Girls track athlete opens up on losing title to California trans competitor: Nothing that we can do
A high school track meet in Southern California became the latest flashpoint in the state’s ongoing conflict with President Donald Trump’s administration over trans athletes in girls’ sports.There, multiple girls’ competitors fell shy of first place to a biologically male trans athlete.The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Southern Section Final on Saturday saw the trans athlete take first place in the triple jump and long jump.The second-place finisher in the long jump was Katie McGuinness of La Canada High School.McGuinness recounted the experience of losing to the trans athlete in an interview on Fox News’ “America Reports.”“I remember thinking to myself, ‘OK, I need to get a big jump,’” McGuinness said.“I ran down the runway and I landed and I watched them measure my mark, and it was 18.9,” she said.
“And I just remember thinking that there was nothing else that I could do.That was it.
And I was honestly very discouraged, and I’m a high school senior and winning CIF has always been a goal of mine, and I wasn’t able to compete with someone who was genetically different than me.”McGuinness made her overall stance on the issue clear.“There are just certain genetic advantages that biological males have that biological girls don’t,” she said.“Frankly, I just can’t stand for that.”The second-place finisher to the trans athlete in triple jump, Reese Hogan of Crean Lutheran High School, made it a point to stand on the first-place podium spot for a quick and symbolic photo op.
Footage of Hogan taking the top podium spot after the trans athlete stepped off went viral on social media over the weekend.Hogan had just competed against the trans athlete in the prelims a week earlier.At that event, Hogan also came in behind the trans athlete in the triple jump, finishing third, and would have placed one spot higher were it not for the trans athlete.
But Hogan did finish ahead of the trans athlete in the high jump.“It...