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Like California Transgender athlete conflict As it escalated, one high school athlete relied on changing clothes in the car to avoid unpleasant situations.
Lucia Mar Unified School District (LMUSD) Board of Education Meeting This week, junior Audrey Van Helg revealed her decision.
“I strongly disagree with what’s going on in the girls’ locker room or in the girls’ track teams. So I feel much more comfortable than doing it in my school locker room, so I turn to track practice in my car,” Vanherweg said.
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Vanherweg is not the first LMUSD girl to express her anxiety in the track and field locker room this season.
between April meetingIt is said that the experience of having to change in front of a biological male trans athlete before practice, a fellow junior track athlete saw her attire.
“I went to the women’s locker room and exchanged at the end of the line for track practice seen by biological men, not just myself but other young women, who were undressing. This experience was beyond trauma.”
California Dem compares the law “preserving women’s sports” with Nazi Germany.
“Adults like you make me, and my peers feel our own comfort is ineffective, even if our privacy is completely infringed.”
Both meetings included several parents who spoke in opposition to transathletes, while other community members spoke in support of trans-inclusion. Both conferences included as many speakers as they advocated for trans athletes.
At this week’s meeting, Transfield athletes described their decision to join the women’s team while wearing the transgender pride flag.
“When I joined the track last year, I was terrified,” the athlete said. “I was alone, I was afraid of my life. When I started tracking practices, I was too scared to make friends. I thought they would reject me and chuckle because they were transgender. At my first convention, I was sitting alone on wet, muddy ground.
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“I walked on thin razor ice because I feared that someone would accuse me of a heinous crime. I never spent more than three minutes in the locker room. “Even so, people still blame me. I’m a predator, someone who deals with sexual harassment on a daily basis. So I say I’m not a villain, I’m a victim.”
Riley Gaines, a women’s rights activist and former NCAA swimmer, has previously told Fox News Digital that he believes that trans athletes involved in the current culture war are victims.
“I see them as victims too. I really do. They have become victims of the movement. They unfortunately fell for the lie that they were unique and intentionally not created in the perfect image of God. That’s a terrible message to send to anyone.” Gaines said.
“I think they are victims too. That’s the sad reality of the gender ideological movement.”
California has allowed trans athletes to compete in women’s sports since 2014. California Interscholastic Federation (CIF), a California high school sports league, was one of the first to openly refuse to “exclude men from women’s sports” after it was signed on February 5th.
The CIF is currently investigating the U.S. Department of Education for potential Title IX violations on the issue.
California’s state legislature did not pass two GOP-backed bills to reverse current policies allowed by men in women’s sports after Democrats voted on April 1.
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