Girl, 14, bravely details her disappointment and anger of losing track meet to trans athlete

A 14-year-old miss has bravely shared her disappointment and choler astatine losing a way conscionable to a transgender athlete.

Annaleigh Wilson, a freshman astatine Eastmount High successful Washington State, came successful 2nd spot astatine the Cashmere Junior Olympics determination way conscionable 1,600-meter contention connected May 18, losing to a transgender pistillate jock from Liberty Bell High School, Source One reported astatine the time. 

She and her parents person since spoken retired astir the disadvantage she and different biologic females faced astatine the invite-only competition, with Annaleigh sharing her communicative astatine a meal lawsuit connected September 22. 

The teen was seen breaking down successful tears arsenic she recounted what happened that day, and the vitriol she and her parents person faced since they spoke up.

She said the contention is simply a 'pretty large deal' and is 'basically the championships for our area,' and she had nary thought that she would person to look a transgender jock astatine the event.

'I heard astir this happening astir the country, but I ne'er expected to brushwood it first-hand,' Wilson told a assemblage of much than 500 adults.

She past went connected to accidental that she inactive did not adjacent recognize she was facing a transgender jock arsenic she took her starting position.

'When each the runners had lined up to race, I noticed that this jock was built precise otherwise than each of the different girls, but I didn't deliberation overmuch of it due to the fact that we were connected the starting enactment and we were astir to race.'

It wasn't until aft Wilson finished successful 2nd by 7 seconds to the transgender jock that she discovered what happened.

She described however she heard a 'commotion of upset adults and kids' portion she was lasting connected the podium.

'That is erstwhile I heard that the jock that was lasting adjacent to maine connected the first-place podium was a biologic boy,' Wilson said.

'My bosom sank and I felt highly discouraged,' she recounted. 

'I felt similar each my hard enactment that I had enactment successful passim the twelvemonth didn't substance and that it was conscionable going to beryllium forgotten,' Wilson said done tears.

Following the meet, Wilson said her and her household 'spoke up astir however unfair this was,' not due to the fact that she came successful 2nd but due to the fact that 'boys racing against girls astatine this level of contention isn't close and it isn't fair.'

'All of those biologic girls lasting up determination adjacent to maine had worked conscionable arsenic hard arsenic I had passim the full season, but astatine that moment, our hard enactment and endowment did not matter.'

'Our pistillate voices request to beryllium heard, due to the fact that we are the ones that this is personally affecting,' she continued, earlier describing the hatred she and her parents person received for speaking out.

'Adults person attacked my household and maine for speaking up for fairness and extortion of biologic girls successful sports,' Wilson claimed.

'My household and I person been told by adults that we are transphobic, that I americium a sore loser and that I worth winning much than a quality life.

'We person besides been told that it volition beryllium our responsibility and that we volition beryllium the ones liable if this transgender jock takes their life, and past I was told that I americium conscionable simply not bully enough, and that's wherefore I placed second.

'But I consciousness similar the aforesaid radical who are attacking pistillate athletes for speaking up bash not attraction astir the intelligence tolls and struggles this is besides taking connected pistillate athletes,' she said.

'These words person affected maine and it has wounded tremendously to perceive each of these things due to the fact that maine and my household are immoderate of the kindest people, who strive to emotion everyone and bash what is right.'

Wilson past went connected to accidental that she has had anxiousness and panic attacks arsenic a effect of the vitriol, and has been 'truing to beryllium to those who accidental I americium not bully capable by grooming adjacent harder.'

But, she said, 'what hurts the astir is that nary substance however hard I bid oregon however hard I propulsion myself, the likelihood of beating a lad is slim.' 

Wilson concluded her abbreviated code by saying, 'Allowing boys to vie successful girls' sports isn't moving and it is not fair.'

She said she hopes that adults volition measurement up and 'do what is close to support advertisement support women's sports just and harmless for biologic girls.

'I anticipation we tin find a solution for each athletes to vie reasonably and safely, due to the fact that astatine 14 years old, adjacent I could spot that the existent rules aren't moving for biologic girls oregon transgender athletes,' Wilson said.

The Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction presently orders nationalist schools to let students to enactment successful carnal acquisition and athletics that correspond to their sex identity, Source One reports.

Wilson's parents, Elizabeth and Brendan, present accidental they are trying to get the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association - which governs interscholastic athletics - to alteration who is eligible for these invitational meets.

'We don't privation immoderate hatred for this kid. It's a child,' Elizabeth told Source One pursuing the meet. 'But astatine the aforesaid time, I conscionable privation to cognize however bash we support our kid arsenic well?

'We privation sports to beryllium fair,' she said. 'Our girl puts a batch successful to everything she does successful sports.'

The household has since gained the enactment of erstwhile NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines, who has made a sanction for herself speaking retired against transgender athletes competing against biologic females.

She praised Wilson for her courageousness to basal up for what she believes successful astatine the meal past month, and antecedently told Fox News that she is 'the rightful winner' who 'deserves to beryllium deemed and called a champion.'