By Mark Tanos
Tom Steyer is throwing his weight behind a biological male competing in girls’ track and field, and he is doing it on the same morning the athlete chases another state title.
The California gubernatorial candidate praised the transgender athlete AB Hernandez during a friendly exchange with the athlete and Hernandez’s mother, according to the footage Steyer shared on X. Steyer tells the athlete he wants the governor’s office to shield Californians from harm. “It’s the job of the governor to stand between danger and Californians,” Steyer says on the video. He adds that he is “so proud of you for what you’re doing” and “so proud of you for competing,” and tells Hernandez he hopes the athlete does well at the state meet, according to the video. (RELATED: Biological Man Wins Two Girls Jumping Events, Qualifies For State Championship For Second Year In A Row)
Hernandez, a senior at Jurupa Valley High School, is a biological male who captured two girls’ state titles last year, Sports Illustrated reported. Hernandez won the high jump with a mark of 5 feet, 7 inches and the triple jump with a leap of 42 feet, 2.75 inches, finishing second in the long jump. Female competitors who placed behind Hernandez were bumped up one spot on the podium after the California Interscholastic Federation changed its rules.
The role of the Governor is to protect Californians, and to stand between them and danger.
That’s a role I take very, very seriously, particularly when it comes to trans youth. pic.twitter.com/N6huW9NSuZ
— Tom Steyer (@TomSteyer) May 29, 2026
Hernandez qualified again and competed at this year’s state finals Saturday in Clovis, where the CIF kept its podium-sharing policy in place, Fox News reported. Steyer released the video the same morning as the finals.
Steyer is one of several Democrats running in the June 2 primary to succeed termed-out Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. Republican candidate Steve Hilton took the opposite side, appearing at a “Save Girls Sports” rally in Clovis the day before the finals, Fox News reported. Hilton has said he would move to overturn the 2013 law that allows students to compete according to their gender identity.
Democratic politicians like Steyer want taxpayers to pay for transgender medical procedures on kids known as “gender affirming care.” These procedures have serious consequences. 95% of young transgender people on testosterone develop pelvic floor dysfunction; most have bowel issues and sexual dysfunction. As the Telegraph reported, “Around 87 per cent…had urinary symptoms such as incontinence, frequent toilet visits and bed-wetting, while 74 per cent had bowel issues including constipation or being unable to hold stools or wind in. Some 53 per cent suffered from sexual dysfunction…Almost half had an ‘orgasm disorder’, while a quarter suffered from pain during sexual intercourse.”
Transgender treatments can lead to a lifetime of pain, discomfort, and medications. As Britain’s National Health Service explains, hormones “need to be taken for the rest of your life, even if you have gender surgery.” An FDA official who supported giving minors puberty blockers conceded that they actually increase suicidality. Indeed, the “FDA knew ‘gender affirming’ puberty blockers increase ‘suicidality’ in 2017,” reported Just the News.
Even the transgender lawyer who challenged Tennessee’s restrictions on transgender treatments for kids admitted to the Supreme Court that “completed suicide is thankfully and admittedly rare” among transgender youth, even those not given gender-affirming treatment, and that “there is no evidence…that this [transgender-affirming] treatment reduces completed suicide.” The ACLU’s Chase Strangio admitted that to the Supreme Court.
Yet doctors who did sex changes often falsely told parents that they needed to give their kids a sex change to keep them from committing suicide, even though this isn’t true. One of America’s most prominent gender doctors, “Dr. Olson-Kennedy disclosed to how she speaks with parents of gender dysphoric patients: ‘We often ask parents, “Would you rather have a dead son than a live daughter?’”
