The Supreme Court ruled. The science is settled. The American people have spoken — loudly and repeatedly. And Gavin Newsom’s response? Go to hell.
California’s governor, fresh off yet another humiliation at the hands of a Supreme Court that apparently still believes in biological reality, is planting his flag in the dirt and daring anyone to make him move. Boys will compete against girls in California. Period. Full stop. And if you don’t like it, Newsom has a press release full of transgender talking points he’d like to shove in your face:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office has responded after the U.S. Supreme Court made a historic ruling on trans athletes in women’s sports on Tuesday.
The court ruled 6-3 to uphold state laws that protect women’s sports from biological male trans athletes. California is one of 23 states in the country that don’t have laws to protect women’s sports, and since 2014, has had a law in place to protect the rights of males to compete against females.
A spokesperson for Newsom’s office said the Supreme Court ruling will not impact California’s current setup.
Disgraceful. This man is auditioning for a presidential campaign on the backs of teenage girls.
Let’s not dress this up with careful language. What Newsom is defending — what he is actively fighting to preserve — is the right of biological males to take scholarships, medals, records, and roster spots from women who have spent their entire lives earning them. Girls who wake up at 4 a.m. to train. Girls who sacrifice their social lives, their bodies, and their time chasing a dream. Newsom is telling them flatly: your dream is worth less than his political ambitions. Get back in line.
When asked to defend this position, what did Newsom’s office produce? Not a scientific argument. Not a fairness framework. Not even a coherent policy rationale. They sent over a bullet-pointed brag sheet. A campaign flyer. A greatest hits collection of every radical gender policy California has inflicted on its residents since Newsom took power — easier gender marker changes, transgender judges, and a 2013 Jerry Brown law that started this whole disaster in the first place:
A source within Newsom’s office provided Fox News Digital a bulleted list titled “As a Governor, Governor Newsom has the strongest record in the country on protecting and expanding transgender rights.”
The list included several bragging points, including “making it easier to update gender markers on official documents,” and “appointed multiple trans judges.”
The list concludes by pointing out, “California is one of 22 states that have laws requiring transgender students to participate in sports consistent with their gender identity. California passed this law in 2013 (AB 1266) and it was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown.”
That’s the intellectual foundation of his position: I’ve always done this, I’m proud of it, and I don’t care what you think.
The physiological reality hasn’t changed and never will. Bone density doesn’t care about gender identity. Lung capacity doesn’t update when you file paperwork. Muscle mass built through male puberty doesn’t disappear because a document says otherwise. Every coach, every sports physician, and every honest scientist knows this. Gavin Newsom knows this too. He just doesn’t care, because the activists writing his campaign checks care about something else entirely.
Here’s what’s really going on: Newsom is gambling that the radical progressive base he needs for a 2028 presidential run is more important than the girls he’s supposed to be governing. He’s decided that transgender ideology is a hill worth dying on — even if the ones actually dying on it are female athletes in California who never asked to be pawns in his political theater.
The Supreme Court gave states the right to protect women’s sports. Newsom looked at that ruling and spat on it. Fine. Then it’s time for Congress to stop playing nice and make protection of women’s sports federal law — something California can’t wriggle out of with a press release and a list of progressive accomplishments.
Because make no mistake: as long as Gavin Newsom is governor, California’s daughters are on their own. He’s made that perfectly clear. We can’t let him do this to all our daughters as president.
