HS runner begs school to remove trans athlete amid safety fears: ‘LGBTQ shoved down our throats’
A girls runner at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, presented a heated plea to her school’s board Thursday amid an ongoing controversy over a trans athlete on her team.
A 16-year-old high school student, Kylie Morrow, spoke out in the latest case of her classmates complaining that their “Save Girls Sports” T-shirts were likened to a swastika by school officials. The plaintiffs were wearing the shirts after a transgender athlete, who was not participating academically or meeting essential varsity eligibility requirements, was named to a college team, and kicked one of the girls out of her place, the complaint said.
The school’s athletic department officials allegedly then forced students to remove or hide their shirts, saying they created a “hostile” environment and comparing wearing the shirts to wearing a swastika in front of Jewish students.
Morrow spoke at a Riverside Unified School District board meeting Thursday, criticizing her school officials and the idea that transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in women’s sports.
“I’m always touched by the action that happened this season, and I was there for the women, and my team in general, who felt almost silenced to talk about it, because everything LGBTQ is shoved down our throats! ” Morrow said.
“We live in a society where it’s almost impossible to talk about it without facing consequences.”
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Morrow said he has personally contacted the school’s athletic director about the situation. He went on to passionately defend his teammates who filed a lawsuit amid comparisons of their messages to swastikas.
“It seems like my school and the school district are choosing to support one person instead of supporting the whole team,” Morrow said. “To see the athletic director turn around and tell our teammates that their shirts that say, ‘Save girls’ sports’ are compared to a swastika, that’s not right. These girls feel silenced, they feel silenced, and when they finally do something they are completely stabbed in the back.
Morrow concluded her testimony by expressing how “unsafe” the entire situation made her feel as a female athlete forced to share a locker room with a live male.
“It’s not fair that I have to be in a situation, and I have to see a man in booty shorts, and I have to see that around me, as a 16-year-old girl I don’t see as a safe place,” Morrow said. “I entered the changing room and saw men inside, I don’t find it safe, I can’t find a safe to go to the bathroom. There are boys. It’s not right. I’m a 16-year-old girl. !”
The two girls who filed the lawsuit, identified as Kaitlyn and Taylor, previously told Fox News Digital how difficult the situation was.
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“My first reaction was like, I was really surprised, because I was like, ‘Why is this happening to me?'” Taylor said. “There is a transgender student on the team. Why am I being removed when “I worked hard and went to every practice, and this student only went to a few practices.”
The shock of having their shirts compared to swastikas was unexpected for them.
“It was hard to hear because we’re not trying to be hateful,” Kaitlyn said. “We’re just wearing a shirt that expresses what we believe in trying to raise awareness of a certain situation.”
Martin Luther King High School is one of several public education institutions in California currently facing controversy over an athlete running on a girls’ or women’s sports team.
Stone Ridge Christian High School’s girls volleyball team was scheduled to face San Francisco Waldorf in the Northern California Division 6 tournament but lost a pregame announcement over the presence of a trans athlete on the team last week.
A transgender volleyball player was punched and molested during an Oct. 12 between Notre Dame Belmont in Belmont, California, against Half Moon Bay High School, according to ABC 7. Half Moon Bay scheduled a transgender athlete.
In response to complaints of bullying and harassment, athletic director Steve Sell of Aragon High School in San Mateo, California, intervened. In his position as co-chairman of the Peninsula Athletic League Athletic Directors, Sell informed Notre Dame that there could be consequences, according to ABC 7.
Meanwhile, at the college level, the San Jose State volleyball team has been in the middle of a national media controversy over the presence of a transgender athlete on the team and a teammate involved in multiple lawsuits regarding the issue.
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San Jose State women’s captain Brooke Slusser has joined the NCAA and filed her own lawsuit against the Mountain West Conference and her school alleging she was misled about the biological gender of her teammate, Blaire Fleming. male.
The two have continued to play together this season in this ongoing rivalry but seven games have been taken away from their schedule. San Jose State will compete in the Mountain West championship, but a decision by a Biden-appointed judge after an emergency hearing in Colorado on Thursday could prevent that from happening.
A spokesman for the Mountain West said it is possible that San Jose State will win the championship if the opponents lose the upcoming championship games in Las Vegas starting on November 27. But the judge of the association Kato Crews will decide whether that program will stop or not, or whether the team and the player transgender may compete.
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