How One Boy in Girls' Sports Breaks the Entire Ecosystem

The California Interscholastic Federation has been orchestrating a drag show for two years now—a painted boy, performing girlhood on a sports stage. But it doesn’t stop with him. It affects, it INFECTS the entire sports ecosystem—one boy in girls’ sports breaks girls’ sports. One boy-with-a-girl-identity in boys’ sports would not break boys’ sports. It would go unnoticed. It’s not his girl identity that is the problem but rather that the rest of society is made to pretend he is a girl. Not a single person on this planet thinks AB Hernandez is a girl, including Hernandez himself: It’s the pretense that’s so harmful.

In this sideshow, female athletes become unwitting, unwilling props. Sports administrations enforce unfairness. Competition becomes an affirmation exercise, an ideological ritual. “Victory” is shameful. Camaraderie is coerced. Inspiration becomes pandering. Cheating is rewarded. Mediocrity identifies as excellence. The beauty of athleticism is twisted, and female is a costume.

Instead of the many thousands of girls and the whole massive healthy functioning girls’ sports ecosystem absorbing one boy-with-a-girl-identity, turning him into a “girl” by “inclusion,” that one boy infects ALL of those thousands of girls and perverts the whole girls’ sports enterprise—athletes, coaches, California Interscholastic Federation, schools, fans, media. There are no winners; everyone loses. It is the reductio ad absurdum of transgenderism—the public degradation of sport and the rape of reality.

For comparison, here’s how it would look if AB Hernandez was a girl. I.e, how sports normally work

If Hernandez was a girl, well, he simply wouldn’t have achieved the kind of dominance he has in the girls’ category. No girl has achieved this level of national dominance across three events. Notably, no boy competing in boys’ sports has either. This kind of dominance can only happen when a male is allowed to compete in female sports. Sport scientist Greg Brown provided these statistics to illustrate how male Hernandez is, and how his inclusion has corrupted girls’ sports.

According to current rankings on Athletic.net, Hernandez is ranked among the top 15 girls in the United States in three separate events: #5 in the triple jump, #13 in the long jump, and #11 in the high jump. Doing this well in even one jumping event is amazing. Achieving top-15 national rankings across three different jumping disciplines is pretty much unheard of.

For example, among the top 15 girls in the nation in these events, athletes D’Anna Cotton (#2 triple jump, #7 long jump), Kira Grant Hatcher (#10 triple jump, #6 long jump), and Madison Cuplin (#8 triple jump, #1 long jump) are ranked in two jumping events, but not all three. No boys are even in the top 15 in two of these events, let alone all three.

Hernandez appears to be uniquely advantaged among high school “girls” in demonstrating elite national rankings simultaneously in the triple jump, long jump, and high jump. This pattern is consistent with the broader scientific literature demonstrating that males possess performance advantages in explosive and power-based athletic tasks, including sprinting and jumping, due to factors such as greater muscle mass, strength, tendon stiffness, and power production capacity. The issue is therefore not merely isolated victories in individual competitions, but the emergence of a level of across-the-board athletic superiority that is unheard of within track and field.

If Hernandez was female no one would be claiming his performances were unfair or that he didn’t belong. A girls’ outstanding athletic performances would be celebrated, not questioned. Female champions are generally magnanimous toward their co-competitors and humble, not bitter and defensive. Like Lance Armstrong on the ropes, Hernandez told media, “They picked the wrong girl. I mean, half of the girls are on my side so…I did what I wanted to do…” Narcissism is not a celebrated trait of track champions.

If Hernandez was female, he would not feel the need to perform exaggerated girlhood. Some girls wear makeup in a competition and some do not, but no female champion has felt the need to prove her girlhood in addition to her jumping skills. Why would she? It’s a track meet, not a Halloween dance. In the same way that Dylan Mulvaney flailing around in a sports bra was a grotesque distraction from the product, calculated drag-like makeup, bows in his hair, head tilt and simpering mannerisms shift the focus from athletics to a boy doing an insulting girl dance.

Female track champions focus on track. Hernandez focuses on acting. Every minute of every day. It’s about acting—sports just happens to be the stage he’s on. His performance, the one everyone notices, the one he’s putting energy into, is not inspiring or admirable, it’s sad.

