New York high school students organize walk-out to protest trans athletes in girls' and women's sports: report

High schoolhouse students passim the state of New York person organized a protestation aboriginal this period against transgender athletes successful girls' sports.

The Coalition to Protect Kids has organized a walkout, dubbed "Walk Off for Fairness Day," connected Oct. 24 that has received the enactment of blimpish leaders.

"It’s hard to judge we’re adjacent having the speech that girls sports would beryllium for anyone different than girls," Conservative Party president Gerry Kassar said via the New York Post. "We afloat enactment ‘Walk Off for Fairness Day’ successful New York, reminding young radical that determination is information successful numbers. Girls Sports indispensable stay Girls Sports, and determination should beryllium thing arguable successful that statement."

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Lee University pupil jock Macy Petty speaks during an lawsuit celebrating the House of Representatives passing The Protection Of Women And Girls In Sports Act extracurricular the U.S. Capitol connected April 20, 2023 successful Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

"Girls are being systematically canceled successful this state, and ‘Walk Off for Fairness Day’ volition springiness them a harmless accidental to marque their voices heard," said Coalition to Protect Kids-NY spokeswoman Ayesha Kreutz. "So galore of these young women are acrophobic of speaking out, truthful they’re forced to ticker arsenic 50 years of pistillate diversion advancement gets washed distant by destructive ideologues. Girls are not second-class citizens, truthful wherefore are they being treated that way?"

"It’s not close for boys to vie against girls successful sports. It’s a immense disadvantage for girls," said Hannah Pompeo, a 16-year shot subordinate astatine Eden High School adjacent Buffalo, who is participating successful the "Walk Off for Fairness Day."

University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, left, and Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines respond aft finishing tied for 5th successful the 200 Freestyle finals astatine the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships connected March 18th, 2022 astatine the McAuley Aquatic Center successful Atlanta. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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"I don’t deliberation it’s close for men to beryllium successful our harmless spaces. We worked hard for places connected our teams," added Millie McCormack, a dancer astatine Somers High School. "Boys person carnal advantages we don’t have."

The protestation volition hap astir 2 weeks earlier Election Day, erstwhile New Yorkers volition beryllium capable to ballot connected other protections successful the state's constitution.

Proposition 1, the "Equal Rights Amendment," seeks to not discriminate based connected "race, color, ethnicity, nationalist origin, age, disability, creed, religion, oregon sex, including intersexual orientation, sex individuality oregon expression, pregnancy, gestation outcomes, reproductive healthcare and autonomy." While athletics is not strictly cited, those against the proposition accidental the penning is connected the wall.

Nassau County lawmakers successful June voted to walk a measure that would prohibit transgender athletes from competing successful girls' and women’s sports astatine county-run facilities. 

The measure, which covers much than 100 sites conscionable extracurricular New York City, requires immoderate teams, leagues oregon organizations that question a licence from the county’s parks and recreation section to "expressly designate" whether they are for male, pistillate oregon coed athletes.

Demonstrators cheer during the speaking programme astatine 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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Any pistillate teams oregon leagues volition beryllium denied permits if they let transgender athletes to participate.

Fox News' Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.

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