A school board member at a California district that just recently defied leftist Gov. Gavin Newsom and state precedents to say that boys would not be allowed in girls athletics has revealed the inspiration for the common-sense move.
Kern High School District trustee Derek Tisinger was interviewed by Fox and said he and his colleagues “had to witness a Christian school forfeit to one of the schools in its district over a trans athlete.”
It was difficult, he said.
“People try to say, ‘Hey, it only affects a small amount of people,’ but there were probably 30 girls that practiced and dreamed their whole life about playing volleyball, and they didn’t get to play,” Tisinger said. “To sit here and talk about this, it’s almost ridiculous.”
He said he has sympathy for the boy who was on the girls team, and created the dispute.
“This young man, he has every opportunity to play in any sport, men’s sport, he can play golf, tennis, he can do whatever he wants to do, but I don’t believe that he has the right to come in and displace a girl on a team and take her playing ability away and possibly taking away a chance for her to get a scholarship down the road,” Tisinger said.
Kern, the largest high school district in the state, has joined more than a dozen other districts in the state in defying Newsom’s leftist agenda.
The trigger for Tisinger was the decision by Bakersfield Christian to forfeit its freshman-sophomore game to Ridgeview High in the final week of September.
Bakersfield explained, “As a school grounded in the authority of Scripture, we affirm the biblical view that sex is determined by God at conception.”
A report at Fox said the resolution was authored by Chino Valley Unified School Baord President Sonja Shaw, and was pushed through his own district by Tisinger.
There now are 16 districts in California defying the state.
“People in our community and our district know that we are concerned about biological boys playing in girls’ sports, and we don’t want it to happen,” Tisinger added.
Tisinger was threatened by parents who advocate for the transgender agenda, but he cited the warnings from the federal government and President Donald Trump that schools who allow boys in girls athletics risk the potential loss of funding.