[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 209 (Thursday, December 11, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H5766]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





         STATE OF CALIFORNIA DECISION AFFECTS STUDENT-ATHLETES

  (Mr. KILEY of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KILEY of California. Mr. Speaker, I feel compelled to call 
attention to an outrageous action that has just been undertaken by the 
State of California to deprive many, many young people in my district 
of athletic opportunities.
  Truckee Unified School District, which is in my district, competes 
when it comes to athletics in a neighboring school district in Nevada. 
What is the reason for that?
  Well, for sports like soccer, these are winter sports in California, 
but they are quite hard to play in the winter in this part of the State 
because there is a lot of snow. They are spring sports in Nevada. So in 
order to allow young people to play soccer and other sports, they 
compete in Nevada.
  However, the State of California has just ordered Truckee Unified to 
compete in California, no longer giving them that option. Why? It is 
because Nevada doesn't have the same policy of allowing biological 
males to compete in women's sports.
  Regardless of what you think of that particular policy, it is 
something that only affects a few students, and now the State of 
California is depriving all of these student-athletes of the 
opportunity to play their sport as well as subjecting them to onerous 
new travel arrangements.
  I am urging the State of California to reverse this outrageous 
action.

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