Teen girls open on a translette scandal that turned their high school into a cultural war battlefield
Taylor Starling and Kaitlyn Slavin – Student Athletes in Martin Luther King High School In Riverside, California – held a live press conference on the X on Friday she hosted the director of California Family Council Sophia Lorey. Two girls shared their perspectives on a recent national controversy that surrounded their community caused by a trans -sportski who competed on a team for girls.
“It was confusing, this never happened to me before, as if I didn’t even think it would happen to me,” Starling said. “Everything was, surprising, that it would be The guy running with Girls. “
Slavin, who is just a freshman, said that the experience of his first year of high school was the involvement of the “kind of crazy” situation.
“Only in high school, he has to compete against the male when you should not be something that shocked me immediately,” Slavin said.
Starling lost her place for a trans -athlete who moved to school last year, and when they wore shirts that read “Save Girls Sports” in protest, they claim that school administrators compared shirts with swastika. Two girls and their families are now engaged a lawsuit Against Riverside Unified School District (Rusd) for these accusations.
In response, hundreds of their colleagues and hundreds of other residents in the community began to wear shirts in protest. The shirts became local and then a national symbol for the protection of athletes from biological male involvement in their sports and locker rooms.
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The controversy and the media coverage of the situation was initiated by two teenagers, their families and the whole city in the center of attention of the national discussion of transition involvement in women’s sports, which became a political issue of hot buttons in the 2024 election year.
And for Starling, the faucet and their classmates, it came with a wave of attention that they never experienced, both negative and positive.
“I had a ton of people who address me and say,” Thank you very much for what you do and advocate for these women, “Starling said.” For my friends, many of my friends are proven to your shoulders because they wore shirts and a lot of them cursed and called really bad names, and they posted certain things on the internet, calling people with terrible names to carry this shirt. ”
Slavin, who says he has found stressful relief throughout his life, has only found more stress from sports this year because of sports.
“It’s scary that it’s not something that can always be a place to relieve stress if we are all going on,” Slavin said. “It affects you mentally and emotionally … It’s so hard for all this to happen.”
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The supporters of transgender athletes hold the left -side inscriptions as Tori Hitchcock, Center, from young women for America, and Salomay McCullough, to the right, both of the athletes, show their shirts “Save Girls Sports” as full of a bunch of converges outside the river Unified meeting of the school district Thursday night to discuss the rights of transgender athletes to compete in high school sports on Thursday, December 19, 2024. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Starling says the trans athlete has been using a toilet for girls at school, however, the athlete did not see much in the locker room because of the often missing practice.
Two girls and more parents who spoke with Fox News Digital claim that the Trans Athlete was allowed to compete in Varsity, despite being gone every week.
Starling’s father, Ryan Starling, earlier told Fox News Digital that, when his daughter and other girls approached the administrators about it, “transgenders have more rights than Cisgender.” Rusd previously made a statement to Fox News Digital, insisting that his resolution of the situation is in accordance with the Law of the State of California.
Two girls then lit a viral trend in their communities when they appeared at school in November, carrying “Save Girls Sports” shirts.
And despite the fact that school administrators overrun it and had to file a lawsuit, more and more students began to appear every week carrying shirtsAs the school had to change her dress code and start putting students in custody for wearing. This did not prevent the spread and growth of shirts. This became a weekly ritual for hundreds of students every Wednesday to appear, carrying T -shirts supporting girls and their messages, and many of them created viral posts on social networks.
At the beginning of December school administrators give up In their efforts to discipline students to wear shirts. The sources told Fox News Digital that more than 400 students appeared on their shirts at once, and students in other schools in the district began to wear them in teaching.
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High school students Martin Luther King in Riverside, California, wear T -shirts that read “Save Girls Sports” to protest against athletes on the Cross Country team. (Kindness Sophia Lorey)
But Slavin, the Starling of their lawyer Julianne Fleischer, said the school administrators still told two girls that they were not allowed to wear shirts during a news conference on Friday. However, they also said that more than 400 students at their school continued to appear, carrying shirts every Wednesday.
The situation culminated in a violent and confrontation event on December 19, when Rusd held a meeting of the school board to solve the problem. Before the meeting, outside the District Office, protests were competing between the activists and parents who wore “Save Girls Sports” shirts and LGBTQ activists.
Sources, including Ryan Starling, have said Fox News Digital That LGBTQ activists at the event harassed the protesters of “Save Girls Sports” and even disrupted the female prayer group during the prayer circle before the meeting.
“Pro-lgbtq groups started heckling and harassing people in order that spoke opposition to their values. Some of these adult protesters even came to young girls who would speak and yell at them closely on their face,” President of the Young Inner Empire Women for America (YWA) Tori Hitchcock told Fox News Digital.
One anonymous parent told Fox News Digital about the testimony of a child who was bombarded with vulgar insults after the meeting after the meeting.
Fans of transgender athletes Kyle Harp, to the left, from Riversida, keeps the flag progress pride as supporters of “Save Girls Sports” Lori Lopez and her father Pete Pickering, both of Riverside, listening to the discussion while joining the pile of overflowing that was approaching outside the Riverside Unified School meeting District Thursday night to discuss the rights of transgender athletes to compete in high school sports on Thursday, December 19, 2024. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
“My 16-year-old son and a few others stood out after they talked when the LGBTQ community group deliberately walked into showing each of them, saying,” Fu fu fu, “said an anonymous parent.
Then, within the meeting, parents and opponent’s activists gave messy talk about their thinking about the situation, with more speakers shouting in hysterical tones. The meeting lasted almost five hours and involved the testimony between individuals who opposed the trance of involvement in the sports of girls and those who supported him.
Many Pro-trans speeches welcomed with high fans and renunciation of LGBTQ flags of pride by those present.
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Rusd previously made a statement to Fox News Digital, insisting that his resolution of the situation is in accordance with the Law of the State of California.
“Although these rules did not create a rusd, the district is dedicated to compliance with the law and regulations of the CIF. The California law of the state prohibits the discrimination of students on the basis of gender, gender identity and expression of gender, and in particular prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender into physical education and athletics.
Rusd also blamed the situation at the Sacramento capital at Washington’s Sacramento capital. They made this statement in early December, before President Donald Trump returned to duty.
Save Girls Sports “Skylar Crawford, Left, and Jadeynn Gallardo, both of the Martin Luther King High School, and Tori Hitchcock, right, from young women for America, are praying among the crowded audiences converging outside the meeting in a unique school district in Thursday night to discuss the rights of transgender athletes to compete in high school sports on Thursday, December 19, 2024. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
“As these questions are played in our courts and media, opposition and protests should be focused on those who are able to influence these laws and policies (including the DC and Sacramento Washington officials,” the statement said.
Trump has undertaken to ban Trans athletes to compete in maiden and women’s sports, because the federal proposal of the law, entitled Women and Girls Protection in Sports Law, is currently progressing through Congress. He has already passed in the House of Representatives.
While this bill of law is potentially reported, Slavin and Starling ask their supporters to “pray” for them.
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