Runner slams her California high school and pleads for trans athlete to be removed

A pistillate transverse state runner astatine a California precocious schoolhouse issued an impassioned plea to the schoolhouse committee this week amid ongoing contention surrounding a trans athlete connected her team. 

A transgender runner astatine Martin Luther King High School successful Riverside, California, was placed connected the school's team, displacing 1 miss from her spot, contempt reportedly failing to consistently attending practices oregon met cardinal varsity eligibility requirements. 

In response, her teammates wore t-shirts featuring the slogan, 'Save Girls Sports,' which were likened to a swastika by schoolhouse officials, according to Fox News. 

The diversion department's officials allegedly forced the girls to region the t-shirts, claiming that they created a 'hostile' situation and likened them to wearing the insignia of the German Nazi Party successful beforehand of Jewish students. 

Now, Kylie Morrow, a 16-year-old pupil connected the transverse state team, has addressed the contention astatine a Riverside Unified School District committee meeting. 

Speaking Thursday, Morrow slammed her schoolhouse and the conception that trans athletes should beryllium allowed to compete successful women's sports, opening up connected however the concern has affected her and her teammates. 

'I'm perpetually affected by the actions taken spot this season, and I person been astir the females, and conscionable my squad successful general, who person felt astir silenced to talk retired astir it, due to the fact that the full LGBTQ is shoved down our throats!' Morrow said.

'We unrecorded successful a nine wherever it's astir intolerable to talk retired connected it without facing repercussions.' 

Morrow besides revealed that she had personally approached the school's diversion manager to support her teammates implicit the comparisons of their t-shirt protests to swastikas. 

'It feels arsenic though that my schoolhouse and the schoolhouse territory is choosing to enactment 1 idiosyncratic alternatively of the full team,' Morrow said. 

'To spot the diversion manager crook astir and archer my teammates that their shirts that say, 'Save girl's sports' beryllium compared to a swastika, that is not okay. These girls consciousness silenced, they felt silenced, and erstwhile they yet did thing to talk retired against it . . . they were wholly stabbed successful the back.' 

Morrow added that she felt 'unsafe' successful a concern wherever she was forced to stock a locker country with a biologic male.

'It is not good that I person to beryllium successful position, and I person to spot a antheral successful booty shorts, and having to spot that astir me, arsenic a 16-year-old miss I don't spot that arsenic a harmless environment,' Morrow said. 

'Going into a locker country and seeing males successful there, I don't find that safe, I don't find going to the bath harmless erstwhile there's guys successful there. It's not okay. I'm a 16-year-old girl!' 

Two of Morrow's teammates, identified as Kaitlyn and Taylor, filed a suit against Martin Luther King High School aft the school's alleged complaints implicit their t-shirts. 

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

Meanwhile, some girls were near shocked by the school's comparisons of their t-shirts to swastikas. 

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

The contention surrounding trans information successful women's sports embroiled different California precocious schoolhouse earlier this week. 

Stone Ridge Christian, a central-California precocious school, made headlines erstwhile it forfeited an upcoming girls volleyball playoff lucifer successful protestation of a transgender subordinate connected opposing San Francisco Waldorf this week. 

The forfeiture besides comes amid the ongoing contention surrounding San Jose State's women's team, which has seen a drawstring of opponents forfeit matches to protestation the Spartans' Blaire Fleming, a prima subordinate who is reportedly transgender.