JVHS’s trans athlete gained two state finals in triple bounce and excessive bounce, and gained second place in lengthy bounce, eventually 12 months’s championships.

Then within the fall got here a controversial ladies’ volleyball season involving that very same trans athlete. Three now-former JVHS feminine volleyball gamers filed a Title IX lawsuit towards the JUSD for permitting the trans athlete to be on the ladies’ staff and within the ladies’ locker room. A number of opposing groups forfeited to JVHS all through the season.

JUSD was in communication with Newsom’s workplace concerning the state’s Title IX authorized battle towards the Trump administration earlier that very same September, amid rising nationwide consideration as opposing volleyball groups forfeited to JVHS, seemingly in protest of the trans athlete. 

Newsom’s Authorized Affairs Secretary David Sapp despatched an e mail to district directors on Sept. 8 that appeared to incorporate a replica of the state’s movement to dismiss a lawsuit, filed by Trump’s DOJ in July, over the CIF’s continued insurance policies that permit males in ladies’ sports activities. 

“As mentioned, please see hooked up for a replica of the movement to dismiss that we filed on Friday in USDOJ’s lawsuit round Title IX,” Sapp’s e mail wrote. 

The e-mail was forwarded by one district administrator to others, to be mentioned at a gathering on Sept. 12. The alternate additionally appeared to point faculty directors just lately mentioned the problem with Sapp himself.

“You’ll be able to let the staff know that [JUSD administrator] & I obtained this from David Sapp with the Governor’s workplace on Monday when discussing the problem with them and we’re passing it alongside in case it’s useful for our dialogue at present,” the e-mail wrote. 

Fox Information Digital requested minutes and transcripts from the Sept. 12 assembly that the administrator’s e mail referenced from JUSD. The varsity district responded claiming it had no data it might share from the assembly.

“The September 12 assembly attended by [JUSD administrator] was a casual teleconference, which included, amongst different attendees, the District’s authorized counsel. There have been no minutes from the teleconference, and [JUSD administrator] didn’t take notes or create any paperwork,” a JUSD administrator informed Fox Information Digital.

“Any notes or paperwork ready by district authorized counsel haven’t been shared with another occasion and, as such, are lined by the attorney-client work privilege and lawyer work-product doctrine.”

A supply inside Newsom’s workplace offered an announcement, on background, to Fox Information Digital in January, in response to an inquiry for clarification on Sapp’s interplay with JUSD directors.

“On September 8, 2025, [JUSD] Superintendent [Trenton] Hansen and Dave Sapp spoke concerning the USDOJ lawsuit talked about in your e mail, which incorporates allegations associated to Jurupa USD. Dave adopted as much as share a replica of the State’s Movement to Dismiss, which had been filed the week earlier than and was in any other case publicly obtainable. Dave didn’t give the district any directives or ideas concerning its dealing with of the transgender athlete scenario or associated media interactions,” the assertion learn.

Trump’s administration cracked down with a extra focused investigation of JUSD in January. The U.S. Division of Schooling introduced JUSD particularly can be investigated for potential Title IX violations, together with 17 different establishments.

Now, the California state monitor and subject playoffs will probably be below the cloud of all of that, for a second 12 months in a row.

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