President Trump threatened Tuesday to revoke federal funding from California over a transgender high school track and field athlete who qualified over the weekend for the state finals, instructing local authorities to block the student from participating.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump railed against 16-year-old AB Hernandez, a junior at Jurupa Valley High School in Southern California who won the girls’ long jump and triple jump events at the California Interscholastic Federation’s Southern Section Masters on May 24, qualifying for the state championships that will take place May 30 – 31.

He said Hernandez won “everything” at the meet and falsely claimed she had previously competed on the boys’ team. Hernandez came out as transgender in the eighth grade, her mother, Nereyda, said in an April interview with Capital and Main, a nonprofit news organization in California.

“THIS IS NOT FAIR, AND TOTALLY DEMEANING TO WOMEN AND GIRLS,” Trump wrote Tuesday. “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.”

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