A California mother speaks with compassion but brutal honesty about the presence of a trans athlete in her daughter’s sport
Given how different the United States is on all issues, it’s understandable that many people are often fooled into thinking that their positions must be absolute… all or nothing.
Either you have something fully, or you are against it. No in the middle.
The transgender movement seems to work a lot like that. Any objection, any disagreement with any part of it can lead to immediate accusations of transphobia, hatred and bigotry.
AB Hernandez poses with the second and third place finishers and co-champion after being named the girls high jump champion at the 2026 CIF Southern Section Track & Field Masters Meet in Moorpark, Calif., on May 23, 2026. (OutKick/Fox News Digital)
Devoted California mom Jennifer Oliver, while talking to OutKick about the issue of natural men in women’s sports, boldly threw that idea on its head.
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Oliver might not like it if trans athlete AB Hernandez, a native man from Jurupa Valley, prevented his daughter, Nieve Oliver, a sophomore from Camarillo, from getting the top spot on the podium in the high jump at the girls’ high school state meet Saturday at Moorpark High School, northwest of Los Angeles.
But Oliver says that doesn’t mean he doesn’t like Hernandez, or the way Hernandez has chosen to live. It also doesn’t mean he doesn’t have sympathy and compassion for Hernandez.
“There’s no hate,” said Oliver. “It’s not there. My daughter includes everyone. We get along with everyone. This has nothing to do with that. But we also need to do the right thing. My daughter hopes that the adults in charge will do the right thing.”
Trans athlete AB Hernandez competes ahead of female competitor Reese Hogan at the California girls track meet Saturday, May 16, 2026 in Moorpark, California. (Fox News Digital.)
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So what is the right thing?
For girls’ and women’s sports advocates, like Oliver, it’s easy. Justice. Safety. Respect.
Oliver believes that girls are deprived of all that second nature men are allowed in their places, and in their games.
Hernandez, who won two California state championships last year in girls track (high jump and triple jump), is now on track to win three more titles. At Saturday’s state meet, Hernandez won not only the high jump and triple jump but also the long jump. Hernandez will compete in those events at the state meet next weekend at Buchanan High School in Clovis.
Meanwhile, Nieve Oliver will also compete in the high jump. But she and four other girls who cleared 5-foot-6 at Moorpark were denied the best jump of the day, because Hernandez cleared 5-foot-8.
“The elders need to make the right decision here. It’s time. Hands down. And so far, that’s not happening,” Oliver said. “Thank goodness the high jump is not a contact sport. My daughter plays girls flag football, too. I’m very concerned that if there was a problem like this in flag football, I don’t think I would let her compete. It wouldn’t be safe.”
AB Hernandez, a transgender student at Jurupa Valley High School, competes in the girls’ high jump at the 2026 CIF Southern Section Track and Field Masters Meet in Moorpark, Calif., on May 23, 2026. (OutKick/Fox News Digital)
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Likewise, Oliver does not believe that a natural male competing with a female in any sport is wrong. He thinks California’s willful disregard for President Donald Trump’s February 2025 executive order banning men from women’s sports will eventually be addressed by the courts.
“It’s like what can we really do now (parents),” Oliver asked in frustration. “We can wait until the end of the season and we hope that we will see this game in the courts and we hope that the courts will fix it. That is what should happen.”
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To hedge its bets, the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) created a rule where, during the latest rounds of state track, the trans athlete who wins the event must be the top spot on the podium with the top woman, which reads like a soft acknowledgment that the situation is problematic at its core.
AB Hernandez, a transgender student at Jurupa Valley High School, competes in the girls’ long jump at the 2026 CIF Southern Section Track & Field Masters Meet in Moorpark, Calif., on May 23, 2026. (OutKick/Fox News Digital)
“I think the important thing is that everyone knows who won, we all do,” Oliver said of the shared podium farce. “And you feel bad for AB that way. I mean, this isn’t about the person (AB). It’s not. It’s not about a community. It’s not about any of that. It’s just…it shouldn’t have gotten to this point in the first place.
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“Biology is biology. We hope they get this right next year. It’s time to do the right thing.”
Of course, the right thing is that every young athlete deserves a place to compete and succeed. But that place needs to be a fair, just and safe place — not just for one athlete, but for everyone.
