When I was in high school, I ran track. My best event was the long jump. I set a school record when I was 16.
My best jump was 21’11”. Not great, but not bad for a 16-year-old who spent more time surfing than practicing for the long jump. That jump would have put me in the Olympics…if I was female. My hair was long, but I wasn’t a girl.
This year, in my home state, a boy pretending to be a girl took the spotlight and took medals and memories away from hardworking girls. The girl who finished “second” to that boy will never get a chance to get that moment back. It’s lost, forever, like tears in the rain.
In late February, AB Hernandez, a transgender junior at Jurupa Valley High School in California, competed in the girls track and field meet securing first place in the high jump (4 feet, 10 inches), long jump (17 feet, 6 inches) and triple jump (40 feet, 0.5 inches) at the Ontario Relays. That triple jump performance was eight feet further than the runner-up.
17’6” for a high school boy in 2025 is below average. For a girl in high school, 17’6” would take first place. And it did — for a boy. This might come as a shock to leftists, but boys and girls are not the same. This apparently comes as a shock and apparently a cultural (losing) checkpoint for Democrats. Democrats have decided, once again, to step on a massive rake and eat it, too.
The House passed its version of the “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.” HR 28, authored by Greg Steube, pulled two Democrats onto the reality train. They were Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez, both from Texas. Everyone’s favorite bartender opposed it. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed that “assaulters” and CEOs supported the bill.