California girls' track star reveals furious verdict on trans athlete who beat her
Katie McGuinness of La Canada High School competed in the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section Final over the weekend, and placed second in the long jump.
But a trans athlete wound up winning both the long jump and triple jump, and McGuinness expressed her disappointment in the situation in a recent interview.
'There are just certain genetic advantages that biological males have that biological girls don't,' she told Fox News' 'America Reports.' 'Frankly, I just can't stand for that.'
She also recalled the events from the meet on Saturday, saying: 'I ran down the runway and I landed and I watched them measure my mark, and it was 18.9.
'And I just remember thinking that there was nothing else that I could do. That was it. And I was honestly very discouraged, and I'm a high school senior and winning CIF has always been a goal of mine, and I wasn't able to compete with someone who was genetically different than me.'
Reese Hogan also placed second to the trans competitor in the triple jump, and posed on the winner's podum after
In the triple jump category, Crean Lutheran High School's Reese Hogan finished in second to the same trans competitor.
After posing alongside the winner and third-place finisher on the podium (in the second-place spot), Hogan briefly posed in the winner's podium spot - resulting in viral attention and an endorsement from anti-trans activist Riley Gaines.
'When the boy got off the podium, she assumed her rightful spot as champion,' Gaines wrote on X. 'The crowd erupts with applause. THIS is the way. Congrats to ReeseHogan , the REAL champ!!!'
Hogan had previously competed against the trans athlete and told Fox News Digital: 'It's just kind of sad just watching. He's obviously a really talented athlete, we've all seen him jump and stuff, and I wish him the best of luck, but in a boys' division.
'It's pretty obvious the certain advantages that he has, and it's obviously just sad as a woman to watch that.'
The issue of trans athletes competing in women's sports has been in the spotlight even more since President Donald Trump signed an executive order entitled 'Keeping Men out of Women's Sports' in February.
His administration has been at war with the state of Maine over its alleged failure to comply with his stance, while the CIF has previously come under fire as well.
This past winter, a transgender basketball player dominated play in California, but ultimately did not participate in a playoff game amid fury at the situation.
Fox News Digital reported at the time that Trump's Department of Education and Office of Civil Rights was investigating the CIF, and that the trans athlete's school was not the only one in California flouting Trump's executive order.
Nonetheless, despite the federal ruling on trans athletes, California has had a law in place since 2014 that allows trans athletes to compete in girls' sports.
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