Reese Hogan is the true champion. She broke a school record and set a new personal best on the track. However, she was denied her place as the winner because she would come in second place to a transgender athlete who was competing against girls.
California high school junior AB Hernandez, a transgender athlete, won CIF titles in the girls’ long jump and triple jump at the Southern Section finals.
Hernandez has been the center of storylines during the past two weeks of the CIF Southern Section high school track and field postseason.
Unlike most young transgenders, Hernandez is an outspoken transgender athlete competing in girls’ track and field. He recently spoke with Capital and Main about the backlash he faces at track and field events.
“All I thought was, ‘I don’t think you understand that this puts your idiotic claims to trash. She can’t be beat because she’s biologically male.’ Now you have no proof that I can’t be beat,” Hernandez said in the interview.
On Saturday, he was so good in the recent event that he won two CIF titles in the triple and long jump at the Southern Section finals at Moorpark High School.
Reese Hogan, who is 16, didn’t let coming in second to a male-born transgender competitor prevent her from standing in the top spot on the podium during placement at a state track and field meet.
Standing in first place, junior trans athlete AB Hernandez of Jurupa Valley, posed with competitors to take pictures on the podium.
As soon as Hernandez and the other girl stepped off the podium, Hogan went to work.
Instead of holding her head down, the 16-year-old jumped on the first-place podium, smiled, and posed.
The crowd wildly cheered for Reese Hogan.
Reese Hogan, the real winner of Women’s CIF Southern Section Finals triple jump, taking her rightful place. Crowd approves. pic.twitter.com/9amizIUzrp
— XX-XY Athletics (@xx_xyathletics) May 18, 2025
When the boy got off the podium, she assumed her rightful spot as champion. The crowd erupts with applause.
THIS is the way.
Congrats to Reese Hogan, the REAL champ!!! https://t.co/KiEm2yV2YY pic.twitter.com/hqGdikES29
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) May 18, 2025
Reese Hogan Gets Praised
“Yay way to go, Reese and ALL the female athletes! Someone post up her Venmo so we can send her a congratulatory $,” one fan said.
Yay way to go Reese and ALL the female athletes! Someone post up her Venmo so we can send her a congratulatory $
— KKLuvYouLongTime (@KKLuvYouLonTime) May 18, 2025
“LOVE this!! Congrats, Reese ,” a second person stated.
LOVE this!! Congrats Reese
— Charlene Bybee (@CharleneBybee) May 19, 2025
“WTG, Reese Hogan ,” a third person applauded.
WTG, Reese Hogan
— GirlUndiscovered™️ (@TmUndiscov21965) May 18, 2025
“Congratulations, Reese! The whole world knows you’re the winner. . We apologize that you have to grow up in an era of ineffective delusional government officials, school administrators, and dysfunctional single mothers raising their boys as girls for social media attention,” a fourth person wrote.
Congratulations, Reese! The whole world knows you're the winner.
We apologize that you have to grow up in an era of ineffective delusional government officials, school administrators, and dysfunctional single mothers raising their boys as girls for social media attention.
— DeniseRiedel (@DeniseRiedel4) May 18, 2025