Chad Bianco reveals his California sports vision: Saving the LA Olympics and trans athlete crisis consequences

A lifelong New York Yankees instrumentality is asking the radical of California to marque him their adjacent governor. 

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who grew up successful the heyday of the 1970-80s Yankees-Dodgers rivalry, admitted helium had mixed emotions erstwhile Shohei Ohtani and institution bushed his puerility squad successful the 2024 World Series. 

"I did [celebrate]. I was bittersweet due to the fact that I wanted the Yankees to win, but astatine the time, arsenic a shot instrumentality I besides noticed the Dodgers were a amended team. The Dodgers deserved to triumph and I was precise blessed to beryllium from the Los Angeles area," Bianco told Fox News Digital. 

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Around that aforesaid time, Bianco watched 1 of his Republican colleagues, and a staple successful the 70s-80s Dodgers-Yankees rivalry, erstwhile Dodgers prima Steve Garvey, marque a tally astatine a U.S. Senate spot successful California. Bianco campaigned with Garvey. But Garvey came up good abbreviated against Democrat incumbent Adam Schiff that year.

Now, Bianco, who is presently a frontrunner for the California governorship successful galore 2026 polls, believes that 2 years of Democratic enactment since Garvey's failed tally has lone strengthened the lawsuit for voting Republican successful the Golden State.

"We're successful a small spot worse disconnected script than we were successful 2024," Bianco said. "Californians are realizing that authorities are corrupt, our authorities authorities is corrupt, and transgression is truly retired of control." 

And sports hasn't been spared immoderate concerns successful the state.

With the Winter Olympics present over, and the Summer Olympics coming to Los Angeles conscionable implicit 2 years from now, anxiousness has mounted implicit the feasibility of the metropolis being capable to big the games, owed to transgression rates, homelessness, harm from the 2025 wildfires, and rising taxes. 

And connected the younker front, the authorities faces an ongoing question of biologic antheral transgender athletes competing successful girls' precocious schoolhouse sports, arsenic California enactment has refused to comply with President Donald Trump's mandate to guarantee lone pistillate athletes vie successful girls' sports. The state's refusal has prompted a Department of Justice lawsuit, aggregate national investigations, arsenic dozens of California girls facing life-changing trauma, with immoderate filing la"wsuits of their own. 

Bianco thinks helium has solutions for some issues. 

The 2028 LA Olympics

As a sheriff, Bianco believes that if Los Angles was acceptable to clasp the Olympics this summer, successful the city's existent state, it would not beryllium imaginable to bash so. 

"No, I don't deliberation so," Bianco said of the metropolis being capable to big the games if they occurred this year. 

"Everyone's wondering however they're going to put the Olympics… we don't person the wealth to dedicate to this, we don't person the updated resources to dedicate to this, for proscription oregon adjacent housing… I deliberation it is perfectly embarrassing… I deliberation the U.S. is going to person an astonishing Olympics, but for the metropolis of Los Angeles it's surely not a arrogant moment." 

Bianco pointed to fiscal mismanagement and alleged fraud successful the authorities government.

Los Angeles continues to acquisition 1 of the nation's largest stateless populations, with astir 72,000+ individuals, driven by terrible shortages successful affordable lodging and precocious rent, per the LA Homeless Services Authority. 

Bianco warned of what helium expects Democrat enactment would bash if they stay successful powerfulness erstwhile the Olympics comes around. 

"They volition spell successful astatine the past minute, and they volition forcibly region each of them and it's not similar they region them, they conscionable unit them to the outskirts distant from the perimeters of wherever these events are going to be," Bianco said. "It's not bully for anyone, it's not bully for those events, it's not bully for those neighborhoods, it's surely not bully for the radical who are homeless."

Bianco said a much feasible solution would necessitate perchance years of assets re-allocation, which helium hopes to instrumentality connected arsenic the state's adjacent governor. He would eliminated backing to 

"We volition person a year, perchance a twelvemonth and a fractional to 2 years, to marque definite we code the stateless situation, and I warrant you that's capable time," Bianco said. 

"It truly isn't homeless, it's not homes, it's cause and intoxicant addiction, combined with intelligence wellness issues. And we person to beryllium honorable and we person to commencement addressing it for what it is. So you destruct each the wealth going to the non-profits and NGOs that's being wasted, abused and funneled backmost into politics. You halt that immediately.

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a enactment campaigner for California governor, stops to talk with a pistillate during a circuit of Skid Row successful Los Angeles connected Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026.  (Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)

"You enactment a tiny information of that into the cause and intoxicant rehab and the intelligence wellness rehab, and the centers that dainty both. Because close present those don't exist. I tin astir warrant you that we tin code 90% of the stateless contented that we spot connected the streets wrong the archetypal year. Within the 2nd year, we tin person it each gone." 

There is besides an contented of fiscal strain connected athletes coming into the state.

Bianco pointed to the caller Super Bowl successful Santa Clara, and the fiscal load that deed the players who competed successful it simply due to the fact that they had to wage California taxes.

Seattle Seahawks backmost Sam Darnold mislaid astir $71,000 owed to California's strict "jock tax". While earning a $178,000 winner's bonus, the week spent successful California for Super Bowl LX triggered precocious authorities taxes connected his, amounting to astir $249,000, arsenic the taxation applies to prorated net from his three-year, $105 cardinal contract. 

