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Victory for fairness in girls’ sports

July 6, 2026

Shannon Kessler

OPINION by SHANNON KESSLER

Last Tuesday, June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a landmark ruling upholding state laws in West Virginia and Idaho that protect women and girls’ sports by ensuring competition is based on biological sex. This is a huge win for fairness, safety, and opportunity for our daughters.

As a mom, former athlete, and founder of Save Girls’ Sports Central Coast, I’ve fought tirelessly alongside so many other parents because biological males competing in girls’ sports steals scholarships, titles, records, and safety from our daughters.

No amount of ideology changes basic biology or physiology.

I’ve heard directly from families on the Central Coast whose daughters have been displaced, injured, or forced out of the sports they love. That is not fairness — it is the erasure of female achievement.

This decision affirms what we’ve always known: Title IX and common sense demand protecting female sports categories. States can — and should — keep women’s sports for biological females. It’s a victory for every girl who trains hard, competes with grit, and deserves a level playing field.

The Supreme Court, in Justice Kavanaugh’s majority opinion, rightly recognized that separating teams by biological sex is consistent with both the Constitution and federal law.

To the brave girls, families, and advocates who have stood up despite enormous pressure: thank you. Your courage made this moment possible. Here on the Central Coast — in communities from Arroyo Grande to Salinas Valley and beyond — we will continue this fight.

As your Republican nominee for Assembly District 30, I will bring common-sense leadership to Sacramento that puts our daughters first, defends parental rights, and rejects extreme ideologies that harm girls and women. We will work to enshrine these protections in state policy so no California girl has to sit on the sidelines in her own sport.

Fairness isn’t hate — it’s justice. Our daughters deserve nothing less.

Shannon Kessler is the Republican nominee for California State Assembly District 30, Founder of Save Girls’ Sports Central Coast and a longtime advocate for Children and Central Coast families.

 


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16 Comments

Contrary to other commentators on this post, this is a major issue that defines the perverted ideology of the left. If he/she/they/it can’t discern between a male and a female, then he/she/they/it isn’t qualified to run for dog catcher.


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I am not opposed to this new legislation, in theory or in practice. My concern is whether this is really the biggest issue we are facing right now. How many times has this come up and been a problem? Meanwhile, we have a pedophile rapist in the white house who just admitted to benefitting to the tune of several billion dollars in the past year, admits to giving his sons confidential information so they can also engage in insider trading, a war that he has claimed to end 39 times, rising prices across the board, military being deployed domestically, and white supremecists marching in our capitol on our 250th anniversary. Should our primary focus really be on trans kids in sports? I’m fine if we address it, but my god we have much bigger issues that are being ignored entirely.


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Geez, turn off MSNBC and go outside for a while…


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I only read Reuters, APNews, and local news. Are you saying that the other issues I raised don’t exist? How many people do you personally know that have been affected by a trans student in sports? How many people do you personally know that are paying higher gas prices because Dipshit McGee started a war with Iran? Funny that gas prices were such an issue when Biden was in office, but not an issue when Orange Mussolini is.


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Feel the same way 100%. An issue that effects .0001% of people in this great country takes up way to much bandwitdth when everything else in this country has taken a shit. Curious to know what kind of athlete she was? College athlete? Professional?


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Yeah right; there’s about as much proof that you n Flipside are pedos as there is that Trump is. Best either bust out some real evidence – as opposed to Russia-gate style smears n innuendos – or just let go of your TDS rantings.


As for boys in girls sports, locker rooms, and bathrooms, all sane people recognize this is a terrible idea, and a terrible injustice to girls and women. Pity that so many Californians and leftists are not sane…


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I am not named in the Epstein files more than 38,000 times. There are not credible allegations and lawsuits against my for raping children. I didn’t brag on cameral about sneaking in to see underage girls naked in the dressing room of the beauty pageant I bought. Can’t speak for Flipside, but I’m pretty confident he/she also is in the clear. Why do you continue to defend a pedophile and rapist and conman? Is your racism that strong?


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Do you actually lie ALL the time? Trump ain’t mentioned in the Epstein files 38,000 times – google it. It’s a little over a thousand times, all in the context of Epstein n his buddies talking bout Trump in innocuous conversations – EVERYBODY talks bout Trump! YOU talk bout him constantly, n insist on diverting all conversations about anything but Trump back to Trump – classic TDS.


The rest of your post is utter frothing ravings about what most understand as jokes, and I’m guessing mebbe you threw in the Racist card cuz you got absolutely nothing of substance to say?…


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Do you lie ALL the time?! Trump is named in the E-files about 1,000 times – google it. And all the ones I’ve seen are innocuous conversations bout Trump between Epstein n his buddies. EVERYONE talks bout Trump – YOU talk about him constantly, and always divert any and all conversations about anything else back to Trump. CLASSIC TDS, man.


And the rest of your post above is frothing ravings – “ credible@ allegations of child rape? Your utter failure to resist weaponizing remarks most know are jokes? More Russia-gate BS from fanatics like you. I’m guessing you threw in the Racist Card cuz you got nothing better? Pretty sad…


Now how about considering, if only for an instant, the injustice being done to our girls and women because so many folks like you will sacrifice their dignity and safety for some twisted ideology?


Mebbe then you can get back to yer hating on Trump n all that don’t think like you – which except on both coasts, is pretty much everyone.


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“There are bigger issues” is not an argument against addressing this one. It is a deflection.


Almost every problem can be minimized by pointing to something worse. By that logic, nobody should fix a leaky roof because cancer exists.


Government deals with thousands of issues at once. We can care about inflation, corruption, war, and public safety while also addressing fairness in girls’ sports. These things are not mutually exclusive.


The existence of larger problems does not make this issue imaginary, irrelevant, or unworthy of debate.


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Did I ever one say not to address this? No, I didn’t. I said we have bigger issues that also need to be addressed. See how they right creates these false choices? If I say we need to keep pedophiles and rapists out of the White House, you try to turn that into me wanting trans kids in sports.


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Nobody said you want trans-identifying athletes in girls’ sports. That is not the argument.


The point is that “there are bigger issues” does not actually address the issue being discussed. Your original comment framed this as if focusing on girls’ sports somehow prevents people from also caring about corruption, crime, inflation, war, or public safety.


That is the false choice.


We can address more than one problem at a time. Saying this issue deserves attention is not the same thing as saying every other issue should be ignored.


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If it happened but one time, it is a problem.


But I’ll use your argument: “How many times has this come up and been a problem?”


It’s obviously enough of a problem, for the left to legislate special accommodations, regulations, laws, and the illegal altering of Title IX, so boys and men with a mental dysfunction, that believe they are girls or women and deserve legal authority to ignore 55 million years of basic biology, easy to understand common sense, and the ancient history of human morality.


Pretending you are the opposite sex is fine. You do you. But, do NOT force me, my family, or my children to appease your delusions.


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The only delusions here are you thinking this is a bigger issue than the president raping children.


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The difference is; we have solid proof that boys with mental problems are allowed in girls locker rooms.


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Amazing what people will tolerate being done to their kids, in order to provide them with an inferior education.


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