This competition <\/a>is drawing renewed debate from some coaches and parents about how transgender athletes should be placed in girls competitions.<\/p>\nTransgender athlete AB Hernandez, a varsity and senior jumper, took a majority of the top scores in Clovis in every category she competed in and advanced to finals on Saturday, May 30.<\/p>\n
The results raised concerns among some who believe Hernandez has a biological advantage.<\/p>\n
Mark Hicks, a track coach, said he believes transgender athletes should be allowed to compete, but that final placements should be considered with and without their scores.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven though you have hormones and everything that are changed, you still have a male and a female body and the bone structure and muscle structure is still a male structure,\u201d Hicks said.<\/p>\n
The qualifying round included some of the best track and field athletes in the state and featured a variety of events, including jumps, vaults and running.<\/p>\n
Sarah Collins, a track mom, is a former top runner who once broke her own school\u2019s records.<\/p>\n
\u201cI used to break ribbons and it\u2019s a very exciting feeling,\u201d Collins said.<\/p>\n
Collins said competing against a transgender woman would have changed her experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would have never broke a record, I would have never saw first place,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
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The championship round of the competition will continue Saturday at 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLOVIS, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A transgender high school athlete led the field again Friday, May 29, in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-338765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}