Another day, another California girls' track meet where actual girls get shoved aside so a biological male can collect hardware. This time it was AB Hernandez of Jurupa Valley High School dominating the field in Moorpark, California — winning the long jump by more than a foot, the triple jump by nearly two feet, and tying for first in the high jump. The real girls? They got "consolation prizes."

Let that sink in. Consolation prizes. At their own meet. In their own sport.

Hernandez wasn't the only male athlete stealing the spotlight from girls who've been training all year. Over at the Central Section CIF D2 Championships, Antonio "Alice" Birrueta of Santa Maria High School competed in the girls' 800-meter race. At least one coach had enough sense to instruct Birrueta to use the boys' bathroom — but apparently not enough sense to keep him out of the girls' event entirely.

The California Interscholastic Federation — the CIF — knows this is a problem. You know how we can tell? Because they created a "pilot program" where biological girls who finish behind transgender athletes are automatically declared "co-champions." That's their solution. Not banning boys from girls' sports. Not protecting female athletes. No — just hand out extra trophies and pretend nobody notices the six-foot kid on the podium.

Co-champions. That's like giving someone a participation trophy for getting robbed.

Think about what this means for a girl like Gwnneth Mureika, who actually competed against Hernandez. You train all year. You run sprints in the rain. You skip parties to hit the weight room. You show up on meet day ready to compete — and you lose to someone with every biological advantage that puberty hands a male body. Then some bureaucrat at the CIF Southern Section pats you on the head with a "co-champion" ribbon and tells you to smile.

Meanwhile, in states where adults are actually in charge, this insanity doesn't fly. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been winning legal battles to keep boys out of girls' sports. Other red states have passed laws that make the California approach look like exactly what it is: institutional cowardice dressed up as compassion.

The Trump administration has made its position clear on this issue, and every parent in California who watches their daughter lose to a boy at her own track meet knows which side has it right.

Here's what the CIF and every school administrator enabling this nonsense won't say out loud: they know it's unfair. The "co-champion" program is the proof. You don't create a consolation system unless you know the main system is broken. They just don't have the spine to fix it.

As RedState reported, the girls got consolation prizes. In 2026. In America. Because the adults in California would rather sacrifice a teenage girl's moment on the podium than risk a mean tweet from the gender police.

Every one of those girls deserved better. And every one of them will remember who fought for them — and who didn't.