The First Street Journal maintains a Stylebook of its own devise. It includes:

Those who claim to be transgender will be referred to with the names, honorifics, and pronouns appropriate to the sex of their birth; the site owner does not agree with the cockamamie notion that anyone can simply ‘identify’ with a sex which is not his own, nor that any medical ‘treatment’ or surgery can change a person’s natural sex; all that it can do is physically mutilate a person.

Sadly, most credentialed media publications do not do the same, but use the Associated Press Stylebook, something I would like to have, but it isn’t free, and I’m not about to waste my money on it.

You may think that I have issued my Stylebook to reflect my political views, and you would be correct. However, screen capturing Google’s return of associated press stylebook on transgender persons, pictured to the right, you’ll see that they have done so as well. The AP Stylebook is structured entirely on the concept that girls can be boys and boys can be girls, and cautions the users against using terms which might dispute that. I am particularly amused by the part which states:

Sex Assigned at Birth: Use phrases like “assigned female at birth” or “assigned male at birth” rather than “born a girl/boy” or “biological sex”.

Such a point has the underlying assumption that sex is something actually assigned at birth, rather than a simple recognition of the biological determination of sex made at conception. I suppose that King Henry VIII could have avoided a whole lot of trouble had he ‘assigned’ Mary as a boy rather than a girl, if such things could actually be assigned.

And so we come to a fawning article in the Los Angeles Times on Abraham Delgado^[1]DailyMail.com can also reveal that AB’s name at birth was Abraham Delgado, born in Riverside, California, on August 4, 2008, according to court records filed by Nereyda (Hernandez) in June … Continue reading, the 17½-year-old boy competing as a girl calling himself A B Hernandez in California high school athletics.

Mother of transgender athlete AB Hernandez determined to push through protests

• As protests target transgender track star AB Hernandez, her mother feels better prepared for protests and national scrutiny.
• State policies allowing transgender girls to compete against cis-gender athletes puts California at odds with federal directives.
• Hernandez, a two-time state champion, dominated Southern Section prelims and eyes a final state title run in Clovis.

By Marisa Ingemi | Thursday, May 14, 2026 | 4 AM PDT

A flyer featuring a pink background was the top Instagram post on California state superintendent candidate Sonja Shaw’s page on Saturday morning. It read, in blue, “a male athlete” held the top spot for an upcoming high school girls’ track and field meet, listing the event start times for protesters.

It was a tactic Nereyda Hernandez previously faced when her daughter, Jurupa Valley High track and field athlete AB Hernandez, first hit the national spotlight last year.

It has been about a year since President Trump targeted AB, who is transgender. As a result, the athlete and her mother knew what to expect when the track postseason began in May. There would be cameras, protesters and vitriol directed at a high school athlete.

You can see it, right away: reporter Marisa Ingemi referred to young Mr Delgado with the feminine pronoun “her”. While our Stylebook notes that we will always refer to the “transgendered” with the names, honorifics and pronouns appropriate to their actual sex, we do not change direct quotations from others.

CIF policies allow transgender athletes to compete alongside other cisgender girls. If the transgender athlete places high enough to advance in qualifying or to medal at a CIF event, the athlete advances or receives the medal. But so does the next athlete in line. As a result, AB shared the first-place podium alongside another athlete twice at the state track and field meet last year.

Perhaps Miss Ingemi simply missed it, and it was just poor prose on her part, but in saying that “CIF policies allow transgender athletes to compete alongside other cisgender girls,” the reporter leaves the implication that there is no difference between “transgender” athletes and “cisgender girls.” That even the Pyrite State recognizes the biological differences is made obvious by the sharing on the podium with real girls.

The Daily Mail reported:

Ahead of the State Championships, DailyMail.com went through the ‘meet program’.

AB Hernandez, as a girl in the Varsity Long Jump category, had a seed mark of 19′ 3.5′ and in the triple jump category 40′ 4.75′. If she, as a biological male, competed against the boys in this year’s championship, AB would not have even qualified in this weekend’s championships.

Naturally, Miss Ingemi failed to include that in her article. Males and females have significantly different hip structures. Because babies have to be able to pass through the birth canal, the hips of females are wider in ways to allow that, while the hip structure of males are optimized for speed and strength, exactly the kind of differences which make a difference in athletic events.

Young Mr Delgado may really see himself as a girl, may really, really, really believe it. He may see himself as a real girl strongly enough that he’d never dream of competing in sports against other boys. But wishin’ and hopin’ and thinkin’ and prayin’, plannin’ and dreamin‘ each night that he’s a girl won’t make him a girl. Sorry, but it just won’t. And propaganda from the credentialed media will not change reality.