Transgender pitcher leads team to Minnesota softball state championship

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After a dramatic, walk-off victory in Wednesday’s semi-finals, the Champlin Park rebels head to the Minnesota High School Softball State Championship. Transgender pitcher Marissa Rothenberger.

After giving up two early runs in a volatile start, Rothenberger settled and pitched a full game, in the Class AAA state semi-finals, No. 6 supported the second seam Sham Pulling Park Edge past White Bear Lake (3-2). Rothenberger He gave up seven hits and two runs (one win) and hit three innings Make an effort.

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Marissa Rothenberger celebrates with her teammates in a dugout after a dramatic victory at Champurin Park. (Amber Harding)

But it was Rothenberger’s blow that really caused the comeback. Junior led five innings to lead with a double, starting a Champlin Park rally to tie the game with two. Rothenberger then went 2-3 at the plate at the seventh bottom, and opened the innings with another double. Rothenberger was replaced by a “cosy runner” and ultimately scored a game-winning run with two walk-off hits from junior outfielder Ava Parent.

Champlin Park will face fourth-seeded Bloomington Jefferson in the championship game held at University of Minnesota’s Jane Sage Cowles Stadium on Friday. Jefferson disrupts top seed Forest Lake early on Wednesday.

However, Champlin Park celebrated the walk-off victory, but the scene in the White Bear Lake dugout was very different. Many of the girls were visibly emotional and shed tears, as the reality of the season-ending loss began.

One player turned to his father and asked, “Why can’t you do anything?”

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Although their parents didn’t want to appear on the record, Outkick spoke with two White Bear Lake fathers in the stands where he expressed deep frustration at the system that allowed his daughters to compete with male athletes, Democrat politicians who prioritize ideology over fairness.

“You’re looking at the whole team of future Republicans,” one man said.

Another dad agreed that this could be an eye-opening experience for his parents. “They like them,” I probably made the wrong choice. ”

Despite President Donald Trump’s executive order, the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) allows student-athletes to compete in events that match their gender identity, regardless of biological gender. MSHSL said the eligibility of transgender student-athletes is “determined by state law through the Minnesota Human Rights Act and the Minnesota Constitution.”

Despite national governing bodies like the US softball and the NCAA, such state-level laws create loopholes for enforcement that parents and female athletes feel helpless, despite enacting women-only eligibility policies.

And today, in Northern Mankato, Minnesota, that feeling of helplessness was written all over the faces of White Bear Lake players.

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