A school board meeting ended in a parade of competing hysterical tirades worried parents and transgender activists Thursday night amid a national controversy surrounding a transgender athlete on the cross country team.
The Riverside Unified School District (RUSD) hosted one Board meeting at his office in Riverside, California, to address concerns about Martin Luther King High School’s student-athletes and the punishment of students for wearing T-shirts that read “Save Girls’ Sports.”
The meeting came after weeks of preparation as hundreds of students from Martin Luther King High School and other schools in the district wore the shirts against the school’s wishes. Every Wednesday, hundreds of students gathered to wear the T-shirts, and many were jailed for wearing them, until schools stopped disciplining students the week of December 11th.
Ahead of the meeting, competing protests between pro-transgender activists and “Save Girls’ Sports” activists gathered outside the RUSD district office.
At the start of the meeting, speakers were asked to share their thoughts on the situation. Many of the parents who opposed the district allowing the trans athlete to compete with girls came with the T-shirts themselves.
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One of the first parents to speak out against the district allowing transgender inclusion was a mother identified only as Sandy R. The mother hysterically complained about her name being revealed to the pro-trans activists outside the meeting room. She feared being “doxxed” for her attitude and said she planned to file a harassment complaint.
Sandy then criticized the entire board for ignoring Title IX in favor of California state law.
Another parent pointed out that the school district’s science curriculum even includes textbooks that teach the genetic differences between biological males and females. The mother pulled out the school’s ninth grade biology textbook and read a passage that explained that men are born with the XY chromosomes while women are born with XX chromosomes.
She then held up photos of the students who were punished for wearing T-shirts that said “XX (does not correspond to) XY.”
“This is what you did to the students who wore the shirt I am wearing tonight because they were asserting a biological fact that is in your textbook, that is part of your curriculum. Will we tape the textbooks next? “Is this what’s happening?” “We’re not going to teach science?” she screamed. “You’re denying biological facts to avoid hurting other people’s feelings, and that’s not okay!”
The mother then pointed to an allegation in a recent lawsuit filed by two of the school’s cross-country runners that the school compared their T-shirts to swastikas.
Another mother, identified only as Colleen, shouted even before she approached the podium, criticizing the board for allowing pro-trans activists in the office to fuel pro-trans sentiment and comparing it to theirs Dealing with young men who want to switch to women’s sports to gain a competitive advantage.
“Your job is to teach these people self-control, and you’re not doing that!” she shouted. “It’s all about their self-esteem and you’re setting them up for failure! The world is not given to you. The world won’t adapt because ‘I can’t succeed in this sport, so.’ Now I will join this sport because I can do it better there. Teach these children self-control!
Later, a mother named Maria Karillo began her speech by asking all the children in the room to leave the room. She then recited sexually explicit lines from school-approved books available at RUSD middle schools to make her point before criticizing the school for calling the concerned parents “agitators, MAGA troublemakers.”
“We are parents here who care about our children, and we are using our constitutional right to speak to you, the leaders of our community, about our children’s issues,” she said. “I want to know why the teachers union is sending us emails because they call us cruel.”
A mother named Patty Clauda, who spoke Spanish with the assistance of an English translator, began her tirade by mocking the school board for not knowing the difference between a man and a woman before expressing her concern meant that girls had to share locker rooms with biological men.
“You change in front of men!” she said through the translator.
Students at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, wear T-shirts that say “Save Girls’ Sports” to protest a trans athlete on the cross country team. (Courtesy of Sophia Lorey)
At the end of her tirade, Clauda forwent the use of her translator to speak directly to the board in English and screamed at the top of her lungs.
“What actually concerns me even more is the fact that there are real biological women standing before me and instead of standing up for the young ladies in this school district, you are allowing these young ladies to be abused, harassed and discriminated against! You are creating a hostile environment for these children’s education! Shame on you all!” Clauda screamed.
Several concerned parents called for Superintendent Renee Hill’s resignation in their respective speeches.
At one point, a female athlete was even given the opportunity to speak and became emotional as she expressed that as a biological woman she had no realistic chance of competing with biological men.
“In no universe will the most committed woman beat the most committed man,” she said, choking up.
But pro-transgender activists were also given the opportunity to speak. Several speakers who expressed support for trans inclusion thanked the board for allowing the trans athlete to compete with girls and encouraged it to continue to support and protect this athlete.
One transactivist event even went so far as to make the false claim that the XY chromosome is disappearing from the human gene pool and that all humans will eventually be born with the XX chromosome.
Many of the pro-trans speeches were met with loud cheers and abandonment of LGBTQ pride flags by those in attendance.
California has had laws protecting transgender athletes in women’s sports since 2014. AB 1266 went into effectwhich grants California students at the school and college levels the right “to participate in gender-segregated school programs and activities, including sports teams and competitions, and to use facilities consistent with their gender identity, regardless of the gender listed on the student’s records.” “
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In a statement previously sent to Fox News Digital, RUSD said it allowed the transgender athlete to compete on the team because it must abide by California state law.
“It is important to remember that RUSD is bound by California law, which requires students to be permitted to participate in gender-segregated school programs and activities, including sports teams and competitions, consistent with their gender identity, regardless of listed gender .’ on the student’s records,'” the statement said.
The school said those upset about this should direct their anger at state and federal lawmakers.
“As these matters play out in our courts and in the media, opposition and protests should be directed at those in a position to influence these laws and policies, including officials in Washington, DC and Sacramento,” it said Explanation.
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