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Newsom backs review of access in youth sports
Los Angeles Times
|October 15, 2025
Panel will examine whether a state board is needed to improve opportunities for all.
THE BILL looks at access to sports based on race, sex, gender identity and more.
(GINA FERAZZI Los Angeles Times)
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed legislation to study inequalities in youth sports, a move likely to draw ire from Republicans who believe the measure is intended to support transgender athletes.
The legislation, Assembly Bill 749, creates a commission to examine whether a new state board or department is needed to improve access to sports regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, income or geographic location.
In an open letter last month to the governor, Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones (R-Santee) zeroed in on the term “gender identity.”
“The author and supporters of [this legislation] know if they were upfront and put forth a straightforward bill allowing biological males to compete against young women and girls, it would be easily defeated,” Jones wrote on Sept. 26. “So instead they are trying to establish a stacked commission to indirectly rig the issue in their favor.”
This story is from the October 15, 2025 edition of Los Angeles Times.
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