A cross-country runner in California says that she and her teammates had to take off their “Save Girls Sports” shirts because their school didn’t care about worries about a transgender teammate.
“I’ve been around women, and just my team in general, who have felt like they couldn’t say anything about it because LGBTQ issues are pushed down our throats. Going into a locker room and seeing men there… That doesn’t feel safe to me. “It’s not okay,” student Rylee Morrow told district leaders in a passionate speech that has since gone viral on the internet.
“I’m a girl of sixteen.” “There are girls around me, and not having boys around makes us feel unsafe,” she said.
A lawyer at Advocates for Faith & Freedom named Julianne Fleischer is helping two of Morrow’s friends sue the Riverside Unified School District (RUSD) for two different reasons.
She went on “Fox & Friends” with Morrow early Tuesday morning and talked about the court battle with RUSD. One case that involves the shirt is a case of free speech.
“They wore it [the shirts] to their practice, and the athletic director told them that they needed to hide their shirt or change their shirts because that message, ‘Save Girls Sports,’ creates a hostile environment,” she said.
Morrow told Fox News that she will keep fighting for all women and girls, not just the ones close to her.
“Having a boy on our team could be genetically beneficial for that student.” I don’t want to use this opportunity to only support my team, though. I’ve decided to speak out for women and kids all over the world.
The Riverside Unified School District had this to say when asked for comment: “It is important to remember that RUSD is bound by California law, which says that students must be ‘permitted to participate in sex-segregated school programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, consistent with his or her gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on the pupil’s records’.”
“While these rules were not created by RUSD, the District is committed to complying with the law and CIF regulations.”
The second problem with the district is an athlete called Taylor who was supposedly switched out for a biological male runner on the varsity team.
“This student did not meet any of the requirements to be in the varsity top seven.” That requirement for qualifying was blown out of the water by Taylor. When replacing Taylor, the sports director only looked at the students’ time as a qualification. Based on the fact that he is biologically male and did run faster than my client, we filed this Title IX claim against the School District, Fleischer said.
