Faculty determined to compete to indicate ‘Christ’s like to the world’
A non-public Christian faculty in California gained a women’ basketball championship after handily profitable a playoff in opposition to a staff with a organic male participant who did not play after the college determined to compete to indicate “Christ’s like to the world.”
Cornerstone Christian Faculty, which operates as a Ok-12 faculty in Antioch, situated within the East Bay Space, drew nationwide consideration after faculty principal Logon Heyer introduced the Cougars’ varsity women basketball staff would compete in a playoff recreation final Saturday in opposition to San Francisco Waldorf Wolverines, regardless of the presence of a male trans-identified athlete on the opposing staff.
In a letter to the college neighborhood shared with CP, Heyer stated that whereas the college doesn’t assist the transgender motion, it seeks to embody the Christian precept of loving others, as taught in Matthew 22:39. “Participating with others in a spirit of kindness and respect, even after we could disagree on sure issues, is a crucial a part of displaying Christ’s like to the world,” Heyer wrote.
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“We perceive that it is a advanced concern, however we’re dedicated to educating our college students with a biblical worldview, which implies demonstrating to them what it seems to be wish to be a follower of Christ, and actually loving individuals who we disagree with,” he added. “It’s our hope that this recreation might be a possibility for sportsmanship, mutual respect, and extra importantly an indication of the love of Christ in a tangible means.”
He inspired mother and father and others attending the sport to “cheer and love identical to Jesus would, with compassion and style, with a coronary heart in the direction of a world who desperately wants Him and concentrate on supporting our women and demonstrating love.”
The participant, recognized as Henry Hanlon, reportedly didn’t attend the Wolverines’ playoff recreation in opposition to Cornerstone. The college didn’t present a cause for Hanlon’s absence because the Cougars went on to win the sport 56-30, ending the Wolverines’ season.
Hanlon is a four-year women varsity participant averaging over 20 factors per recreation and has scored almost triple the variety of factors of Zoe Rhoads, the Wolverines’ second-highest scorer, in line with highschool sports activities knowledge supply Max Preps.
In movies shared on social media, Hanlon is seen towering over each his teammates and opponents and scoring virtually at will, together with throughout final month’s win over Jewish Neighborhood Excessive Faculty.
Transgender male dominates GIRLS basketball match.
Henry Hanlon, who’s a organic male, scored 29 factors in San Francisco Waldorf’s 59-33 ladies’s basketball win over Jewish Neighborhood Excessive Faculty.
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— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) February 20, 2025
Ending with a 21-9 report, the Cougars gained the North Coast Part Women Basketball Championship with a 71-42 win over Spherical Valley on Wednesday.
Whereas Cornerstone opted to compete, at the very least two groups have refused to play in opposition to the male athlete, together with Stone Ridge Christian, which forfeited a volleyball playoff recreation in opposition to Waldorf in November, citing “God’s Phrase” which, the college stated, “makes clear God splendidly and immutably created every particular person as male or feminine.”
“Standing for Biblical reality means greater than the end result of a recreation,” the staff wrote in an announcement.
Along with women’ basketball, Hanlon additionally reportedly performs women’ volleyball and women’ soccer for the Wolverines.
Final month, Hanlon caught the eye of ladies’s sports activities advocate Riley Gaines, who wrote on X, “That is the third consecutive recreation the place he is scored greater than 1/3 of the staff’s factors(.) The emperor wears no garments”.
Male participant, Henry Hanlon, scored 26 pts in women highschool basketball recreation final week in San Francisco
That is the third consecutive recreation the place he is scored greater than 1/3 of the staff’s factors
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— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) January 20, 2024
A number of states proceed to defy President Donald Trump’s govt order on ladies’s sports activities, together with California and Maine, the place a faculty district and the state’s Division of Training are below federal investigation.
The U.S. Division of Training’s Workplace for Civil Rights introduced Friday that it despatched a letter to Maine Division of Training Commissioner Pender Makin asserting the Title IX investigation into the state company after studies that Greely Excessive Faculty continues to let a male scholar compete as a lady.
Trump’s Feb. 5 govt order, “Conserving Males Out of Ladies’s Sports activities,” directed govt businesses to take “all applicable motion to guard all-female athletic alternatives,” promising to withdraw federal funding from academic establishments that deprive ladies and women of truthful athletic alternatives.
“Maine would have you ever imagine that it has no selection in the way it treats ladies and women in athletics — that’s, that it should comply with its state legal guidelines and permit male athletes to compete in opposition to ladies and women,” Craig Trainor, appearing assistant secretary for civil rights, stated in a Friday assertion in regards to the investigation.
