TRANS FURY
Violence erupts over trans athlete AB Hernandez in California with supporter arrested for smashing car with Pride flag
Furious high school parents slammed the mum of the trans athlete after the pupil's dominant victory
VIOLENT protests have erupted in California after a trans athlete served a crushing defeat to female rivals at the state championship.
AB Hernandez, 16, came first in the women's long jump and triple jump heats at the sporting event - in defiance of Donald Trump's executive order to ban trans athletes from women's sports.
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The student will compete again today at the finals of the Interscholastic Federation Southern Section Masters Meet.
But a crowd of angry parents confronted Hernandez's mother at the last event to complain that a trans athlete was competing against their daughters.
It has now turned into a heated row with dozens of protestors carrying out demonstrations to “save girls sports".
Protesters were seen carrying placards and boards outside the Veterans’ Memorial Stadium, where the sporting event took place.
A banner reading "NO BOYS IN GIRLS’ SPORTS!" was flown above the sporting venue during the high school track-and-field championships.
The protests quickly turned violent after one person was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, Clovis police Sgt. Chris Hutchison told the Chronicle.
He said the person - understood to be an LGBTQ activist - allegedly used a Pride flag to smash a car window, leaving a person injured.
More fiery protests are expected to take off as Hernandez prepares to take on female rivals during the finals today.
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Yesterday, furious high school parents berated the mother of the trans athlete after a dominant victory.
The video, which has now gone viral on TikTok, shows the parents hounding Hernandez's mother for allowing the teen to compete.
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One of the parents can be heard yelling at the mother: "What a coward of a woman you are allowing that."
Hernandez's story previously made headlines after another teenage girl, who the athlete beat to first place in a separate contest, waited for Hernandez to descend from the podium before moving to pose in the top spot.
In the TikTok, the parent can also be heard shouting: "Your mental illness is on your son, coward."
But more than half of the US states have implemented bans on trans youth athletes participating since 2020.
In an Instagram post, Hernandez's mother said: "It takes immense bravery to show up, compete, and be visible in a world that often questions your very right to exist, let alone to participate."
Hernandez's case was thrust into national attention after Donald Trump threatened to withhold federal funding from California over the trans athlete's sporting participation.
Hernandez's successes prompted the California Interscholastic Federation to change its rules to allow "biological female" student athletes who would have made the qualifying mark without a trans contestant in the race to compete in the finals.
A spokesperson for California Governor Gavin Newsom's office called the proposed pilot "reasonable".
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California state law allows the participation of trans women and girls in women's sports.
Trump posted on Truth Social: "Please be hereby advised that large scale Federal Funding will be held back, maybe permanently, if the Executive Order on this subject matter is not adhered to."
His message refers to an Executive Order from February titled "Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports".
In an interview with Capital & Main, Hernandez, from Jurupa Valley, California, said: "There’s nothing I can do about people’s actions, just focus on my own.
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"I’m still a child. You’re an adult, and for you to act like a child shows how you are as a person."
The trans pupil faced heckling and protesters in the crowd at a track meet earlier this month and was accompanied by campus security and Sheriff’s Department deputies, CNN has reported.
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