By Emma Tucker, Julia Vargas Jones, Norma Galeana, CNN

Clovis, California (CNN) — The transgender high school athlete whose participation in this weekend’s California track and field championships prompted President Donald Trump to threaten to remove state funding is competing in Saturday’s final round.

A.B. Hernandez, a public high school junior in Southern California, placed first in long jump, high jump and triple jump in the preliminary round Friday as a group protested her ability to compete, holding signs reading, “Save Girls Sports” and cheered while an airplane with a banner reading, “No Boys in Girls’ Sports” flew over the stadium.

“I don’t think that having a male in female competition is fair competition,” one protester told CNN, who misgendered A.B. while saying as an athle

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