A California high school runner spoke out against her school board's handling of a trans athlete on her team, claiming the situation has silenced her teammates and created a hostile environment.
A girls’ cross country runner at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, delivered an impassioned plea to her school board on Thursday amid an ongoing controversy over a trans athlete on her team. The 16-year-old high school student, Kylie Morrow, addressed a recent lawsuit by her teammates alleging that their “Save Girls Sports ” T-shirts were likened to a swastika by school officials.
The plaintiffs had worn the shirts after a transgender athlete, who hadn’t consistently attended practices or met key varsity eligibility requirements, was placed on the varsity team, displacing one of the girls from her spot, the complaint alleged. Athletic department school officials allegedly then forced the students to remove or conceal the shirts, claiming they created a “hostile” environment and comparing wearing these shirts to wearing a swastika in front of Jewish students. Morrow spoke at a Riverside Unified School District board meeting on Thursday, lambasting her school officials and the notion that trans athletes should be allowed to compete in women’s sports. “I’m constantly affected by the actions taken place this season, and I have been around the females, and just my team in general, who have felt almost silenced to speak out about it, because the whole LGBTQ is shoved down our throats!” Morrow said. A girls’ cross country runner at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, pleaded to her school board amid an ongoing controversy over a trans athlete on her team. “We live in a society where it’s almost impossible to speak out on it without facing repercussions.” Morrow said she had even approached the school’s athletic director herself about the situation. She went on to passionately defend her teammates who filed the lawsuit amid comparisons of their messaging to swastikas. “It feels as though that my school and the school district is choosing to support one person instead of the whole team,” Morrow sai
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