Sixteen-year-old Taylor Starling was removed from her high school’s cross-country team and replaced with a boy pretending to be a girl.
Starling and Kaitlyn Slavin, 15, filed a federal lawsuit against Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California.
The “transgender” athlete told ABC News that the girls just need to get over their anger and frustration.
“I understand my teammates’ disappointment in not getting the spot they hoped for, but I hope they can understand my deep pain and disappointment at how they and their families are handling it,” said ML. “It’s hateful, it’s divisive and it’s not how we should treat one another.”
To protest the boy being put on the team – Taylor and a female teammate wore shirts that said, “Save Girls Sports.” The shirt also included another message: “It’s common sense. XX does not equal XY.”
According to the lawsuit the school’s athletic director told her to remove the shirt – said it was like wearing a swastika in front of a Jewish person.
“I was not trying to be hateful by any means,” Kaitlyn said in an interview on Fox News. “We didn’t want to target nobody. Me and Taylor are nice people, and we want others to know that. This was just something that we believe in. We believe biological males should not be competing against females, and we’re just saying what we believe.”
Parents got involved but they were told by the school’s principal that the shirts create a “hostile environment.”
Taylor and her teammate are being represented by Advocates for Faith & Freedom. The organization says the lawsuit is about free speech, fair play and the fundamental right of girls to compete on a level playing field.
“Their lawsuit not only challenges the school’s selective enforcement of its dress code but demands a court ruling to restore fairness and integrity to girls’ sports,” the organization said in a statement. “This case is about more than two young athletes; it’s a stand for free speech, fair play and the fundamental right of girls to compete on a level playing field without being sidelined by ideologies that disregard biological differences.”
California law dictates that the rights of the LGBT community transcend everyone else’s rights — especially girls.
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