{"id":87481,"date":"2025-12-09T10:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/87481\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:33:08","slug":"kern-county-school-board-members-face-recall-over-sports-resolution-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/87481\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County school board members face recall over sports resolution vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) The Kern County High School District&#8217;s recent resolution supporting fairness in women&#8217;s sports has sparked controversy, leading to a recall effort against two board members. <\/p>\n<p>The resolution, passed in August with a narrow three-to-two vote, aligns with the Trump administration&#8217;s stance but contradicts California law, which allows transgender athletes to compete in women&#8217;s sports.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kern County school board members face recall over sports resolution vote (KBFX)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6a9a6089-64c7-4cf7-a105-e970d72afc51-audience.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kern County school board members face recall over sports resolution vote (KBFX)<\/p>\n<p>During a Monday night meeting, community member Penny Lepisto submitted a notice to recall board members David Manriquez and Steven Rodrigue. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My reasoning for the recall is that they voted to allow biological boys to play in girls&#8217; sports. That\u2019s one of the main reasons. That was the tip off. That was the icing on the cake for the recall,&#8221; Lepisto said. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kern County school board members face recall over sports resolution vote (KBFX)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/201396e9-5413-4be2-b503-da644d36b076-meeting.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kern County school board members face recall over sports resolution vote (KBFX)<\/p>\n<p>She claims significant community support, stating, &#8220;It was very easy to get the signatures I needed to get this moving forward.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kern County school board members face recall over sports resolution vote (KBFX)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/e19076f4-a916-4079-be06-af705e047b56-penny.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kern County school board members face recall over sports resolution vote (KBFX)<\/p>\n<p>Reverend Angelo Frazier, another meeting attendee, echoed Lepisto&#8217;s sentiments, saying, &#8220;Boys in girls&#8217; sports? No. This doesn&#8217;t require a lot of meditation. This is obvious.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) The Kern County High School District&#8217;s recent resolution supporting fairness in women&#8217;s sports has sparked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-87481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87481","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=87481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}