If Hernandez was a girl, his co-competitors would not be asked by media how they feel about competing against him

If Hernandez was a girl virtually no media would be interviewing the second place finisher in the high jump at a high school meet. If Hernandez was a girl, the female athletes being interviewed, not about their athletic performances but about another competitor’s maleness, would not have to filter and censor their feelings, their facial expressions, their actions, and their words. They wouldn’t have to act. Competitions are a festival of emotions—anxiety, focus, elation, disappointment—and athletes express those emotions openly. That’s normal. But pretending a co-competitor is not male is being forced into a painful performance: Being extra nice, exaggeratedly kind, not bigoted at all, so so accepting of this painted cartoon-of-a-girl, laughing at his jokes, suppressing any hint of resentment, anger, disbelief, disgust. There’s no camaraderie. They’re not supporting a teammate, they’re being coerced to support a boy. To support transgenderism. A lie.

Example A: Some girls were interviewed by Outsports and they gushed that they had absolutely no problem with him, he was a great competitor: “I still would have gotten second place..” Never has a female athlete been happier to share second place. With a boy. Cringe-worthy Stockholm Syndrome.

The sad truth is these girls have grown up in California with the message since kindergarten that boys are girls if they say so. Be kind. Who are you to say this person is male? Here’s the result of that indoctrination. In addition to social opprobrium for speaking up, most of these girls, the top jumpers, are banking on a college scholarship. If they speak up about a male competitor, that scholarship will be in question. Troublemaker. Best to be a cheerful patsy team player.

Reese Hogan and Olivia Viola would not have been on Fox 9 News talking about the unfairness of boys in girls’ sports if AB Hernandez was a girl. Hogan and Viola have had to become activists as well as athletes, a role most of the adults in California are unwilling to perform. High school female athletes do not normally have to take on a highly political, socially and literally risky, high stakes public role in addition to their role as athletes.

One boy in girls’ sports has turned female athletes into either smiling, clapping props in an ideological play or high stakes activists.

The CIF, whose job it is to make sports fair, have knowingly enforced unfairness

To be clear, the CIF knows and admits that Hernandez is male and that allowing him to compete in girls’ sports is unfair. But rather than simply directing Hernandez to compete in his sex category and thereby correcting the unfairness, they have tied themselves into knots, making up special rules to allow the unfairness to continue but maybe not be as unfair to girls. The CIF, a decades-old massive institution, is no longer a sports governing body but is now in the business of managing PR for trans ideology. Regardless of how humiliating it is, this is their new role, in service of one boy in girls’ sports.

Last year, Hernandez topped the podium all season long, besting the competition in three events by outrageous margins, the unfairness impossible to ignore. Just before the state meet, the CIF scrambled to make up a special, one-time, state meet only, jumping-events-only rule stating that if Hernandez placed first, second, or third, the first, second, or third place girl would also receive that award. See? The boy-who-identifies-as-a-girl award and the actual girl award. There is no precedent of this in sports. Because it’s not sports. It’s gender identity applied. And that happened. And everyone pretended it was not the stupidest, most insulting, degrading display ever. Not proud, not inspiring, not sports. Not a solution, a capitulation.

This year, the CIF, demoted to huckster outside the circus tent, has quietly allowed 10 athletes to continue on from the section to the state meet instead of the usual 9, just in the three events in which Hernandez competes.

Jurupa Valley High School has a two-sport, multi-state championship winning, nationally ranked athlete who they do not mention on their website, nor on the Outstanding Seniors feature on Facebook.

If Hernandez was a girl, the school would trumpet this once-in-a-generation athletic talent from the rooftops. What a boost for school spirit! The coach would be a hero, he’d be quoted in the media. The track team would be elevated by association. But they know he’s male. They know it’s cheating. No one wants to claim credit for that. There’s no glory in it. Outstanding accomplishments are shameful. Don’t mention it. That’s not normal for school athletics. One boy in girls’ sports has broken high school athletics.

Hernandez’s gender identity consumes all media. Female athletes—athletics in general—have been ignored.

Sports media exists to highlight outstanding athletes. If Hernandez was a girl, well, if Hernandez was a high school girl, he would not have dominated three events, in California or nationally (see Greg Brown’s analysis above). A talented high school female athlete who was nationally ranked would have garnered some local news coverage and DyeStat might have given her the time of day, but it wouldn’t have made a blip in national news. But it did. Because news sources know Hernandez is male. Did some girls, or boys, put up some amazing performances at the Yorba Linda track meet? Probably. But sports was ignored. The focus was on Hernandez’s gender identity—not training or coaching or technique. The story was transgenderism, not sports. The only time girls were interviewed was to ask them how they felt about competing with a boy. One boy in girls’ sports has broken sports media.

This is not how sports work. None of this is normal healthy behavior, for individuals, for institutions, or for sports events. One boy competing in girls’ sports has literally broken the entire girls’ sports ecosystem and turned it into a sideshow. Shameful, humiliating, grotesque.

According to inclusion advocates, this is a transgender success story.