These high-school cross-country girls could throw Democrats a curve

A dozen Washington state girl athletes just made national news by protesting rules that made them compete against a boy, but the state’s adults may make far bigger news next month by voting to toss those same rules.At a cross-country-team race Tuesday, the Camas HS girls did something their coaches presumably hadn’t trained them to do: They walked off the course.They were refusing to compete against a male teammate; other girls from rival Battle Ground also chose to walk the course in protest.Yet while it was the girls who left the race, it was the adults responsible for this travesty who stole their chances to compete — and that may soon change.The male runner, Logan Mihailoff, began the season competing for Camas in the boys’ junior-varsity division, finishing 76th at a Sept.5 race.A few weeks later, he switched to the girls’ division.His performance — er, relative performance — suddenly soared: On Sept.

26, he finished second among 195 girls in a race at the Nike Portland Invitational.Three days later, he won a girls’ varsity race against Union HS, finishing ahead of every single one of the 45 biological female runners.From 76th in boys’ junior varsity to first in girls’ varsity in 24 days. At the Oct.10 Hole in the Wall Invitational, an elite girls’ tournament, Mihailoff finished 39th among 135 girls in the elite race; his time would’ve placed him last among the 159 finishers in the boys’ elite race.On Tuesday he finished second in the girls’ varsity 5,000-meter event, beating at least a dozen girls.Pro-trans advocates argue that there are so few boys competing in girls’ sports that it’s a non-issue.

They cite percentages and ask why anyone should care.Yet while only one boy might identify as a girl, 100 female competitors may be impacted.Two Skyview HS female runners, Charlie Garrett and Sierra Retzlaff, began the protests.At a September meet against Camas, they lined up with messages supporting women’s sports painted on the...