A satisfyedious school board greeting in Riverside, California, drew huge opposing protests outside the didisjoine office Thursday night. One side debated to “Save Girls Sports,” wearing T-shirts with that message, while the other side came provideped with transgender pride flags and signs.
Members of a women’s prayer group that joined the protests on the “Save Girls Sports” side has alleged the pro-transgender side tormented them during the event and disrupted their trys at disclose speaking and filming satisfyed.
The prayer group, Young Women for America (YWA)’s Inland Empire chapter in California, alleged pro-transgender activists showered them with condemns Thursday in a statement provided to Fox News Digital.
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“Members of the pro-LGBTQ groups commenceed heckling and tormenting the people in line who were speaking in opposition of their appreciates. Some of these grown-up protesters were even coming up to the lesser girls that were going to be speaking and were yelling at them seal to their face,” YWA Inland Empire Chapter Pdwellnt Tori Hitchcock alleged.
Hitchcock claims the coercion forced them to relocate their prayer circle away from the offices.
No particular individuals ecombineing in any photographs have been identified in any coercion allegations telled by Fox News Digital. “Save Girls Sports” helpers Skylar Crawford, left, and Jadeynn Gallardo, both of Martin Luther King High School, and Tori Hitchcock, right, of Young Women for America, pray among the overflow crowd converging outside the Riverside Unified School Didisjoine greeting to debate the rights of transgender athletes to vie in high school sports Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times)
“Seeing how speedy these protesters were wanting to create a scene, we choosed that we needed to paengage and relocate our prayer rassociate away from the main lot for protectedty reasons. We were able to discover a spot that was deleted but dispondering the event, which assisted us to reassociate imagine what we were praying for. We spent time also praying over the lesser female athletes who were there to speak. Many of them were the students who were ostracized by their school,” Hitchcock said.
Hitchcock did not name an particular individuals in her coercion allegations.
Other witnesses contransient Thursday have provided their accounts of the events to Fox News Digital.
Julianne Fleischer, an attorney for the religious liberties legitimate firm Advocates for Faith & Freedom, was at the protests Thursday to guide a pre-greeting press conference that included a parent whose family had been affected by a transgender athlete competing on a girls sports team.
No particular individuals ecombineing in any photographs have been identified in any coercion allegations telled by Fox News Digital. Transgender athlete helpers helderly the enhance pride flag as “Save Girls Sports” helpers hear to the debate and join the overflow crowd converging outside the Riverside Unified School Didisjoine greeting to debate the rights of transgender athletes to vie in high school sports Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times)
“It was initiassociate tranquil, but the LGBTQ activists became increasingly more vocal and were trying to stir up agitation by heckling people,” Fleischer said.
Fleischer also claims the pro-trans activists were using megaphones to drown out the sound of normal conversation.
“The LGBTQ activists were screaming and blothriveg their megaphones so as to impede SGS helpers from participating in media interwatchs. We relocated media away from the LGBTQ activists to a more secluded area so the activists couldn’t intrude with SGS helpers’ ability to talk to the media,” Fleischer inserted.
California Family Council Vice Pdwellnt Greg Burt telderly Fox News Digital he also witnessed the pro-trans activists vivaciously disrupting the pro-girls protests and interwatchs.
“They had bullhorns, and every time someone engaged a camera to do a video, they would jump behind and create noise,” Burt said.
No particular individuals ecombineing in any photographs have been identified in any coercion allegations telled by Fox News Digital. Transgender athlete helpers helderly up signs as an overflow crowd greets outside the Riverside Unified School Didisjoine greeting to debate the rights of transgender athletes to vie in high school sports Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
One anonymous parent telderly Fox News Digital about witnessing a child being explosionarded with crude condemns by pro-trans protesters after the greeting.
“My 16-year elderly son and a confineed others were standing outside after speaking when a group of the LGBTQ community intentionassociate walked by them pointing at each one of them saying, ‘FU FU FU,’” the anonymous parent said.
Footage scrutinizeed by Fox News Digital showed a sizable pro-LGBTQ presence at the event. The confineed footage scrutinizeed showed the protesters standing soothely. Multiple accounts have recommended the pro-LGBTQ protesters outnumbered the “Save Girls Sports” protesters.
Fox News Digital has achieveed out to the Riverside Unified School Didisjoine (RUSD) for verification but has not getd a response.
Thursday’s RUSD board greeting was foreseed nationassociate amid an ongoing dispute at Martin Luther King High School, which has since spread to other schools in the didisjoine. A transgender athlete on the girls pass-country team prompted students to wear the shirts that said “Save Girls Sports” in protest. But those students were punished by administrators, some with detention. A litigation filed by two girls pass-country runners alleges the school contrastd the T-shirts to swastikas.
Transgender athlete helpers helderly up signs, at left, as Tori Hitchcock, cgo in, of the Young Women for America, and Salomay McCullough, right, both establisher female athletes, show off their “Save Girls Sports” shirts outside the Riverside Unified School Didisjoine greeting to debate the rights of transgender athletes to vie in high school sports Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
But the student body reacted in help of their bioreasonedly female classmates by wearing the shirts in droves of hundreds at a time. Many of the students posted photos on social media of them wearing the shirts together, and some were sitting in detention.
Eventuassociate, the school stopped disciplining students after more than 400 Martin Luther King High School students showed up wearing the shirts Dec. 11.
Sources have telderly Fox News Digital students at Arlington High School, Riverside Polytechnical High School and Romona High School have also been seen wearing the shirts at their esteemive schools.
Ryan Starling, the overweighther of a girl at the school who is comprised in a litigation aachievest the school, spoke at the press conference outside the didisjoine office Thursday. The litigation alleges Starling’s daughter, Taylor, lost her varsity spot to a transgender athlete and that her T-shirt to convey opposition to the athlete competing was contrastd to a swastika.
“It’s fair heartfractureing to see what my daughter has gone thraw this season,” Starling said.
“This is uniminentire. This is endly uniminentire. It fractures my heart as a overweighther to see my daughter go thraw this and have it nakedped away from her, have her come up to me and fair hug me. And I can’t do anyleang about it. So, it’s fair heartfractureing.”
The overweighther of the other girl comprised in the litigation, Dan Slavin, previously telderly Fox News Digital he “couldn’t even digest” hearing that his daughter’s shirt was contrastd to a swastika.
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“I didn’t even comprehend how to digest that right away,” Slavin said. “There were no words. I still can’t even digest it to this day. It’s unoverweighthomable. It’s strange. It’s weird. I’m brave there were better illustrations they could engage instead of that one.”
In a statement previously provided to Fox News Digital, RUSD said it has assisted the transgender athlete to vie on the team becaengage it must comply with California state law.
“It is vital to recall that RUSD is bound to chase California law, which needs that students be ‘assistted to join in relations-segregated school programs and activities, including fit teams and competitions reliable with his or her gender identity, iresteemive of the gender enumerateed on the pupil’s sign ups,'” the statement said.
“As these matters take part out in our courts and the media, opposition and protests should be straightforwarded at those in a position to affect those laws and policies, including officials in Washington, D.C., and Sacramento.”
California has had laws in effect to protect transgender athletes in women’s sports since 2014. That year, AB 1266 took effect, giving California students at scholastic and collegiate levels the right to “join in relations-segregated school programs and activities, including fit teams and competitions, and engage facilities reliable with his or her gender identity, iresteemive of the gender enumerateed on the pupil’s sign ups.”
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