{"id":2403572,"date":"2025-02-18T07:06:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T12:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-forces-girls-into-basketball-playoff-with-boy\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T07:08:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T12:08:02","slug":"california-forces-girls-into-basketball-playoff-with-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-forces-girls-into-basketball-playoff-with-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"California Forces Girls Into Basketball Playoff With Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-forces-girls-into-basketball-playoff-with-boy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2403572&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-democratic-governor-urges-high-schools-and-youth-sports-to-voluntarily-suspend-in-person-activities\/\" title=\"Michigan Democratic Governor Urges High ...s And Youth Sports To Voluntarily Suspend In-Person Activities\">state basketball tournaments<\/a> in the U.S.\u2064 and highlights a \u2063specific case in California where president\u200c Donald trumps\u200b executive order aims to keep boys out of girls&#8217; sports. The order seeks to\u2062 ensure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/17-gop-state-attorneys-general-say-bidens-title-ix-rewrite-jeopardizes-womens-progress-safety\/\" title=\"17 GOP State Attorneys General Say Biden\u2019s Title IX Rewrite Jeopardizes ...\u2019s Progress, Safety\">fair athletic opportunities<\/a> for women and girls by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-sen-murphy-suggests-withholding-federal-funds-for-police-from-states-that-dont-enforce-all-gun-control-laws\/\" title=\"Dem Sen. Murphy Suggests Withholding Federal Funds for Police From States That Don&#039;t Enforce All Gun Control Laws\">withholding federal funds<\/a> from \u2064institutions that violate this principle.Though, California&#8217;s public-private partnership system, particularly\u2063 through the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF), complicates this matter. The San Francisco Waldorf School&#8217;s girls&#8217;\u2062 basketball team, which includes a transgender player named Henry hanlon who excels significantly in the sport, is set to face Cornerstone Christian School, a much smaller and less\u2062 affluent \u2064Christian \u200dschool. <\/p>\n<p>The article points out the disparity between \u2063the two schools, \u2062such as tuition costs and resources, emphasizing\u2063 that Waldorf&#8217;s affluent background gives it a competitive edge.\u2063 It\u2063 mentions \u2064other schools&#8217; objections to allowing Henry to compete and warns about potential sanctions for those\u2062 who refuse. However, due to \u2063the president&#8217;s executive order, Cornerstone has legal recourse, as investigations into California&#8217;s handling\u2063 of transgender\u2063 athletes and compliance with federal regulations are \u2064ongoing.The piece is \u200dauthored by Scott Yenor, a political science professor \u200band director at the Claremont Institute.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>State basketball tournaments are underway around the country. President Donald Trump&rsquo;s recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/02\/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports\/\">executive order<\/a> is supposed to keep boys out of girls&rsquo; sports. Instead, California&rsquo;s defiance will enable the rich, beautiful people of one school to unfairly dominate Christians from a small school in playoffs this Saturday &mdash; unless it&rsquo;s stopped.<\/p>\n<p>The president&rsquo;s order would withhold and rescind &ldquo;all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities.&rdquo; While the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF), which runs California&rsquo;s postseason tournaments, appears to be a private organization, it is a typical private-public partnership that masks public authority.<\/p>\n<p>Public schools join the CIF. Representatives of California&rsquo;s Department of Education <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cifstate.org\/governance\/constitution\/Article_3.pdf\">sit on<\/a> its board by charter. School board members make up its board. Many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cifstate.org\/sponsors\/index\">sponsors<\/a> are federal grantees. CIF <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cifncs.org\/governance\/financial_information\/E1_2024-25_REVISED_Budget_NEW-income.pdf\">received<\/a> Covid money. Schools in the CIF receive federal funds for disabled students and free-reduced school lunches, among many other things. These schools are sponsoring boys to participate in girls&rsquo; sports&mdash;and state authority abets it.<\/p>\n<p>Not every school in CIF receives federal funds, though. Tucked in at the border of Saint Francis Woods&rsquo; historic neighborhood and residential West Portal lies the tony San Francisco <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfwaldorf.org\/\">Waldorf School<\/a>. This mostly white and Asian school uses the Waldorf educational style, a progressive system developed by the Austrian occultist and clairvoyant <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rudolf_Steiner\">Rudolf Steiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tech executives, executive vice presidents, venture capitalists, and university leaders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfwaldorf.org\/about\/board-of-trustees\">constitute<\/a> the Waldorf School&rsquo;s board of trustees. The school&rsquo;s website boasts an &ldquo;Equity and Inclusion&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfwaldorf.org\/about\/equity-and-inclusion\">page<\/a>. It says the Waldorf school &ldquo;strive[s] to sustain a demographic that reflects the diversity of the Bay Area.