California school official compared 'Save Girls Sports' shirt to swastika, rebuked girls wearing it: lawsuit

EXCLUSIVE: Two precocious schoolhouse cross-country runners and their families are suing a California schoolhouse district, alleging their "Save Girls Sports" T-shirts were likened to a swastika.

Plaintiffs Kaitlyn and Taylor, 2 athletes astatine Martin Luther King High School successful ninth and eleventh grade, respectively, wore T-shirts bearing the messages "Save Girls’ Sports" and "It’s Common Sense. XX ≠ XY." 

The girls wore the shirts aft a transgender athlete, who didn’t consistently be practices oregon conscionable cardinal varsity eligibility requirements, was placed connected the varsity team, displacing Taylor from her spot, the ailment alleged.

"My archetypal absorption was like, I was truly surprised, due to the fact that it was like, wherefore is this happening to me?" Taylor told Fox News Digital. "There's a transgender pupil connected the team. Why americium I getting displaced erstwhile I worked truthful hard and gone to each of the practices, and this pupil has lone attended a fewer of the practices."

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Taylor and Kaitlyn, 2 cross-country athletes astatine a precocious schoolhouse successful Riverside, CA, sued the territory for allegedly impeding connected their First Amendment rights and Title IX violations. (Courtesy of Kaitlyn and Taylor)

Athletic section schoolhouse officials allegedly forced the students to region oregon conceal the shirts, claiming they created a "hostile" situation and comparing wearing these shirts to wearing a swastika successful beforehand of Jewish students.

"It was decidedly hard to perceive due to the fact that we're by nary means trying to beryllium hateful," Kaitlyn told Fox News Digital. "We're conscionable wearing a garment that expresses what we judge successful trying to rise consciousness to a situation."

The transgender athlete, however, has been allegedly allowed to deterioration "trans pride" bracelets, and the schoolhouse allows different forms of societal messaging astir campus, including a LGBTQ pridefulness flag, the ailment noted.

"The biologic antheral transgender jock who displaced T.S. connected the girls’ varsity squad had precocious transferred from different section precocious schoolhouse aft breaking that school’s all-time cross-country grounds for the girls’ cross-country team," the ailment said.

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"T.S., who had held a presumption connected the girls’ Varsity Top 7 since August 2024 was removed from the girls’ Varsity Top 7 to marque country connected the girls’ Varsity Top 7 for an eleventh-grade transgender pupil and T.S. was relegated to the inferior varsity squad for 1 of the astir important meets of the play for assemblage recruitment," the ailment said.

According to the girls' Advocates for Faith and Freedom attorney, Julianne Fleischer, the suit claims determination were violations of their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights and their Title IX protections.

In October, according to the complaint, the district’s Title IX coordinator, Bethany Scott, informed Taylor's parent of a ceremonial probe into her complaint. Scott besides conveyed that Taylor would not beryllium disadvantaged by moving connected the inferior varsity squad astatine a cardinal upcoming cross-country meet, but her parent argued it would harm her chances of being noticed by assemblage scouts. By Nov. 1, aft follow-ups, the territory reclassified the Title IX ailment arsenic a confidential unit matter, claiming it did not conscionable the criteria for sex-based discrimination.

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Taylor and Kaitlyn are cross-country runners successful RUSD. (iStock)

Typically, aggregate factors, beyond contention times, are considered for varsity enactment connected the cross-country squad They ailment alleges that Taylor's dedication and hard enactment were overlooked, and the schoolhouse district failed to supply a wide explanation, forming the ground of the Title IX complaint, Fleisher said.

"We're seeing much and much women and young girls talk up and situation these policies that are allowing biologic boys to articulation and enactment successful these sports," Fleischer told Fox News Digital. "And truthful there's lawsuits that are popping up each astir the country. We're hopeful that adjacent with the incoming medication and Congress that we're going to spot existent affirmative alteration to Title IX that really upholds and safeguards the rights of women to enactment successful their sports and to beryllium harmless and to beryllium capable to vie amongst 1 another."

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Under the Biden-Harris administration, Title IX was amended to see favoritism against sex individuality and intersexual orientation. The Supreme Court ruled against 1 of Biden's requests successful August that would person permitted biologic men successful women’s bathrooms, locker rooms and dorms successful 10 states wherever determination are state-level and local-level rules successful spot to forestall it. 

On the run trail, President-elect Donald Trump said helium would rotation backmost Biden-Harris policies connected sex treatments for minors and support women successful sports.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the Riverside Unified School District and Martin Luther King High School for comment.