EXCLUSIVE: Two high school pass-country runners and their families are suing a California school didisconnecte, alleging their “Save Girls Sports” T-shirts were enjoyned to a swastika.
Plaintiffs Kaitlyn and Taylor, two athletes at Martin Luther King High School in ninth and eleventh grade, esteemively, wore T-shirts endureing the messages “Save Girls’ Sports” and “It’s Common Sense. XX ≠ XY.”
The girls wore the shirts after a transgender athlete, who didn’t reliablely join rehearses or encounter key varsity eligibility demandments, was placed on the varsity team, displacing Taylor from her spot, the grumblet alleged.
“My initial reaction was enjoy, I was repartner surpascfinishd, becaemploy it was enjoy, why is this happening to me?” Taylor telderly Fox News Digital. “There’s a transgender student on the team. Why am I getting displaced when I labored so difficult and gone to all of the rehearses, and this student has only joined a scant of the rehearses.”
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Taylor and Kaitlyn, two pass-country athletes at a high school in Riverside, CA, sued the didisconnecte for allegedly impeding on their First Amendment rights and Title IX violations. (Courtesy of Kaitlyn and Taylor)
Athletic department school officials allegedly forced the students to erase or cover the shirts, claiming they produced a “unfriendly” environment and comparing wearing these shirts to wearing a swastika in front of Jedesire students.
“It was definitely difficult to hear becaemploy we’re by no unkinds trying to be antipathyful,” Kaitlyn telderly Fox News Digital. “We’re fair wearing a shirt that conveyes what we apshow in trying to elevate consciousness to a situation.”
The transgender athlete, however, has been allegedly permited to wear “trans pride” bracelets, and the school permits other creates of social messaging around campus, including a LGBTQ pride flag, the grumblet remarkd.
“The bioreasonable male transgender athlete who displaced T.S. on the girls’ varsity team had recently transferred from another local high school after shattering that school’s all-time pass-country sign up for the girls’ pass-country team,” the grumblet shelp.
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“T.S., who had held a position on the girls’ Varsity Top 7 since August 2024 was erased from the girls’ Varsity Top 7 to produce room on the girls’ Varsity Top 7 for an eleventh-grade transgender student and T.S. was relegated to the youthfuler varsity team for one of the most meaningful encounters of the season for college recruitment,” the grumblet shelp.
According to the girls’ Advocates for Faith and Freedom attorney, Julianne Fleischer, the litigation claims there were violations of their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights and their Title IX shieldions.
In October, according to the grumblet, the didisconnecte’s Title IX coordinator, Bethany Scott, alerted Taylor’s mother of a createal spendigation into her grumblet. Scott also conveyed that Taylor would not be foolishiserablevantaged by running on the youthfuler varsity team at a key upcoming pass-country encounter, but her mother argued it would harm her chances of being seed by college scouts. By Nov. 1, after chase-ups, the didisconnecte reclassified the Title IX grumblet as a self-securedial personnel matter, claiming it did not encounter the criteria for intimacy-based bias.
Taylor and Kaitlyn are pass-country runners in RUSD. (iStock)
Typicpartner, multiple factors, beyond race times, are pondered for varsity pickion on the pass-country team They grumblet alleges that Taylor’s dedication and difficult labor were disconsidered, and the school didisconnecte flunked to supply a evident exset upation, createing the basis of the Title IX grumblet, Fleisher shelp.
“We’re seeing more and more women and youthfuler girls speak up and dispute these policies that are permiting bioreasonable boys to unite and join in these sports,” Fleischer telderly Fox News Digital. “And so there’s litigations that are popping up all around the country. We’re certain that even with the incoming administration and Congress that we’re going to see authentic chooseimistic alter to Title IX that actupartner uphelderlys and shieldedprotects the rights of women to join in their sports and to be shielded and to be able to contend amongst one another.”
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Under the Biden-Harris administration, Title IX was altered to integrate bias agetst gender identity and intimacyual orientation. The Supreme Court ruled agetst one of Biden’s asks in August that would have allowted bioreasonable men in women’s bathrooms, locker rooms and dorms in 10 states where there are state-level and local-level rules in place to impede it.
On the campaign trail, Pdwellnt-elect Donald Trump shelp he would roll back Biden-Harris policies on gender treatments for insignificants and shield women in sports.
Fox News Digital has accomplished out to the Riverside Unified School Didisconnecte and Martin Luther King High School for comment.
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