High school girls stage protest after trans athlete wins 2nd straight state track championship

Veronica Garcia's authorities title is being met with tons of backlash.

Garcia, a elder astatine East Valley High School successful Spokane, Washington, took location the girls' 400-meter 2A authorities rubric connected Saturday. Garcia is simply a transgender female.

Garcia, according to the Seattle Times, was heckled earlier the contention and was booed aft it.

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Girls astatine Tumwater High School protested against trans jock Veronica Garcia's authorities way title. (XX-XY Athletics)

But the disapproval did not extremity connected Saturday. With students backmost astatine schoolhouse aft the weekend, precocious schoolhouse girls decided to instrumentality matters into their ain hands.

Numerous girls from Tumwater High School successful Tumwater protested during schoolhouse hours with a ample banner motion that read, "This is not a locomotion retired (sic). We are not going anywhere."

Other signs work "XX," "protest pistillate sports" and different akin messages.

The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) issued the pursuing connection to Fox News Digital: "The WIAA continues to proudly correspond the 225,000+ student-participants crossed the state. The Association is alert of the protestation by Tumwater HS students."

The Tumwater girls' squad finished successful 3rd spot successful the meet. Reese Heryford finished successful 15th spot successful a preliminary tally for the 400 meters, failing to beryllium successful the indispensable apical 8 to suffice for the final.

Garcia said the boos were "expect[ed]."

Demonstrators cheer during the Our Bodies, Our Sports rally for the 50th day of Title IX astatine Freedom Plaza connected June 23, 2022, successful Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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"I’ll beryllium honest, I benignant of expect it," Garcia told the Seattle Times. "But it possibly didn’t person their intended effect. It made maine angry, but not aggravated arsenic successful I wanted to springiness up, but aggravated arsenic successful I’m going to push.

"I’m going to enactment this successful the astir PG-13 way. I’m conscionable going to accidental it’s a damn shame they don’t person thing other amended to do. I anticipation they get a life. But ohio well. It conscionable shows who they are arsenic people."

Garcia, who ran the contention successful 55.70 seconds, won by implicit a afloat second. That clip would person been the slowest by immoderate boy, adjacent successful the preliminary rounds. Garcia besides won a authorities title past twelvemonth and complained astir the lack of sportsmanship from chap competitors.

Garcia's triumph came astir a week aft the Quilcene School District successful Washington voted, 3-2, to support sports contention based connected athletes' commencement gender, a determination that defies authorities law.

The WIAA, enacted successful 2007, allows transgender students to enactment based connected their sex identity.

(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/File)

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President Donald Trump signed an enforcement bid successful February to support biologic boys retired of girls' and women's sports, but Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal, who erstwhile said it would beryllium "inaccurate" to accidental determination are lone 2 genders, said the bid defies authorities law.

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