Girl athletes express fear over school district switching sports conferences to accommodate trans athletes

A citizens school district is in the process of transferring from Nevada's high school sports conference to California's so it can avoid Nevada's new protocol that keeps biological males out of high school girls' competitions and locker rooms The Tahoe Truckee Unified School District TTUSD in Truckee California is leaving the Nevada Interscholastic Programs Association NIAA to join the California Interscholastic Federation CIF The change will go into effect in Fall and comes after the NIAA voted to ban trans athletes from the girls' category during its April Board of Control meeting It was made in order to comply with President Donald Trump's Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports executive order However California has continued to defy the order and enable trans inclusion in girls' sports CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS COMMultiple TTUSD parents and girls' athletes pleaded with school representatives not to make the switch to California's federation at the Truckee Unified school board meeting Wednesday night Not only did they speak out the notion of letting trans athletes in girls' sports but a great number of speakers also pointed out that other details of the switch would affect the district's sports teams' ability to conduct their seasons including expedition and scheduling changes that would bring about expected weather complications for outdoor events The current setup with Truckee competing in the NIAA allows its teams to progress east into Nevada for majority of of its away competition as the town sits near the northern California-Nevada confines But with the coming change the apprentice athletes could soon have to passage west for bulk of their away competition This means that students will often have to journey through California's Donner Pass a -foot-high mountain pass During winter the pass is known for being dangerous due to extreme weather conditions like heavy snowfall strong winds and icy roads The high elevation and frequent storms contribute to treacherous excursion conditions including the likely for avalanches Truckee high school girls' track and field athlete Ava Cochram expressed her fears of playing against trans athletes Men generally have more muscle mass higher lung ceiling and greater bone density that gives them greater advantages physically in sports and I think that it's very unfair to watch all of our hard work as women to go down the drain Cochram disclosed I do not have anything against trans people but I think this is a violation of our privacy Truckee High School girls' soccer track and basketball athlete Kenzie Zilstorf lamented the idea of changing with trans athletes in the same locker room and having to increase the hazard of progress with the change It's even more bad if a woman has to go in the locker room with a man and change with them There's two genders a man and a woman Zilstorf announced And I think it's unfair that we have to take a dangerous drive to exposure our lives over the summit when there's snow all because of a privacy rule This is wrong North Tahoe High School girls' soccer player Anna Holly announced she isn't even going to be playing girls' soccer anymore because of the change It's sad for me because this is the only time I get to play soccer in my life and I really do enjoy it but I'm choosing basketball over that Holly declared And biologically boys are born with greater speed and strength than girls and having to play against them they do have an unfair advantage and I would not feel safe with them There's also safety concerns about how much stronger they are than us CALIFORNIA GIRL OPENS UP ON FIGHTING LEGAL AND POLITICAL BATTLE OVER TRANS ATHLETES AFTER LIFE-CHANGING PAINTTUSD still defended its decision to switch to CIF in a announcement provided to Fox News Digital A contemporary Nevada Interscholastic Pursuits Association NIAA agenda change made on April directly conflicts with California state law specifically the California Teaching Code s mandate against discrimination and protection of participant privacy Given the direct conflict between the NIAA's up-to-date agenda changes and the mandates of California state law TTUSD viewed joining a California athletics association as a necessary action to ensure legal compliance read a declaration from the TTUSD to Fox News Digital TTUSD also noted it anticipates the new arrangements will lead to shorter journey times for its pupil athletes for away competitions despite concerns over the Donner Pass TTUSD is working with CIF on details related to league assignment schedules and trip distances We anticipate that the overall mileage student-athletes passage within the CIF will be less than our current excursion schedules the district's comment read CIF is one of countless high school sports conferences located in blue states to defy Trump's executive order since it was signed on Feb It is in the present under scrutiny by the U S Department of Schooling for its defiance of the order and Development Secretary Linda McMahon has warned Governor Gavin Newsom that his state could be subject to federal funding freezes if it continues to defy Follow Fox News Digital s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter