WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:04.200 Clovis, California, became the epicenter of our nation's culture war 2 00:00:04.919 --> 00:00:09.599 over this past weekend. As a boy, ab Hernandez was 3 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:15.560 allowed to compete in and dominate his various events in 4 00:00:15.640 --> 00:00:22.160 the California State High School Track and field competition overseen 5 00:00:22.679 --> 00:00:27.000 by CIF the California Interscholastic Federation, which is the governing 6 00:00:27.039 --> 00:00:32.880 body for California high school sports. Now, I was there 7 00:00:33.039 --> 00:00:37.200 for pretty much the whole weekend, everything that happened from 8 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:40.840 the Thursday press conference held by Clovis City Council member 9 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:46.640 and Mayor pro tem of Clovis, Diane Pierce, all the 10 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:51.039 way to the end of the track meet Saturday night 11 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:56.479 in the midst of you know, a super enormous heat wave, 12 00:00:57.679 --> 00:01:01.200 extremely hot temperatures even for Fresno. 13 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:02.079 For the end of February. 14 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:05.319 I think I sweat out over the course of Friday 15 00:01:05.319 --> 00:01:09.359 and Saturday, about four times my body weight worth of water. 16 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:13.599 So I want to go through the whole thing. 17 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:18.719 Now, let's start with the actual controversy itself and the 18 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:26.840 legal setting. So California has had laws on the books, 19 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:29.640 laws that were passed in twenty thirteen that went into 20 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:34.319 effecting twenty fourteen and under Jerry Brown, that basically say, 21 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:41.159 in California public high schools, sports and other accommodations like bathrooms, 22 00:01:41.359 --> 00:01:45.799 locker rooms, et cetera, are on the basis of gender identity, 23 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:49.959 not biological sex. So if a boy thinks he's a girl, 24 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:56.120 he gets to play girls basketball, girls water polo, girls swimming, 25 00:01:56.280 --> 00:02:00.760 girls track and field. He thereby also gets to use 26 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:03.640 the girl's locker room, the girl's bathroom, the girls showers. 27 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:09.240 This has been on the books in California again since 28 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:19.479 twenty fourteen, so that's California law. President Trump in early 29 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:25.639 February issued an executive order to protect girls' sports, and 30 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:31.000 the Trump administration basically put forward the argument that Title 31 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:39.159 nine itself demands that boys not play girls' sports, that 32 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:43.319 the presence of male athletes is demeaning and insulting to 33 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:48.319 women in their athletic competitions, and specifically that their presence 34 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:55.240 within locker rooms is a threatening and endangering thing. So 35 00:02:55.400 --> 00:03:01.840 Title nine would demand adequate fair treatment of women within sports. 36 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:05.639 Title nine demands that men not play, and the Trump 37 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:11.000 administration basically said, we are going to engage in Title 38 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:15.199 nine enforcement efforts against body athletic governing bodies that do 39 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:21.280 that persist in letting men play women's sports. The NCAA 40 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:27.560 pretty much immediately complied almost instantaneously after the Trump administration 41 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:33.919 issued this executive order. The CIF, however, did not. The 42 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:36.680 CIF basically said, well, no, we're going to have We're 43 00:03:36.680 --> 00:03:38.599 gonna we're going to follow California state law. 44 00:03:41.759 --> 00:03:45.240 So the CIF did not comply with the Trump executive order. 45 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:51.120 Now, over the course of last week, CIF wound up 46 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:56.039 changing their policies like twice in two different ways, and 47 00:03:56.120 --> 00:03:58.719 basically what they ended at was a policy that's not 48 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:03.840 really in conformity with the Trump executive order because they 49 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:11.960 are still allowing males to compete in competition alongside female competitors. 50 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:18.160 They have also done nothing to address problems like accommodations, bathrooms, showers, 51 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:21.480 locker rooms, which frankly like as as much as I 52 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:25.720 think it is bad and unfair and tears of unfairness here, 53 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:29.360 t I e r s of unfairness here. As unfair 54 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:31.560 as I think it is that boys are stealing the 55 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:36.319 spotlight from girls and getting awarded alongside girls. 56 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:37.800 Or could be taking opportunities from girls. 57 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:43.680 The most egregious harm of such policies is the violations 58 00:04:43.720 --> 00:04:48.120 of women's privacy that it entails men using women's bathrooms, 59 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:51.920 men changing in women's locker rooms, men showering in women's 60 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:55.800 locker rooms. When you're talking about high school, also, let's 61 00:04:55.800 --> 00:05:02.079 remember not just focusing on Pacific athletic event like this 62 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:05.319 Track and Feel meet, but just in general, you're at 63 00:05:05.319 --> 00:05:11.959 a high school, you train, you know, you've got a 64 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:17.959 team training. This same team like a basketball team. Let's 65 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:21.759 say might have a fourteen year old freshman. 66 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:23.920 Girl. 67 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:29.560 The girl's basketball team could include a fourteen year old 68 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:38.360 freshman girl and a eighteen year old male who identifies 69 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:41.279 as a girl, who are expected now to shower together. 70 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:47.800 Let's let that sink in. Okay, and you could have 71 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:52.560 you're talking about an adult male who might be a 72 00:05:52.639 --> 00:05:57.839 high school senior who identifies as a woman. But it's 73 00:05:57.959 --> 00:06:03.079 just identify as there doesn't need to be any hardware update. 74 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:07.480 Let me if I can put it delicately. Okay. 75 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:11.879 This might be someone who has not had any surgery, 76 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:16.240 any kind of plastic surgery to make his body appear 77 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:18.959 more like the body of a woman. This might not 78 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:21.879 even be someone who's on hormones to try to make 79 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:27.240 their appearance more like a woman. You can genuinely have 80 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:32.800 a situation where an eighteen year old male is showering 81 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:39.959 alongside fourteen year old females. So that was not at 82 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:43.639 all addressed by the CIF policy. So CIF made their 83 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:45.879 policies less egregious. 84 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:46.879 How do they do that? 85 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:49.480 So what CIF did over the course of last week 86 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:55.720 is basically, say, a biological boy is allowed to compete 87 00:06:56.120 --> 00:06:57.800 in the girls event on the basis of a claim 88 00:06:57.839 --> 00:07:04.319 gender identity. But basically they're not going to take any 89 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:07.600 spot from a girl. So no girl is going to 90 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:10.720 fail to qualify for the next round if they are 91 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:14.680 beat out for a spot by a transgender competitor. Okay, 92 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:19.240 so if a transgender competitor makes the qualifying time or 93 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:25.000 jump or whatever, instead of let's say bringing ten girls 94 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:26.920 to the finalists, we're now going to bring eleven. 95 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:32.879 Right. Also, no girl is going to miss out. 96 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:36.399 On her final result or spot on the basis of 97 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:41.000 a transgender competitor. So if the transgender person gets first place, 98 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:44.839 the next ranked girl is also awarded first place, and 99 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:47.920 then the next girl who is third as far as 100 00:07:47.959 --> 00:07:51.160 her time or distance or whatever, is awarded second place, 101 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:53.720 and so on. So no girl's going to miss out 102 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:56.480 on a spot because of a transgender competitor. No girl 103 00:07:56.759 --> 00:07:59.160 is going to miss out on a ranking because of 104 00:07:59.199 --> 00:08:03.600 a transgender competitor, which really kind of makes it seem like, 105 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:08.279 what the heck are we doing here? This is basically 106 00:08:08.399 --> 00:08:12.360 just something to gratify this child's ego, or this to 107 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:13.639 make this child feel good. 108 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:18.240 Now, Trevor actually said it best. 109 00:08:19.160 --> 00:08:21.480 He had me on the show on Thursday and we 110 00:08:21.519 --> 00:08:23.519 talked about it, and Trevor just off the top of 111 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:25.319 his head and he said, I could use this line. 112 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:26.480 So I'm going to use this line. 113 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:30.720 Basically said, so Aby Hernandez, this boy who's playing in 114 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:33.879 the girls events, he's basically in a phantom league of 115 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:37.399 his own. And that's exactly what it is. He's more 116 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:40.279 or less competing in this phantom league. And you saw 117 00:08:40.360 --> 00:08:42.799 that during the track meet last weekend. 118 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:44.519 He wins. 119 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:50.200 First place in the triple jump by a massive margin. 120 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:52.279 But another girl. 121 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:59.440 From Albany, California is also awarded first place, even though 122 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:02.759 she jumped you know, almost two feet, not as far 123 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:07.799 as Hernandez did in the triple jump. The next girl, 124 00:09:08.039 --> 00:09:10.559 who had the third longest jump is awarded second place. 125 00:09:10.919 --> 00:09:11.399 And so on. 126 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:19.440 Now I'm gonna take you kind of day by day 127 00:09:19.480 --> 00:09:20.200 over the course of the show. 128 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:21.480 I'm going to take you guys kind of. 129 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:24.720 Day by day throughout the week, and I'm going to 130 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:29.600 start I'll start with Thursday. So Thursday was the press 131 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:33.320 conference that took place at the Clovis Veterans' Memorial Building 132 00:09:34.080 --> 00:09:36.639 that was convened by Diane Pierce. And I just want 133 00:09:36.639 --> 00:09:42.399 to say this, Diane Pierce stood tall this whole week 134 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:47.120 as the obvious leader locally on this issue. Now it 135 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:52.639 was in Clovis, in the city of Clovis. One could 136 00:09:52.799 --> 00:09:56.000 argue that it sort of made sense for a City 137 00:09:56.039 --> 00:09:59.960 of Clovis official to be the one leading the charge, 138 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:02.960 but I don't know that that's necessarily true. Anyone could 139 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:07.080 have taken the lead on this. An assembly member, of state, senator, 140 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:12.000 a congressman, county supervisor, and certainly a lot of local 141 00:10:12.039 --> 00:10:15.399 politicians participated in her efforts and were supportive. And I 142 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:19.519 appreciate all the people who were there backing what Diane does. 143 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:24.639 But the fact remains she was the one who was 144 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:27.480 convening these press conferences and bringing the most attention to this, 145 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:30.960 getting the attention of the Trump administration to focus on 146 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:34.679 what was going on. She was one sort of convening this, 147 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:38.000 working with Vince Fong's office to alert people at the 148 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:43.799 federal level, etc. So Diane Pierce calls this press conference, 149 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:51.039 and I'll say this, I think she's an extremely talented politician. 150 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:58.360 I think she's a great public speaker, and I think 151 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:01.600 the future is quite bright for her if she chooses 152 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:05.240 to pursue some higher office. 153 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:06.320 Beyond the Clovis City Council. 154 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:08.639 And there are probably going to be some opportunities like 155 00:11:08.720 --> 00:11:11.720 that locally for her, whether it's the County Board of 156 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:16.960 Supervisors or the State Senate. I know it's announced that 157 00:11:17.080 --> 00:11:20.759 Nathan Magzig, who is the county supervisor who represents the 158 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:25.799 Clovis area, is running for the state Senate once Shannon 159 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:29.440 Grove term limits out. He'll be running for Grove's seat 160 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:31.639 in twenty twenty six. I think there are going to 161 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:35.399 be opportunities for Peers. And clearly she was heading shoulders 162 00:11:36.039 --> 00:11:40.480 the leader on this whole issue. So in the press conference, 163 00:11:40.919 --> 00:11:44.159 Diane Pierce spoke, she read a message from State Senator 164 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:48.639 Shannon Grove. David Tonguipa was there. He spoke, and he 165 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:52.759 talked about some proposals he was working on for maybe 166 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:58.039 open competition categories where the competition would be open to 167 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:01.279 persons of either sex, in order to sort of make 168 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:03.879 it clear that this is a woman's category, this is 169 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:06.000 a man's category. If you want people to come in 170 00:12:06.039 --> 00:12:09.879 and mix regardless of Jenner in a separate category, that's fine. 171 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:14.200 He was sort of taking inspiration from. I guess professional 172 00:12:14.279 --> 00:12:20.639 bowling does a kind of open competition in certain cases. 173 00:12:21.840 --> 00:12:22.519 I'm not sure. 174 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:26.080 I mean, I can tell Tongu he's I can tell 175 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:28.799 that talk about is trying to work within the constraints 176 00:12:28.799 --> 00:12:31.799 of what he can work with within the California state legislature, 177 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:34.279 which is to say, very liberal constraints. 178 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:38.320 I guess I'm not sure how. 179 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:43.879 Sensible that's going to be, though, given that for sports 180 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:46.519 like track and field, the only people who are going 181 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:52.320 to be in the open boys are just so much bigger, taller, stronger, faster, 182 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:57.360 and outmatch girls that the top boys out match the 183 00:12:57.360 --> 00:13:02.559 top girls so significantly. I mean the winning the best 184 00:13:02.679 --> 00:13:06.799 high jump on the girl's side was five foot seven. 185 00:13:06.919 --> 00:13:10.159 The best high jump on the boy's side was six 186 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:13.720 foot nine. Like, what are we even talking about here? 187 00:13:13.759 --> 00:13:18.200 There's no, it's not necessarily very sensible for it to 188 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:25.200 be a mixed category, i'd say. And throughout the Thursday 189 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:31.799 press conference, the leading object of scorn as is right 190 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:37.360 and just was our beloved Governor Gavin Newsom. Now Newsome, 191 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:44.159 you know, he made the critical mistake of doing this podcast, 192 00:13:44.159 --> 00:13:47.679 which is now I think my wife noted that his 193 00:13:47.960 --> 00:13:52.200 podcast listenership has absolutely plummeted from the first few episodes, 194 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:55.000 which is, by the way, how all these celebrity podcasts go. 195 00:13:56.480 --> 00:13:59.759 Every celebrity podcast does this. They announced that some celebrity 196 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:02.960 has podcast, everyone makes a big start, maybe there's like 197 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:04.960 one news story that breaks as a result of it. 198 00:14:06.039 --> 00:14:08.639 They get, you know, a bunch of people to listen 199 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:12.840 for the first two episodes, and then nobody ever listens 200 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:14.720 to it again. And that seems to be precisely what 201 00:14:14.759 --> 00:14:15.600 happened with Newsom. 202 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:16.000 Now. 203 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:18.279 Newsom's problem was that when he started the podcast, he 204 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:21.039 was like talking only with like really conservative people like 205 00:14:21.159 --> 00:14:24.039 Charlie Kirk and then Michael Savage and this person and 206 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:27.600 that person, and it really ticked off liberals that he 207 00:14:27.639 --> 00:14:32.120 did that, and conservatives were like whoa, Okay, So, you know, 208 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:35.519 the very first episode of Newsom's podcast, he's talking with 209 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:40.000 Charlie Kirk and he says, yeah, it's deeply unfair when 210 00:14:40.039 --> 00:14:44.879 biological boys, when boys, you know, playing girls sports. And 211 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:48.679 through the press conference, everyone's like, all right, well, Gavin Newsom, 212 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:51.559 where are you, buddy? You know, if you think it's 213 00:14:51.559 --> 00:14:53.559 deeply unfair for boys to play girls sports. 214 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:54.639 This is the state. 215 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:59.480 Track and field championships. We're gonna say that the bet 216 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:03.600 that the high jump champion of California is a girl, 217 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:07.159 that the long jump second place finisher of California is 218 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:12.000 a excuse me, that the high jump girls champion is 219 00:15:12.039 --> 00:15:16.240 a boy, that the long jump second place girls finisher 220 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:20.360 is a boy, and that the triple jump champion by 221 00:15:20.399 --> 00:15:22.399 almost two feet is a boy. 222 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:25.759 Where are you? 223 00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:29.639 Where are you trying to lead the charge in the 224 00:15:29.679 --> 00:15:33.080 state legislature to change this? But this is the problem 225 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:37.840 with Newsom. He says it's unfair, but he doesn't have 226 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:43.200 the political stones, He doesn't have the political courage to 227 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:44.200 actually do. 228 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:44.960 Anything about it. 229 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:50.080 He's not going to introduce legislation to keep boys out 230 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:54.480 of girls sports, and he doesn't have clean hands on 231 00:15:54.559 --> 00:16:00.919 the question. It was Newsome in twenty twenty who changed 232 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:09.080 California law signed into law massive changes for California prisons 233 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:12.120 mandating that they house inmates on the basis of gender identity, 234 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:17.120 not biological sex. Which, as much as we're talking about 235 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:19.200 girl sports, and yes, I do think boys playing girl 236 00:16:19.240 --> 00:16:23.639 sports is unfair and unjust, housing men in women's prisons 237 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:28.919 is worse. It's a much more serious violation of privacy, 238 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:33.840 a much more serious risk because now you're saying that 239 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:36.279 women have to be locked up. 240 00:16:38.279 --> 00:16:42.639 With convicted criminals, convicted criminal men. 241 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:47.120 As we see in Madera County where Sally Moreno, the 242 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:51.720 DA up there is prosecuting a man who got housed 243 00:16:51.720 --> 00:16:56.480 in the Chowchilla Women's prison who proceeded is accused of 244 00:16:56.799 --> 00:17:00.480 raping three of his cellmates, one of whom he got pregnant. 245 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:07.680 When we return, we'll have more from my weekend at 246 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:10.200 the races, My day at the races, My day at 247 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:11.279 the Culture War races. 248 00:17:11.319 --> 00:17:13.519 That's next on the John Girardi Show. 249 00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:19.279 John Girardi here, we're talking about this past weekend at 250 00:17:19.319 --> 00:17:23.599 the California State High School track and field meet held 251 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:26.319 up Buchanan High School, in which a biological well, just 252 00:17:26.680 --> 00:17:28.960 a boy. I'm not sure there's any other kind of 253 00:17:28.960 --> 00:17:32.240 boy than a biological boy. Biology is what makes you 254 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:32.599 a boy. 255 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:33.400 A boy. 256 00:17:33.559 --> 00:17:37.440 Ab Hernandez, who's a junior from la from Harupa Valley 257 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:44.279 High School in southern California, a boy, won the California 258 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:46.960 state championship in the triple jump, tied for first in 259 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:50.160 the high jump, and got second placed in the long jump, 260 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:53.200 all in the girls' division in spite of the fact 261 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:57.759 that ab Hernandez is a boy. So I was there 262 00:17:57.920 --> 00:18:01.799 Friday and Saturday. Friday was the pliminaries and Saturday was 263 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:05.519 the championship competitions for the state track and field meets, 264 00:18:06.039 --> 00:18:07.839 and it was actually it was my first time going 265 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:09.440 to a big track and field meet like that. It 266 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:13.799 was actually really interesting and pretty fun. The not so 267 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:17.480 much the field events, the high jump, long jump, triple jump. 268 00:18:17.480 --> 00:18:20.559 Those were pretty boring, honestly, but the track events were 269 00:18:20.599 --> 00:18:25.160 super exciting, including the one hundred meter dash, where a 270 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:30.920 boy set the new California state record in the one 271 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:33.640 hundred meter dash. This kid ran a ten point h 272 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:38.279 one second one hundred meter dash, which was absolutely thrilling 273 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:45.759 to watch. So let me talk about Hernandez himself, who, 274 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:48.079 by the way, in all of this. Let's just remember, 275 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:51.039 I understand a lot of you listening don't like boys 276 00:18:51.039 --> 00:18:55.880 playing girls sports. I have no ill will to the kid, who, 277 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:58.200 let's remember, is a kid. This is an eleventh grader. 278 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:01.960 This is not an adult. So let's take that with 279 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:04.880 a grain of salt. I'm not here to bash any kid. 280 00:19:06.039 --> 00:19:16.319 So Hernandez is a very effeminate acting boy. He's not 281 00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:23.119 the biggest boy, he's obviously pretty slight, but he's recognizably 282 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:26.599 a boy. He's a boy who has his hair done up. 283 00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:35.480 His face is just caked with makeup, like almost comically 284 00:19:35.559 --> 00:19:39.559 so in some of the photographs from the event, my 285 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:42.559 wife thought, oh my gosh, it's like it's. 286 00:19:42.440 --> 00:19:44.200 Almost to the point of being clown makeup. 287 00:19:45.839 --> 00:19:50.920 His hair is oddly bleached, kind of a copper color, 288 00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:57.160 coppery blonde. But he's recognizably a boy, and the physical 289 00:19:57.200 --> 00:20:00.880 advantages of being a boy in these competitions or him 290 00:20:01.519 --> 00:20:02.799 are just obvious. 291 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:08.240 He's flat chested, he's got narrow hips. 292 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:11.880 He's got broad shoulders, he's got more defined musculature than 293 00:20:12.519 --> 00:20:19.519 most of the girls. And it's sort of that, I mean, 294 00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:23.559 that's why clearly he's doing so well. It's not because 295 00:20:23.640 --> 00:20:28.359 He's got this immaculate form in any of his events, 296 00:20:28.359 --> 00:20:32.720 and I'll talk about that more later. He can kind 297 00:20:32.720 --> 00:20:37.359 of get away with sort of mediocre form because he's 298 00:20:37.400 --> 00:20:40.960 got muscles on muscles on muscles that the girls just 299 00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:41.720 don't have. 300 00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:44.240 And it's not the girl's fault. They're just girls. Girls 301 00:20:44.359 --> 00:20:46.160 musculature is different from boys. 302 00:20:48.200 --> 00:20:52.559 And it allows him, as a fairly mediocre male athlete, 303 00:20:53.240 --> 00:20:54.599 to just completely dominate. 304 00:20:55.640 --> 00:20:56.880 Now, when we return. 305 00:20:57.119 --> 00:21:01.359 I'll talk about specific events and specifics of what I saw, 306 00:21:01.359 --> 00:21:04.920 including some of the craziness that happened outside the gates 307 00:21:05.559 --> 00:21:08.160 at the track meet. All that next on the John 308 00:21:08.200 --> 00:21:13.240 Girardi Show at the California State Track and Field Meet Friday, 309 00:21:13.319 --> 00:21:16.640 and this past Friday and Saturday, the high school track 310 00:21:16.640 --> 00:21:18.920 and Field meet, in which a boy, ab Hernandez was 311 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:22.039 competing in the girls division for some of the events. 312 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:29.079 The action happening outside was about as wild as the 313 00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:31.000 action happening inside the stadium. 314 00:21:31.079 --> 00:21:33.640 So let me kind of try and paint the scene 315 00:21:33.640 --> 00:21:33.920 for you. 316 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:38.920 So Friday, Friday, the gates open at two at Veterans 317 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:43.799 Memorial Stadium at Buchanan. It is hot. It is like 318 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:49.920 one hundred plus degrees. Really stinking hot. I go into 319 00:21:49.960 --> 00:21:54.920 the stadium and I'm at the kind of the east 320 00:21:55.240 --> 00:21:59.519 end of the stadium, which is near you know, you 321 00:21:59.559 --> 00:22:02.359 can look right outside the fence and you see the 322 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:06.200 corner of Minnie Wah Wah and Knees Avenues in Clovis, 323 00:22:06.240 --> 00:22:08.720 and there's sort of that corner there, and on that 324 00:22:08.880 --> 00:22:19.799 corner were protesters, protesters against boys in girls' sports. And 325 00:22:20.160 --> 00:22:24.759 at different times they were there holding signs, having cars 326 00:22:24.799 --> 00:22:27.240 passed by honk at them. A lot of them were 327 00:22:27.279 --> 00:22:31.559 were women wearing pink clothing of various kinds, holding signs 328 00:22:31.559 --> 00:22:33.839 that say save girls sports, no boys and girls sports, 329 00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:37.440 et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Different conservative social media 330 00:22:38.279 --> 00:22:44.519 types were out there on the corner. Now, on Friday, 331 00:22:46.400 --> 00:22:52.599 a pro transgender protester showed up and was out there 332 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:54.920 on the corner. It was kind of after a lot 333 00:22:54.960 --> 00:22:59.039 of the anti transgenderism protesters had left this this pro 334 00:22:59.079 --> 00:23:05.920 transgenderis tester came out and now this pro transgenderism protester, 335 