Women Sports Advocates Call on California High School Sports to Follow Trump’s Executive Order

The group held a press conference outside the California Interscholastic Federation’s council meeting.
Women Sports Advocates Call on California High School Sports to Follow Trump’s Executive Order
Collegiate athlete Amber French speaks at a press conference by the "Save Girls' Sports CA Coalition" in Long Beach, Calif., on Feb. 7, 2025. The group called on the California Interscholastic Federation to follow President Trump's executive order banning men from women's sports. Courtesy of Alyssa Cruz
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LONG BEACH, Calif.—A group called the Save Girls’ Sports CA Coalition on Feb. 7 urged the governing body of high school sports in California to follow President Donald Trump’s executive order banning men from women’s sports and to end what the group called “discriminatory policies.”

“California Interscholastic Federation, CIF, is failing female athletes. CIF has chosen to defy a federal executive order,” said Sophia Lorey, outreach director of California Family Council, and an organizer of the Coalition, at a press conference in Long Beach, ahead of CIF’s quarterly council meeting at that location on the same day.