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Shame on us for making brave girls fight for women’s sports alone

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Federal law is supposed to forbid it, and even California Gov. Gavin Newsom calls it unfair.

Yet on Saturday, AB Hernandez, a boy, swept the girls’ high jump, triple jump and long jump at the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Sectionals competition.

Hernandez’s dominating distances will most likely advance him to the state championships at the end of the month. 

CIF allowed the first-place girl in each event to share the podium with Hernandez — tacitly admitting two plain facts: that Hernadez is male, and that young women have unfairly had to compete against him for years.

The list of displaced girls is so long at this point that we’ve stopped flinching.

High jumper Reese Hogan is one of them; she’s been forced off the podium’s top spot by Hernandez over and over again. 

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“It’s just really disappointing to go into a competition knowing you already lost,” Hogan has said.

Everyone knows men and women are different. 

Everyone knows women’s sports exist because males are, on average, faster, stronger and possess greater physical advantages........

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