Girl athletes express fear over school district switching sports conferences to accommodate trans athletes

A nationalist schoolhouse territory is successful the process of transferring from Nevada's precocious schoolhouse sports league 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 the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA) to articulation the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF). 

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

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Multiple TTUSD parents and girls' athletes pleaded with schoolhouse officials not to marque the power to California's federation astatine the Truckee Unified schoolhouse committee gathering Wednesday night. 

Not lone did they talk retired the conception of letting trans athletes successful girls' sports, but galore speakers besides pointed retired that different details of the power would impact the district's sports teams' quality to behaviour their seasons, including question and scheduling changes that would bring astir imaginable upwind complications for outdoor events. 

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

This means that students volition often person to question done California's Donner Pass, a 7,056-foot-high upland pass. During winter, the walk is known for being unsafe owed to utmost upwind conditions similar dense snowfall, beardown winds and icy roads. The precocious elevation and predominant storms lend to treacherous question conditions, including the 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 tract jock Ava Cochram expressed her fears of playing against trans athletes. 

"Men mostly person much musculus mass, higher lung capableness and greater bony density that gives them greater advantages, physically, successful sports, and I deliberation that it's precise unfair to ticker each of our hard enactment arsenic women to spell down the drain," Cochram said. "I bash 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 the thought of changing with trans athletes successful the aforesaid locker room, and having to summation the hazard of question with the change. 

"It's adjacent much atrocious if a pistillate has to spell successful the locker country with a antheral and alteration with them. There's 2 genders, a antheral and a woman," Zilstorf said. "And I deliberation it's unfair that we person to instrumentality a unsafe thrust to hazard our lives implicit the acme erstwhile there's snow, each due to the fact that of a privateness rule. This is wrong." 

North Tahoe High School girls' shot subordinate Anna Holly said she isn't adjacent going to beryllium playing girls' shot anymore due to the fact that of the change. 

"It's bittersweet for me, due to the fact that this is the lone clip I get to play shot successful my life, and I truly bash bask it, but I'm choosing hoops implicit that," Holly said. "And biologically, boys are calved with greater velocity and spot than girls, and having to play against them, they bash person an unfair advantage, and I would not consciousness harmless with them. There's besides information concerns astir however overmuch stronger they are than us." 

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TTUSD inactive defended its determination to power 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 with California authorities law, specifically the California Education Code’s mandate against favoritism and extortion of pupil privacy. Given the nonstop struggle betwixt the NIAA's caller argumentation changes and the mandates of California authorities law, TTUSD viewed joining a California athletics relation arsenic a indispensable enactment to guarantee ineligible compliance," work a connection from the TTUSD to Fox News Digital. 

TTUSD besides said it anticipates the caller arrangements volition pb to shorter question times for its pupil athletes for distant competitions, contempt concerns implicit the Donner Pass. 

"TTUSD is moving with CIF connected details related to league assignment, schedules, and question distances. We expect that the wide mileage student-athletes question wrong the CIF volition beryllium little than our existent question schedules," the 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 enforcement bid since it was signed connected Feb. 5. 

It is presently nether probe by the U.S. Department of Education for its defiance of the 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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