A female athlete is now suing the state of California after her school replaced her on her high school girls' varsity cross country team with a biological boy who “identified” as a girl.
Taylor Starling, a 16-year-old student at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, says she was understandably upset when she found out she’d lost her spot on the team to a male who had an impossible physical advantage over her, saying she felt like her hard work was being cast aside because she was a girl.
Here she is earlier this month speaking before state lawmakers about her experience:
WATCH: California high school student Taylor Starling tells state lawmakers she was removed from her cross-country team and replaced with a biological male transfer student. pic.twitter.com/5Aby114WeU
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"I felt angry when I was removed from my varsity team because I knew the requirements were changed for him because he is transgender. I felt like my sacrifice, hard work, and dedication didn’t matter to my school administrators because I am a girl. It was easy for them to push me aside and that hurt," Starling told Fox News Digital.
So, she’s suing. In November, Starling and her family, along with her teammate Kaitlyn Slavin, filed suit against the Riverside Unified School District. Now, she’s added California Attorney General Rob Bonta to the lawsuit, after President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February mandating that federally funded schools permit athletes to compete on teams and use sex-specific spaces in keeping with their biological gender, not their “identity.”
Starling’s attorney, Robert Tyler, said he asked the girls if they knew the backlash that could be headed their way before he filed the lawsuit on their behalf.
"I asked Taylor and Kaitlyn, 'Are you prepared to deal with this? Are you going to be able to walk through the hallways in her school and dislike you, call you names, and call you out?’ And they were."
Starling says her family and friends have had her back, but that she felt someone had to stand up for the girls and women who are losing their privacy, their safety, and their sports teams to gender-deluded boys and the woke leftists who insist on accommodating them.
Starling's bold stance in defense of herself and other female athletes prompted other students and parents to show up to class and after-school sporting events wearing t-shirts that read “Save Girls Sports.” In response, the school moved to ban the shirts, with the athletic director calling the attire “analogous to a student who wore a shirt with a swastika in front of a Jewish student" and comparing the wearers to "Nazis."
”I've already been called that by the athletic director, so by now, I'm kind of used to it," Starling said. "But it was a shock to everyone else, because he was also calling everyone else Nazis. So I think that caused a big reaction from everybody, and they were more willing to speak up against that."
Let's hope even more girls and women are willing to speak up to protect women's sports from being invaded by males who can't hack it on the guys' team. Because if the left had their way, there would be no women's sports at all.