Activists clash outside California track meet over trans athlete

Chaos broke out between Save Girls Sports activists and pro-LGBTQ demonstrators outside the California Interscholastic Federation state championship track meet in Clovis.

A press conference organized by Pride at the Pier and Rainbow Families Action was underway when a group of Save Girls Sports activists arrived and began shouting at participants.

Clovis police officers arrived to monitor the confrontation but did not intervene. The shouting ended without arrests or further action.

The Clovis Police Department declined to comment.

Beth Bourne, a Save Girls Sports activist who led the counterprotest, told Fox News Digital she wanted to hold signs and speak about fairness in girls' sports and what she called the unfairness of telling AB Hernandez he could compete as a girl.

Pro-LGBTQ activist Daisy Gardner told Fox News Digital she hoped Bourne would learn, educate herself and heal with her family.

The event marked the second straight year that controversy over Hernandez, a trans athlete seeking state titles in three girls' jumping events, has overshadowed the CIF state finals.