A high school girls’ volleyball team forfeited a California state playoff game — and their season — over a trans-identifying male player on the opposing team, the girls’ school said last week, calling the decision “heartbreaking.” The Christian high school, Stone Ridge Christian in Merced, about a two hour drive east of San Jose, announced Friday that they would forfeit Saturday’s game against San Francisco Waldorf. “Unfortunately, we were just informed that our opponent, San Francisco Waldorf, has a male athlete playing for their team,” Stone Ridge Christian administrator Julie Fagundes wrote in a message to families. The school was clear about why they made the decision to forfeit. “At SRC, we believe God’s Word is authoritative and infallible. It is Truth. And as Genesis makes clear, God wonderfully and immutably created each person as male or female. We do not believe sex is changeable and we do not intend to participate in events that send a different message,” Stone Ridge Christian wrote. The Stone Ridge Christian volleyball team forfeited its match on Saturday in the NorCal DVI semis. Here is a note from the school on why. pic.twitter.com/JpsFbFu0tS — Sac-Joaquin MaxPreps (@SacMaxPreps) November 18, 2024 The school added that it also has “a duty and responsibility to care for the health and safety of our athletes.” “So after consulting with our students, coaches, and staff, we have made the difficult decision to forfeit Saturday’s game,” the school said. “Standing for Biblical truth means more than the outcome of a game.” “This is a heartbreaking end to our season, but I hope you will join me in congratulating these outstanding student-athletes. SRC is proud of them,” Stone Ridge Christian said. The alleged male athlete, Henry Hanlon, is reportedly San Francisco Waldorf’s star player and captain. Hanlon scored at least a third of the school’s points in four consecutive games back in January. The teams play under the California Interscholastic Federation, which enacted “Gender Identity Participation” rules in 2013. “All students should have the opportunity to participate in CIF activities in a manner that is consistent with their gender identity,” the Federation’s policy states. Last school year, an Islamic high school also reportedly forfeited a game to San Francisco Waldorf because it did not want its female athletes playing a contact sport with a male or sharing locker rooms with him. Backlash to biological men in girls’ sports was a driving force during the presidential election cycle this year with President-elect Donald Trump frequently mentioning the issue at his campaign rallies. Two thirds of Americans now say trans-identifying male athletes should “never” or only “in rare cases” be allowed to compete on girls’ sports teams, according to a Los Angeles Times survey from earlier this year.

When a group of world leaders gathered for a “Family Picture” with Rio de Janeiro’s Sugarloaf Mountain in the background at the G-20 summit in Brazil on Monday, President Joe Biden was nowhere to be found. Video posted to X by C-SPAN showed the world leaders posing for a photo on a platform for the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty. As the leaders began to depart, someone could be heard in the video noting how there were shouts for them to wait for Biden, but they kept walking away. President Biden and other world leaders miss the “Family Picture” at #G20Summit. pic.twitter.com/wqA0zaLuC3 — CSPAN (@cspan) November 18, 2024 Mockery on social media ensued as clips of Biden missing the photo went viral. “His entire term in a post,” quipped radio host Dana Loesch. “He walked off into the Amazon yesterday and never returned,” said political commentator Stephen L. Miller, who was referencing how Biden departed into the Amazon rainforest after delivering remarks on Sunday. Biden, who just authorized Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied long-range missiles, takes no questions and retreats back into the Amazon rainforest pic.twitter.com/xy7xr6qYPZ — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) November 17, 2024 Those who did pose for the picture included Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was there instead of Russian President Vladimir Putin. ? Today (18), after the launch of the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty and the G20 Leaders’Summit first session in Rio de Janeiro, G20 representatives gather for the official Global Alliance photo. pic.twitter.com/CTFzFtEVD4 — G20 Brasil (@g20org) November 18, 2024 USA Today correspondent Francesca Chambers, who was doing the White House press pool report for the event, reported that Biden had arrived late and that he was chatting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as the other leaders were departing. “Due to logistical issues, they took the photo early before all the leaders arrived,” a senior official said, according to Chambers. She also reported that this official, who was not identified, claimed Biden’s absence was not about avoiding a photo with Lavrov. Bloomberg reported that Trudeau and Meloni missed the photo in addition to Biden. The outlet also noted that a U.S. official “blamed” logistics and said the photo was taken early while Brazilian organizers insisted the absent leaders were late. The 81-year-old Biden is wrapping up his time in the White House after his vice president, Kamala Harris, lost to President-elect Donald Trump in the 2024 election earlier this month. Biden had been running for a second term but dropped out in July after a fumbling debate performance against Trump while facing pressure from allies who raised concerns about his age, mental acuity, and electability.

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