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:11.200 according to news reports after the event, goes by the 336 00:23:11.240 --> 00:23:16.079 name Ethan Kroll. Now I couldn't one hundred percent tell, 337 00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:22.839 mostly because Kroll was really covered up. I couldn't tell 338 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:26.119 if Kroll was actually a woman. I think Kroll might 339 00:23:26.119 --> 00:23:29.480 have been a woman, I'm not exactly sure. Just again, 340 00:23:30.079 --> 00:23:36.319 this person was very covered up. Kroll was outside again 341 00:23:36.440 --> 00:23:39.480 at the corner of Knees in Minneuowa, wearing all black, 342 00:23:39.799 --> 00:23:43.119 black blue jeans, a black hoodie sweatshirt with the hood 343 00:23:43.160 --> 00:23:45.359 pulled up. And again, let's remember it's like one hundred 344 00:23:45.359 --> 00:23:50.400 and three degrees, black sunglasses, a black face mask, even 345 00:23:50.480 --> 00:24:00.359 wearing black gloves, and holding a transgender pride flag sort of, 346 00:24:00.400 --> 00:24:04.200 which is I think it's like blue pink. It's five 347 00:24:04.480 --> 00:24:08.640 horizontal stripes on a flag, blue, pink, white, pink. 348 00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:12.319 Blue, because you can switch between blue and pink, which 349 00:24:12.359 --> 00:24:13.079 is hilarious. 350 00:24:13.400 --> 00:24:17.480 How the whole transgender ideology is premised on the idea 351 00:24:17.960 --> 00:24:21.799 that sex or gender is really just based in nothing 352 00:24:21.880 --> 00:24:28.400 other than very hackneyed stereotypes about the male and female sexes. 353 00:24:28.839 --> 00:24:31.960 Being a woman is just a matter of liking girly things. 354 00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:34.759 Being a man is just a matter of liking guy things. 355 00:24:35.119 --> 00:24:37.319 So being a girl means you like pink. Being a 356 00:24:37.319 --> 00:24:41.440 boy means you like blue. In spite of the fact 357 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:43.559 that like twenty or thirty years ago, feminists would have 358 00:24:43.720 --> 00:24:44.640 screamed at you for. 359 00:24:44.680 --> 00:24:49.440 Saying, just because a boy likes likes feminine things does 360 00:24:49.480 --> 00:24:52.440 not make him less of a boy. Just because a 361 00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:54.519 girl is a tomboy does not make her less of 362 00:24:54.519 --> 00:24:58.480 a woman, like which true. 363 00:24:58.519 --> 00:25:01.119 Like, I don't think you ceased to be a boy 364 00:25:01.319 --> 00:25:04.400 just because you're, you know, a three year old and 365 00:25:04.440 --> 00:25:07.640 your playing with your sister's naked barbie doll or something. 366 00:25:07.960 --> 00:25:10.799 And I don't think a girl is a boy because 367 00:25:11.319 --> 00:25:13.480 you know she's falling down in mud and wants to 368 00:25:13.519 --> 00:25:17.480 play baseball. Like no, you're You're still a boy, and 369 00:25:17.519 --> 00:25:20.839 you're still a girl. And it's based on biology and physiogogy. 370 00:25:21.119 --> 00:25:22.119 Your body. 371 00:25:23.720 --> 00:25:27.640 Is a meaningful, constitutive element of who you are, of 372 00:25:27.680 --> 00:25:36.000 your identity. Now, this person ethan crawl, This pro transgender 373 00:25:36.039 --> 00:25:42.039 protester was out there dressed all in black, holding a 374 00:25:42.119 --> 00:25:48.319 pro a transgender pride flag attached to an aluminum pole, 375 00:25:49.079 --> 00:25:51.599 so holding and it was a big flag looked like 376 00:25:51.599 --> 00:25:53.880 a like almost like a I don't know, like a 377 00:25:53.920 --> 00:25:58.039 five foot long maybe five feet by three feet or so, 378 00:25:58.319 --> 00:26:02.759 I guess flag attached to a large aluminum pole. 379 00:26:02.839 --> 00:26:04.799 Looked like it was about I don't know, four or 380 00:26:04.799 --> 00:26:05.519 five feet long. 381 00:26:08.200 --> 00:26:12.960 I saw the after effects of it, but the video 382 00:26:13.000 --> 00:26:18.240 of the event itself got posted onto x that Kroll 383 00:26:18.519 --> 00:26:23.119 got into an argument with this local conservative kind of 384 00:26:23.160 --> 00:26:28.240 activist guy named Josh Fulfer, who's very active on various 385 00:26:28.279 --> 00:26:34.400 forms of social media. Fulfer's driving by, he told me, 386 00:26:34.759 --> 00:26:38.599 with his wife, got into kind of a shouting match 387 00:26:39.119 --> 00:26:46.839 with Kroll, and Kroll goes over to the side view window, 388 00:26:47.160 --> 00:26:49.559 to the passenger window of the car and begins to 389 00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:53.039 jam the butt end of this big aluminum pole that 390 00:26:53.119 --> 00:26:57.640 the Pride flag is attached to through the window. Fulfer 391 00:26:57.839 --> 00:27:00.400 then proceeds, I actually I forget if it was or 392 00:27:00.440 --> 00:27:02.880 his wife. I think Fulford said it was him, proceeds 393 00:27:02.920 --> 00:27:08.200 to pepper spray Kroll, the pro transgender protester, gets pepper 394 00:27:08.200 --> 00:27:14.119 spray in the face. Police apparently saw the interaction. And 395 00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:16.799 you know, I'm not the best lawyer in the world, 396 00:27:16.799 --> 00:27:19.519 but if those are the facts, and I believe they are, 397 00:27:20.200 --> 00:27:27.079 that's a pretty clear cutcase of Kroll engaging in assault 398 00:27:28.680 --> 00:27:33.240 and of Fulfer engaging in reasonable self defense. 399 00:27:34.960 --> 00:27:39.240 So police arrested Kroll did not arrest. 400 00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:42.559 Fulfer, according to him, and according to news accounts, seems 401 00:27:42.599 --> 00:27:43.920