(Washington Stand) It may feel like the country is finally embracing sanity on girls’ sports, but not everyone has boarded the bipartisan bandwagon. While Americans of all political stripes loathe the idea of biological boys competing against their daughters, there are still some powerful holdouts making life absolutely miserable for the brave voices demanding justice. And on both coasts, they’re paying a steep price for it.
Across California and Maine, the winds of change that blew in with Donald Trump are facing stiff resistance in the form of far-left local and state leaders. At a Wednesday school board meeting in Lucia Mar, a brave 17-year-old was interrupted by the board president as she was telling the emotional story of changing in front of a boy at track practice. In the locker room, she saw a biological boy “watching — not only myself — but the other young women undress.” Celeste Diest paused as the tears started to fall. “This experience,” she said, her voice quivering, “was beyond traumatizing.” (Read More)