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Sixty-three percent of Waldorf&rsquo;s student body is white. Eighty-seven percent of Waldorf families live in a metro area where the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">minimum recommended annual family income<\/a> is $240,000. Only the right kind of people can afford its $59,000-per-year tuition.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco Waldorf School also boasts a girls&rsquo; basketball team that has qualified for CIF&rsquo;s North Coast Section Division 6 girls&rsquo; basketball playoffs. The team&rsquo;s best player is named <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/icons_women\/status\/1748474043538522169\">Henry Hanlon<\/a>, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/san-francisco\/san-francisco-waldorf-wolverines\/athletes\/henry-hanlon\/basketball\/girls\/stats\/?careerid=tej6nus98vkl5\">averages<\/a> 20 points per game and stands head and shoulders above the girls on the court. Outkick released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/sports\/california-transgender-basketball-player-girls-team-waldorf\">a video of Henry<\/a>, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/first-openly-transgender-athlete-will-compete-in-olympics-after-dominating-female-weightlifting-competitions\/\" title=\"First Openly Transgender Athlete Will Compete In Olympics After Dominating Female Weightlifting Competitions\">openly transgender athlete<\/a>, jumping for a rebound with the kind of explosiveness found in the top 1 percent of women&rsquo;s athletes but common among boys.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Insanity&#128680;&#128680;Last night, male player, Henry Hanlon, scored 29 points to lead San Francisco Waldorf High School girls&rsquo; basketball team.<\/p>\n<p>Jewish Community High School played a valiant game against a team with the very evident unfair advantage of a male player. Final score 59-33.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VakAlnU3R9\">pic.twitter.com\/VakAlnU3R9<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Beth Bourne (@bourne_beth2345) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bourne_beth2345\/status\/1879562038290350110?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Waldorf&rsquo;s opponent in the CIF playoffs is a small Christian school, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cornerstonechristianschool.net\/\">Cornerstone Christian<\/a>, from Antioch, California, a working-class Bay Area suburb at the edge of the East Bay. A local church runs Cornerstone. Its annual tuition is $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>Cornerstone&rsquo;s website doesn&rsquo;t boast of a $8.2 million fundraising effort to build a gym, like Waldorf&rsquo;s. There is no &ldquo;Diversity and Inclusion&rdquo; section on their website. Movers and shakers do not sit on Cornerstone&rsquo;s board.<\/p>\n<p>Yet this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/games\/2-22-2025\/girls-basketball-24-25\/cornerstone-christian-vs-san-francisco-waldorf.htm?c=U9POQRvwQEOfbmyc34UiVA#tab=matchup&amp;schoolid=\">weekend<\/a>, despite the president&rsquo;s executive order, Cornerstone&rsquo;s administrators, parents, and athletes must either put their daughters in jeopardy by competing against Henry and the powerful elites who run the San Francisco Waldorf School or face the wrath of the California Interscholastic Federation.<\/p>\n<p>Other schools have objected to Henry&rsquo;s participation. Henry also played volleyball for Waldorf. When Stone Ridge Christian School refused to play against Henry&rsquo;s team, the CIF <a href=\"https:\/\/wpde.com\/news\/nation-world\/christian-school-stone-ridge-forfeits-from-volleyball-playoff-game-over-trans-athlete-competing-san-francisco-waldorf-california-interscholastic-federation-semifinal-game\">responded<\/a> with chapter and verse: &ldquo;Any team that withdraws from CIF playoffs is subject to sanctions at both the Section and State levels.&rdquo; Alliance Defending Freedom is on <a href=\"https:\/\/adflegal.org\/article\/christian-school-may-face-punishment-for-protecting-its-student-athletes\/\">the case<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s executive order gives Cornerstone a recourse Stone Ridge did not have in the fall. Investigations of California schools are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2025-02-13\/trump-dept-of-education-investigation-cif-transgender-athletes-ncaa-title-ix\">underway<\/a>. Speedy action from the U.S. Department of Education&rsquo;s Office of Civil Rights would protect a vulnerable school like Cornerstone from the Waldorf goliath.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Scott Yenor is senior director of state coalitions at the Claremont Institute&rsquo;s Center for the American Way of Life and a professor of political science at Boise State University.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State basketball tournaments are happening nationwide. Trump&#8217;s executive order aims to keep boys out of girls&#8217; sports, but California&#8217;s defiance may allow a wealthy school to unfairly overpower a small Christian school in the playoffs this Saturday unless action is taken<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1269,"featured_media":2403573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/trans-bb.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4045,32547,50542,13462],"class_list":["post-2403572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-california","tag-gender-equality","tag-girls-basketball","tag-playoff"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/trans-bb.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2403572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403576,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403572\/revisions\/2403576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2403573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2403572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2403572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2403572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}