A school board in deep blue California narrowly passed a measure barring biological males from competing in girls’ sports. The Redlands Unified School District in San Bernardino County voted Tuesday to pass a resolution requiring students to compete only in sports that align with their biological sexes, according to local news reports.

Board President Michelle Rendler was joined by members Candy Olson and Jeanette Wilson in supporting the resolution, while trustees Melissa Ayala-Quintero and Patty Holohan opposed it. The only public comment made at the time of passage was by Olson, who noted her own athletic record in school and stated, “I am just so grateful that this insanity had not entered into society when I was growing up.” She further pledged to “do everything in my power to push for fairness and their privacy in girls’ spaces.”

In comments to The Washington Stand, Meg Kilgannon, senior fellow for Education Studies at Family Research Council, said, “California leads the way on so many issues. It’s great to see a school board deciding to protect children from gender ideology in sports.” She added, “This can be a first step in returning to common sense and safety for all children in the school. We can pray that the rest of California and the nation will continue in this direction of reality and restoration.”

The board also debated policies that would ban the display of political flags, including LGBT Pride flags, in classrooms and remove “obscene” books from classrooms and school libraries. Locals who attended the meeting in order to voice opposition to the policies carried orange signs that read “No Hate Speech.” Other signs derided the proposed policies as a form of “Christian Nationalism.” Over 200 locals attended the meeting and about 100 were afforded an opportunity to speak. While some parents denounced the proposed policies, labeling them hateful or harmful, others supported the measures, including the resolution that the board passed that day. “It is not hateful to tell the truth,” said one mother, in support of policies barring biological males from girls’ sports. She added, “The most un-American thing you can do is take away rights from biological girls.”

Sonja Shaw, president of the nearby Chino Valley school board, also attended the event, in order to promote the proposed policies, which she said are “not controversial, it is common sense.” She added, “We are here to make common sense common again.” Hailing the proposed flag policy as an effort to keep classrooms politically neutral, Shaw said, “Classrooms should not be billboards for political agendas.”

Shaw previously led the Chino Valley school board in adopting similar policies. The Temecula Valley Unified School District in Riverside County adopted a policy last month barring biological males from competing in girls’ sports.