Trans athlete tells critics to get a life after dominating girls high school track and field state championship for second year straight

A transgender athlete told her booing critics to “get a life” after dominating the girls’ Washington state track high school championship for the second year in a row — prompting the runner-up to receive praise from the crowd and Riley Gaines.Verónica Garcia, 17, won the Class 2A 400-meter dash by nearly a second at Mount Tahoma High School on Saturday — a year after becoming the state’s first trans athlete to win a state title, according to the Seattle Times.The East Valley High School athlete had been heckled throughout the day and faced open criticism from attendees and competitors.At the warm-up for the race, a man near the starting blocks wore a shirt that read, “Save women’s sports” — and yelled “Let’s go girls!” and “girls’ race!” repeatedly, according to the outlet.An opposing relay team from Tumwater was also seen wearing black T-shirts that read “Keep Women’s Sports Female” before and after the race.Later on, as the medal ceremony was underway, the crowd greeted every athlete with roaring cheers until Garcia took to the podium and received a fury of boos for the second year straight.“I’ll be honest, I kind of expect it,” Garcia told the outlet.“But it maybe didn’t have their intended effect.It made me angry, but not angry as in, I wanted to give up, but angry as in, I’m going to push.”“I’m going to put this in the most PG-13 way, I’m just going to say it’s a damn shame they don’t have anything else better to do.

I hope they get a life.But oh well.

It just shows who they are as people,” she added.West Valley junior Lauren Matthew came in second place to Garcia in the 400m for the second year in a row.Matthew was later seen pictured with a sign that read “Washington State Track and Field Real Girls 2A 400m Champion,” and even received praise from former NCAA swimmer and women’s sports activist Riley Gaines.“Update from Lauren Matthew, the real state champ!” Gaines posted on X.Follo...