Washington state’s high school sports league puts onus for trans athlete controversy on state laws
Washington state has been rocked in recent weeks by a controversy involving a male cross-country runner who switched from a boys’ team to a girls’ team mid-season. The controversy culminated in a protest Tuesday, when about a dozen female runners for…
Washington HS girls blast male athlete participating in track meet: ‘Don’t think that that’s right or fair’
Charlie Garret and Sierra Retzlaff were among the Washington high school girls who walked away from a cross-country race on Tuesday, refusing to compete against a male athlete who began the season on the boys’ team. Instead of bolting off the line…
Washington officials call girl’s claimed emergency ‘manufactured’ after alleged trans athlete sexual assault
Washington education officials called a teenage wrestler’s asserted need for emergency Supreme Court relief “manufactured,” urging the justices to reject her request to avoid competing against transgender opponents after she alleged she was…
Washington girls walk off cross country meet in protest of male athlete, parents reveal how it came to this
Holly Burns and about a dozen other girls walked away from a cross-country race in Washington on Tuesday. They refused to compete against a male athlete who had started the season racing on the boys’ team. When the race began, half of the girls…
Attorney for alleged victim of trans athlete sexual assault says SCOTUS fight can help set Title IX precedent
A Washington high school wrestler’s Supreme Court fight could help bring restrictions on transgender athletes in girls’ sports to 23 states, an attorney representing her told OutKick. Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) senior counsel Hal Frampton said the…
Washington officials won’t budge on trans athlete policy after girl files SCOTUS appeal for alleged assault
Washington’s high school athletics association and the state superintendent say they will keep letting students compete by gender identity while a Supreme Court application over girls’ wrestling is pending. The Washington Office of Superintendent of…
Washington family requests SCOTUS injunction after daughter was allegedly sexually assaulted by trans athlete
EXCLUSIVE: A Washington family has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to step in after lower courts refused to let a teenage wrestler compete this season without being matched against a male athlete. Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed an emergency…
Texas Longhorns Colin Simmons’ vulgar sack celebration was inexcusable for a Christian athlete
Texas Longhorn defensive end Colin Simmons is arguably the best d-end in college football. He looks like a man among boys in the way he manhandles offensive tackles and sacks quarterbacks, but his antics in the Longhorns thrilling victory over Tennessee…
Female athletes, women’s sports advocates speak on Capitol Hill as trans athlete issue hovers over midterms
Female athletes and women’s sports advocates descended on Capitol Hill Wednesday to tell lawmakers how policies allowing biological males to compete in female athletics have affected their safety, privacy and athletic opportunities, while warning that…
‘A win is a win’ says athlete who didn’t let a little diarrhea keep her from finishing in first place
Athletes are asked to push themselves during HYROX events. Sometimes they go beyond the expectations of the organization that puts these races together, races which combine both running and functional workout stations. That was the case during a…