Newsom's 'unfair' remark on girls' sports belies record as governor: 'Absolute bulls---'

"He obviously wants to be president, and if you want to be president, you have to convince the majority of the country that you're a moderate," said Hamill, who previously worked as a law clerk in the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice for Victims of Overseas Terrorism. 

While protections for transgender athletes were signed under previous Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown in 2013, Newsom has carried that torch since taking office in 2019 and passed several pieces of legislation codifying certain protections for transgender people and procedures in the state. 

"The rates of suicide for kids who identify as trans are very high, and they get higher after procedures are done," Hamill said of the Support Academic Futures and Educators for Today's Youth (SAFETY) Act. 

"So, you know, his claim to care about these kids is absolute bulls---," she said. "You cannot conceal information, critical information about what a child is going through at school from that child's parents."

In a federal lawsuit against the Department of Education, Hamill is representing fifth-grade girls who "are being told that they have to accept a room assignment on their overnight science camp with someone who identifies as female but may not actually be female." She said Newsom "has the ability as the leader of the party in California to push to repeal or amend" these laws.

"Well, I think it's an issue of fairness," Newsom replied. "I completely agree with you on that. It's deeply unfair."

Trump signed an executive order titled "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" in February, which said transgender athletes in women's sports is "demeaning, unfair, and dangerous to women and girls." The order requires institutions receiving federal funding to abide by Title IX and follow the definitions of biological sex. 

A day later the NCAA, which oversees college sports, instituted a ban. And more than two dozen states now prevent transgender athletes from school sports.

Newsom noted he has four children, including two daughters, and highlighted that both he and his wife played college-level sports.

"I revere sports, so the issue of fairness is completely legit," Newsom said.

Fox News Digital has reached out to Newsom's office for comment.