A video of a transgender high school athlete zipping past her competitors and leaving them behind at a track and field meet has sparked outrage online., shows McDaniel High School sophomore Aayden Gallagher speeding past a group of biological female athletes and keeping a great distance between them and her before she ultimately crosses the finish line at the 25.49-second mark, the NY Post reports.
Gallagher has also said she would take hormone replacement therapy, telling her high school newspaper last year that she believed it would make her “a lot more confident because right now I’m just going to keep on getting more and more masculine — more facial hair, stuff like that.But as the video of her victory at the Sherwood Need for Speed spread over the weekend, many online said she has an unfair advantage over the biological female athletes.
“I want to know why his parents are allowing him to mock female athletes, why his coach is allowing him to cheat and why these girls’ coaches and parents aren’t speaking up,” she posted online. “Please stop pretending like this is anything other than telling young female athletes they don’t matter.”One parent, who said her daughter also competed in the 200-meter race, blasted the video as “insane.”The mother wrote that the athletes come from across Oregon to compete in the event “and this is what they got — being beaten by a boy.”