The school board meeting in California featured an emotional debate over trans athletes being allowed to share locker rooms with high school girls. One girl who cried during her speech was told by the board president to “put it together.”
On Wednesday at the board meeting of Luciamar Unified School District (LMUSD), a high school junior girls track athlete from Arroyo Grande High School, named Celesteisto, spoke about her experiences of having to change before practice before practice.
“I went to the women’s locker room and exchanged at the end of the line for track practice seen by biological men, not just myself but other young women.
“Adults like you make me, and my peers feel our own comfort is ineffective, even if our privacy is completely violated.”
The Dist then shed tears and claimed that the XY chromosome of a transathlete defined the person as a man, adding, “That’s the basic biology.”
However, Diest was suspended by LMUSD Board Chairman Colleen Martin.
“Now, wrap it around,” Martin said.
The teen then sniffed and continued talking.
I just want to ask, “How are we?” We cannot sit down and allow women to undress and deal with men who once stripped of women of their opportunity to regain our rights.
Diest then left the podium to applause from the audience before Martin tried to silence the cheers.
Martin began slamming her small giveaway to increase applause, but the cheers continued to grow.
“No!” cried Martin as the cheers grew louder.
After that, Martin sat there just quietly, as the applause lasted for a few more seconds.
Before Diest’s speech, a woman named Shannon Kessler, one of the other speakers, was planning to go after her teenage years, asked if Martin could give Diest a time to talk. However, Martin denied the request.
“We haven’t,” Martin said.
Several other parents spoke against the trans athletes present, while other community members spoke in support of trans inclusion.
California is one of many blue states in the country to ignore President Donald Trump’s executive order “exclude men from women’s sports” and has allowed trans athletes to compete with girls for more than a decade.
Laws called AB 1266 It has been in effect since 2014, and gives students at student and university levels the right to “participate in school programs and activities of gender, including athletic teams and competitions, and to use facilities that match their gender identity, regardless of the gender listed in the student’s records.”
California Regulation Code Section 4910(k) defines gender as follows: “It is a person’s actual or perceived gender, and its identity, appearance, or behavior includes a person’s perceived identity, appearance, or behavior, whether or not it is different from something related to the gender of the person born.”
CIF bylaw 300.D. “All students should have the opportunity to participate in CIF activities in a manner consistent with their gender identity, regardless of the gender listed in the student’s records.”
These laws and subsequent transathletes allowed them to compete with girls and women in the state, sparking multiple controversies over the issue last year alone.
The California Interstate Statistics Federation (CIF) said it follows state laws that allow athletes to participate as specific genders, a spokesman told Fox News Digital.
“CIF offers students the opportunity to belong to, connect and compete in education-based experiences complying with California law. [Education Code section 221.5. (f)] According to a statement from the CIF, students are now able to participate in school programs and activities, such as athletic teams and competitions, consistent with the student’s gender identity, regardless of the gender listed in the student’s records.
The Democratic majority in the California Legislature rejected two bills that changed state law on April 1 to ban trans athletes from women’s sports.
