“I believe they're just seeking a public humiliation ritual for the girls,” 12-time NCAA All-American female athlete Riley Gaines said Monday after California high school girls were forced to share the podium and first-place with a biological male at a track and field competition Saturday. Biological male AB Hernandez finished ahead of all girl athletes in the high jump, long jump and triple jump – just as he did last weekend at another California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) track and field competition for high school girls. This time, however, a newly-revived rule placed both the top girl and top biological male (transgender) athletes side-by-side on the podium to receive first-place awards, as Fox News explains: “Then, during podium ceremonies, announcers declared that each event had two co-champions, including Hernandez. This was based on a rule enacted last year.” …. “The parent of a female athlete at Saturday's meet told Fox News Digital that a coach informed them that the same pilot program would be implemented for the remainder of the state postseason, starting with the section final on Saturday.” "At this point, I believe they're just seeking a public humiliation ritual for the girls,” Gaines, now an advocate for female sports, told Fox & Friends on Monday: “It's probably one of the most abusive things that you can do to a young woman. “These are, like, 14, 15, 16 year-old girls. You are minimizing their accomplishments. You are asking them to stand aside, to smile, to applaud the boy, to deny reality and pretend that it is all okay. “What is that? It is psychological abuse on full display.” “It’s heartbreaking that the adults have failed them in the way that they have,” Gaines said. “If you have to create a shared podium for the boy competing in the girls’ event, you’ve already admitted you know he isn’t a girl and that his participation is unfair,” Gaines explained in a X.com post following Saturday’s event. Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom’s policies allowing biological males to compete against girls, and even change in front of them in locker rooms, is just one reason “why Californians are moving out at record rates and coming to my state of Tennessee,” Gaines told Fox News. "At this point, I believe they're just seeking a public humiliation ritual for the girls... It's probably one of the most abusive things that you can do to a young woman."@Riley_Gaines_ slams the "psychological abuse" of a California track meet where a transgender athlete swept… pic.twitter.com/Dh6b0AgoHl — FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) May 18, 2026