The Stone Ridge Christian High School girls volleyball team forfeited their state playoff match rather than face a team with a male player.
The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) could sanction the Christian school for its decision, reported The San Joaquin Valley Sun, explaining, “Any team that withdraws from CIF playoffs is subject to sanctions at both the Section and State levels.”
CIF “Guidelines for Gender Identity Participation” state:
Stone Ridge Administrator Julie Fagundes wrote a message to families saying that it was the school’s Christian beliefs about God’s male and female creation that drove the decision to forfeit.
She also noted the school’s concern for the health and safety of female athletes:
Fagundes said it was a “heartbreaking end” to the season for the teen girls, who had a winning record of 20-12 and finished second in their league with a 12-2 record. The team beat North Hills High School to advance in the playoffs and would have taken on the #1 seed, San Francisco Waldorf, in the CIF NorCal Division VI semi-finals.
Waldorf went on to lose the championship match to St. Vincent de Paul College Prep, 3 sets to 0.
As previously reported by the Daily Citizen, Henry Hanlon, a senior, plays three girls sports at Waldorf: volleyball, basketball and soccer. Last year, he led the girls volleyball team to a CIF North Coast Section championship.
The Waldorf School is a private religious school charging $56,000 a year for grades 9-12. Waldorf Schools are based on the teachings of Rudolph Steiner, an occultist who founded the “General Anthroposophical Society” and Waldorf Education, which is rooted in Steiner’s mystical, gnostic ideology.
Gnosticism undergirds gender ideology – elevating “knowledge” and “the spiritual” over the body and the material world. Christianity, on the other hand, acknowledges the reality and goodness of the body and all of God’s creation.
The Stone Ridge girls were widely applauded on social media for their decision to stand against boys in girls sports.
Women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines, author of Swimming Against the Current: Fighting for Common Sense in a World That’s Lost Its Mind, encouraged people to “show them some love for standing firm!
While Christians have compassion for and work to bring healing to the sexually confused, we must not agree with false gender dogma and affirm sexual identity confusion.
Kudos to Stone Ridge Christian High School and the girls volleyball team for taking a principled stand stand for scriptural truth, scientific reality, and fairness and safety for young women.
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