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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has issued a warning to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, threatening to separate the state from federal funds after athletes at California’s transgender high schools won a track event to compete in the national championships.
In a true social post on May 27, Trump said he “will be talking to Newsom, who was accused of continuing to illegally allow men to play in women’s sports.”
Trump pointed out last weekend’s California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section Masters Meat. There, transgender athletes won the women’s triple jump and long jump competitions, and advanced to the set state finals on May 30th and 31st.
“As a man, he was an average competitor,” Trump said. “As a woman, this transitioned person is practically invincible. This is not fair, it is totally mean to women and girls.”
“Major federal funds will likely be permanently restrained,” Trump added. He didn’t specify which funding stream to target.
He also said he “ordered local governments” in California to not allow trans athletes to compete in the championship this weekend.
The California situation has been a flash point in the Trump administration’s efforts to target transgender athletes. This is the issue of wedges that Trump and other Republicans have been actively promoting in recent elections.
After an athlete from the same high school won another triple jump competition on May 17th, the second-place winner was on the first-place podium after the awards ceremony. The video, filmed at the event show, yelled loudly from many parents and other audience members in the crowd.
A spokesperson for the California Governor’s Office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Longtime Trump enemy and potential 2028 Democratic candidate for the president, Newsom, defeated it from many progressive Democrats in a recent podcast interview with conservative activist Charlie Kirk when he said it was “deeply unfair” to allow trans athletes in girls and women’s sports.
Trump’s executive order aimed at “stop men from sports” directed the Department of Education to pursue “enforcement action” under Title IX. It pursues federal laws that prohibit discrimination based on the gender of educational institutions and adopts rules that “explicitly specify and clarify that women’s sports are reserved for women.”
In April, the U.S. Department of Education announced the creation of the “Title IX Special Investigation Team,” following Trump’s order reviewed what the department called “a staggering amount of Title IX complaints.”
Trump butted his head with several Democratic governors over the implementation of the order. In April, the Trump Justice Department sued Maine, alleging that he violated Title IX, refusing to ban transgender athletes from participating in women’s and women’s sports.
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