Protests have erupted in California after a teenage trans athlete thrashed female rivals in defiance of Trump’s executive order

The protests tool place during a schoolgirl competition where A.B. Hernandez, a public high school junior in Southern California, sealed a place in three finals after coming top in high jump, long jump and triple jump

President Trump has even threatening to hold back ‘large scale Federal Funding’ and blasted the state governor who he claims has continued to ‘ILLEGALLY allow “MEN TO PLAY IN WOMEN’S SPORTS”‘.

The Daily Mail reports: Hernansez’s glamorous mother, who has also been confronted by angry parents whose daughters are losing out on gold medals, yesterday responded to the dramatic onslaught. She slammed the President’s ‘weapons of harm’ and saying her daughter had become the ‘target of a national campaign of cruelty’.

Hernandez has previously faced controversy from her own competitors – with a teenage girl they beat to first place waited for her rival to get down from the top of the podium before posing up there herself.

And as protesters descended on the California Interscholastic Federation state finals police were dramatically called in – with protesters ‘turning physical’ and even using pepper spray.

They arrested one alleged LGBTQ activist, who is accused of shattering a car window with a flag pole – as Sergeant Chris Hutchison of Clovis Police Department said he doesn’t ‘have room for violence.’

Videos of the alleged attack show a masked protestor with a trans flag walking up to a car before thrusting it through the window. The person in the car claims that they responded with pepper spray.

As the girls took to the field, a plane even flew a banner across the high school track-and-field championships stating ‘No boys in girls sports’. While the girl competed she was heckled by gathered activists and others wore ‘Save Girls´ Sports’ T-shirts.

The nation is now holding its breath as the finals will kick off today – with Hernandez predicted to dominate her categories. 

In February, Trump signed an executive order banning trans athletes from women’s sports called ‘Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports’. 

The pledge was one of Trump’s most popular rallying cries during the 2024 election campaign and his move to follow through on his vow was celebrated by many sports fans.