AB Hernandez found out the California Interscholastic Federation was bringing back a controversial scoring policy for track and field events with transgender competitors, the same way many teens learn important news: checking her phone.
“We were driving home when AB checked the app, and she’s like, ‘They’re doing it again,’” her mother, Nereyda Hernandez, told KQED.
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For much of the spring, how the CIF planned to handle this year’s track championship season had been an unknown. Last year, the state’s high school athletics governing body piloted the rule, which allowed an additional competitor to advance and earn a medal in events in which a transgender girl competes and places, after months of anti-trans backlash against Hernandez’s participation.
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