Gavin Newsom Breaks With Fellow Democrats on Transgender Students in Girls’ Sports, Calling It ‘a Fundamental Issue of Fairness’

Governor Newsom, who is widely expected to enter the 2028 presidential race after leaving office next year, is making a sharp break with his party on the issue of transgender people in girls’ and women’s sports, saying that it is fundamentally unfair for biological males to compete against those who were born female. The governor says that Republicans’ attacks on Vice President Harris on the issue was “devastating,” “brutal,” and highly effective last year.