{"id":37540,"date":"2025-03-31T21:50:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T21:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/matt-walsh-to-testify-in-favor-of-california-bill-to-ban-males-from-womens-sports-this-isnt-complicated\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T21:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T21:50:43","slug":"matt-walsh-to-testify-in-favor-of-california-bill-to-ban-males-from-womens-sports-this-isnt-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/matt-walsh-to-testify-in-favor-of-california-bill-to-ban-males-from-womens-sports-this-isnt-complicated\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Walsh to testify in favor of California bill to ban males from women&#8217;s sports: &#8216;This isn\u2019t complicated&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/west\/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Republican<\/a> lawmaker is pushing to reverse a statewide policy that allows biological males to play in female sports, with The Daily Wire&#8217;s Matt Walsh slated to testify before elected officials in a Tuesday hearing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>California Assembly member Bill Essayli has introduced AB 844, which calls for a student&#8217;s participation in sports programs and activities, use of facilities, including bathrooms, locker rooms, showers and hotel accommodations, to be based on their biological sex.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In California, a law called <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1266#:~:text=A%20pupil%20shall%20be%20permitted%20to%20participate%20in%20sex-segregated%20school%20programs%20and%20activities%2C%20including%20athletic%20teams%20and%20competitions%2C%20and%20use%20facilities%20consistent%20with%20his%20or%20her%20gender%20identity%2C%20irrespective%20of%20the%20gender%20listed%20on%20the%20pupil%E2%80%99s%20records.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>AB 1266<\/u><\/a> has been in effect since 2014, giving students at the scholastic and collegiate levels the right to &#8220;participate in sex-segregated school programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, and use facilities consistent with his or her gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on the pupil\u2019s records.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/how-transgenderism-sports-shifted-2024-election-ignited-national-counterculture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>HOW TRANSGENDERISM IN SPORTS SHIFTED THE 2024 ELECTION AND IGNITED A NATIONAL COUNTERCULTURE<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe the Democrats will double down and reject this bill tomorrow,&#8221; Essayli, who has fought the Democratic-controlled state Legislature on everything from illegal immigration to soft-on-crime policies, told Fox News Digital. &#8220;They want to make a public scene out of it so they can be heroes to their progressive base.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bill will have a hearing on Tuesday via the Arts, Entertainment, Sports and Tourism Committee. Walsh, a conservative activist who has criticized the inclusion of biological males in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">women&#8217;s sports<\/a>, will testify in favor of the legislation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By restoring biological sex-based distinctions in school athletics and facilities, the bill will ensure fairness in competition, as well as safeguarding student privacy and dignity, according to a fact sheet provided to Fox News Digital. It would also provide clarity to school administrators and staff by establishing a clear and enforceable statewide policy and protect the integrity of Title IX.<\/p>\n<p>Also slated to speak on Tuesday will be Taylor Starling, a high school cross-country runner at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, who lost her spot on the varsity team earlier this season to a transgender transfer student.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/father-female-runner-forced-compete-trans-athlete-shares-heartbreaking-experience\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>FATHER OF FEMALE RUNNER FORCED TO COMPETE WITH TRANS ATHLETE SHARES FURY OF SITUATION: &#8216;CAN&#8217;T EVEN DIGEST IT&#8217;<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Walsh, a conservative activist, has pushed back against child sex-change surgeries and treatments, as well as allowing men to play women&#8217;s sports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Girls shouldn\u2019t have to compete with boys or change next to them in locker rooms\u2014this isn\u2019t complicated,&#8221; Walsh, a podcast host for the Daily Wire and creator of the &#8220;What Is a Woman&#8221; documentary, told Fox News Digital. &#8220;Even Gavin Newsom, after sniffing the political wind, now admits it\u2019s unfair\u2014let\u2019s see if California Democrats can stop playing pretend and follow his sudden rediscovery of basic truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>California Code of Regulations section 4910(k) defines gender as: &#8220;A person\u2019s actual sex or perceived sex and includes a person\u2019s perceived identity, appearance or behavior, whether or not that identity, appearance, or behavior is different from that traditionally associated with a person\u2019s sex at birth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/maine-residents-agree-keeping-trans-athletes-out-girls-womens-sports-poll-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MAINE RESIDENTS AGREE WITH KEEPING TRANS ATHLETES OUT OF GIRLS&#8217; AND WOMEN&#8217;S SPORTS, POLL SHOWS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Bylaw 300.D. mirrors the Education Code, stating: &#8220;All students should have the opportunity to participate in CIF activities in a manner that is consistent with their gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on a student\u2019s records.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>California <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/gavin-newsom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gov. Gavin Newsom<\/a>, a Democrat, has come out against allowing biological males to compete against females, prompting backlash from many progressives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gavin Newsom gets it on this issue,&#8221; said Eassayli. &#8220;He&#8217;s gotten the wake-up call. He&#8217;s found a new narrative now and he agrees with us that it&#8217;s unfair for women and girls to have boys play on their teams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eassayli noted that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-of-representatives\/republicans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republican lawmakers<\/a> are almost paralyzed when it comes to making policy in Sacramento, the state capital, given that the Democrats control both chambers of state government with a super majority.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Common sense doesn&#8217;t prevail in Sacramento,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of things we do up there that I think alot of people think defy common sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Fox News Digital&#8217;s Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: A California Republican lawmaker is pushing to reverse a statewide policy that allows biological males to play in female sports, with The Daily Wire&#8217;s Matt Walsh slated to testify before elected officials in a Tuesday hearing.\u00a0 California Assembly member Bill Essayli has introduced AB 844, which calls for a student&#8217;s participation in sports programs &#8230; <a title=\"Matt Walsh to testify in favor of California bill to ban males from women&#8217;s sports: &#8216;This isn\u2019t complicated&#8217;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/matt-walsh-to-testify-in-favor-of-california-bill-to-ban-males-from-womens-sports-this-isnt-complicated\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Matt Walsh to testify in favor of California bill to ban males from women&#8217;s sports: &#8216;This isn\u2019t complicated&#8217;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}