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Trump Threatens to Withhold Federal Funding From California over Transgender Athlete
- President Donald Trump threatened to withhold large-scale federal funding from California on May 27, 2025, over the state's policy on transgender athletes in women’s sports.
- The threat follows California allowing a transgender high school athlete, AB Hernandez, who was born male, to compete and win in girls' track and field events.
- Trump invoked his February 5 executive order barring transgender women from female sports and warned local authorities they might be ordered to block Hernandez from competing in upcoming CIF state championships.
- Trump wrote he will deny "large scale federal funding" to California if it continues defying the order, highlighting the state’s reliance on over $170 billion in federal funds for its 2025-2026 budget.
- The confrontation pressures Governor Gavin Newsom, who has called transgender participation "deeply unfair," and suggests potential long-term funding cuts that could significantly impact California’s public programs.
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Transgender Athlete Reaches Victory in Defiance of Trump » The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
Over the weekend, 17-year-old transgender athlete AB Hernandez participated in the girls’ track and field state championships. In direct defiance of President Donald Trump’s executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” California allowed Hernandez to compete and qualify for the state championships, where he placed first in the high and triple jumps and took second place in the long jump. Issued on Feb. 5, 2025, this order cites the “d…
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WTX NewsAB Hernandez: The 16-year-old transgender girl at heart of sports row in California
President Trump has threatened to withdraw federal funding from California over transgender high school athlete AB Hernandez, who qualified for the state championship meet.
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Fox has been covering a trans high school athlete in California for months. Now it looks like Trump is posting about her.
In recent months, Fox News and Fox Corp.’s sports property OutKick have dedicated online and on-air coverage to a trans high school track-and-field athlete competing in California. Now President Donald Trump has seemingly referenced the athlete in a Truth Social post, making her the target of his latest attempt to elevate state policy on trans athletes to the level of a national crisis.
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