Despite negative headlines across far-right media, a 17-year-old California girl walked away a state champion, with two gold medals around her neck.

Just days after graduating high school in Jarupa out transgender teen AB Hernandez won the girls' high jump and triple jump in the CIF track and field state championships. Saturday’s wins at the Clovis meet marked her second consecutive year…

A _New York Times_ preview of this weekend’s California state track and field championships has renewed criticism of the newspaper’s coverage of transgender athletes. The publication provided little context and no interviews with trans people or with supporters of transgender inclusion.

The focus of the _Times_ report is AB Hernandez, a 17-year-old transgender athlete from Jurupa Valley, who…

She jumped higher than any other girl and took first place in three track and field contests. But a state athletic policy enacted last year forced transgender athlete AB Hernandez to share the podium on Saturday with cisgender girls who couldn't match her performance.

Hernandez, a two-time state champion representing Jurupa Valley High School, won the high jump, long jump, and triple jump…