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Female teammates of the swim team at Roanoke College in Virginia successfully blocked a biological male from joining the squad.
The transgender student had previously participated in men’s swimming with average performance before transitioning to a woman and wanting to join the women’s team.
College officials initially insisted on allowing the male student to join the women’s team. (Trending: Renown Doctor Obliterates COVID Vaccine)
However, the team’s three captains took action to block it. This includes Kate Pearson (19), Lily Mullens (20), and Bailey Gallagher (20).
The three students wrote a letter explaining it was not about discrimination against trans individuals, but their concern about maintaining fair competition within their team.
“Nobody knew what to do. Nobody thought that it would honestly get here. A lot of people, knowing this individual, thought that it wouldn’t get to the point of competition,” Pearson said.
She said others on the team say, “We do not want this to happen.”
“We kept getting put in these situations, and it was so stressful, and every single night we were discussing this through, discussing that,” Pearson added. (Trending: Democrats Prioritize Illegals Over U.S. Military Veterans)
“I was going to bed at 3 a.m. just thinking about it, thinking what could happen, what couldn’t happen, constantly stressed, crying just all the time—every single day. We just could not get a break from it — and we have studies,” she said.
They felt like the school didn’t care about how they felt. Pearson said it was “a big, kind of stab in the chest for all.”
“They were like, that just makes us feel so unheard by the school and unsupported, that they would allow all a whole entire women’s team to quit for one individual, and still just let like them make their own season. Like as a one-person team, right?” Pearson said.
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