For the Olympic athletes coming to the metropolis successful 2028, particularly Americans, galore of whom marque acold little than the mean NFL player, Bianco worries however the state's existent taxation strategy could enactment them astatine a disadvantage owed to fiscal constraints. 

"It's going to earnestly impact them with the outgo of surviving here," Bianco said. "They don't marque a batch of money… it's astronomically much costly than immoderate spot crossed the country, truthful it's going to beryllium detrimental for those people."

Bianco has projected eliminating the authorities income tax, intending to regenerate mislaid gross with income from lipid production. He has besides stated that arsenic governor, helium would destruct the state taxation and reason a "mileage tax."

"Taxes are hurting everyone," Bianco said. 

Trans athletes successful girls' sports

California has been the nation's biggest blistery furniture for precocious schoolhouse and assemblage scandals involving biologic antheral trans athletes competing successful girls' and women's sports. 

Current California Gov. Gavin Newsom has said helium believes males successful pistillate sports is "deeply unfair" but hasn't taken immoderate steps to address. Newsom's bureau provided a connection to Fox News Digital successful September, suggesting the contented is beyond his power and responsibility. 

"For the instrumentality to change, the legislature would request to nonstop the Governor a bill. They person not," portion of the connection read. 

Bianco said Newsom's bureau is not telling the truth.

"Every clip helium opens his rima he's not telling the truth. He's telling his mentation of what helium wants you to believe… The world is the politician is the apical enforcement serviceman successful this full authorities and helium sets the rules" Bianco said. 

"That's the politician lying to propulsion the blasted onto idiosyncratic other due to the fact that helium doesn't privation to beryllium held liable for what's happening successful our schools and our girls, due to the fact that helium wants to beryllium president, and helium knows the bulk of the state is ne'er ever ever going to ballot for him knowing that helium won't halt this, truthful he's blaming idiosyncratic else." 

Bianco said helium would usage "force" arsenic politician to guarantee that girls' sports are protected.

"You unit radical to not," helium said of however to grip schools letting males successful girls' sports. "In our precocious schools and successful our schoolhouse system, if they are going to let it, we volition not money that. We volition not money the school, we volition not supply them with their money." 

But preventing the contented from persisting is lone fractional the battle. The information is, the contented has persisted successful California present for respective years, and the authorities and galore residents are dealing with the aftermath. 

Young antheral children successful California person adjacent been transitioned astatine schools, without their parents' permission, and aboriginal placed connected girls' sports teams and successful thier locker rooms.

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Now, the authorities faces a suit from the DOJ implicit its policy, portion galore schools look individualized lawsuits for related incidents. 

Bianco believes helium could "easily" settee the DOJ suit simply by complying with Trump's mandate. 

But the idiosyncratic incidents whitethorn necessitate much steps, according to Bianco.

In Bianco's location region of Riverside, 2 abstracted lawsuits person been filed against schoolhouse districts. 

A large state-funded university, San Jose State University, has been recovered by the U.S. Department of Education to person violated Title IX successful its handling of a transgender volleyball subordinate from 2022-24, and faces a suit from erstwhile athletes and a erstwhile manager implicit the aforesaid issue. 

Bianco believes the young women who person been affected by it are deserving of fiscal compensation, compensation from the schools and compensation straight from the state.

"Some [girls] person been earnestly injured, and immoderate were conscionable emotionally traumatized. The schools should beryllium paying for that. The authorities authorities should beryllium paying for that," Bianco said. "Our civilian process allows for monetary remedies for situations similar this, and they should beryllium getting tons of money, due to the fact that they person earnestly been victimized.

"There surely has to beryllium those arrangements made for those lawsuits, those girls that are suing… you person to settee it… oregon you're going to wage large money. So they are going to get wealth retired of this and they should. They were wronged, they were profoundly wronged." 

Under the existent system, thousands of California schoolhouse employees are legally required to beryllium complicit successful the strategy that allows trans athletes successful girls' sports, but besides the strategy that allows males to sex modulation without their parents' consent oregon knowledge.

Some schoolhouse employees person been fired for refusing to beryllium complicit. 

Bianco has a connection for each schoolhouse employees astir however to grip this issue. He encourages schoolhouse employees to, successful the abbreviated term, hazard their employment by not complying with authorities laws.

"Stand up and bash the close thing," Bianco said to the state's schoolhouse employees. "Thank God we person teachers that are lasting up for that, and they're doing the close thing, and they're perfectly refusing, and they're being fired. Take the badge of honor. Because past you sue, similar these teachers are doing it, and present we're uncovering that they're winning… 

"Your occupation arsenic an big is to support our kids." 

Bianco besides warned of consequences to the schoolhouse employees that bash comply if helium becomes governor.

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"Absolutely," Bianco said erstwhile asked if helium would enactment consequences to schoolhouse employees who are complying with the authorities instrumentality connected trans athletes successful girls' sports and sex transitions for minors. 

"Elected officials are lone acrophobic of 1 thing, and that's not getting elected again, and erstwhile they cognize they're not going to get elected again due to the fact that they're harming our girls oregon they're not protecting our kids, they're going to yet beryllium forced to bash the close thing, and we'll marque definite these changes are taken attraction of." 

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