Outrage over high school trans runner rising to 4th in girls’ division after placing 172nd in boys’By Lindsay Kornick, Fox News
Published Oct. 5, 2023
Parents and students were outraged over a transgender runner competing with the girls in the Maine XC Festival of Champions on Saturday.
Maine Coast Waldorf School high school sophomore Soren Stark-Chessa previously competed in the boys’ category for the school one year prior.
In the 5k division, Stark-Chessa ranked approximately 172nd among males in the state.
After transitioning, however, the runner shot up to 4th place in the girls’ division.
High school track mom Katherine Collins from Winterport, Maine, later spoke with “Fox & Friends” about the event, calling out the “unfairness” of the race.
“It’s all a matter of unfairness. The men are bigger, stronger, and faster than women,” Collins said.
She also criticized the Maine Principals Association for allowing the transgender runner to compete based on its “Gender Equity and Inclusion Policy.”
“Obviously, there is an unfair advantage, but they’ve allowed this. Last year, in outdoor track, in the Class-C state meet, two boys participated. One podiumed and was moved on to the New England track meet. So a girl was put aside and not allowed to medal and not allowed to participate in a higher level because of this boy,” Collins explained.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/10/05/outrage-over-high-school-trans-runner-rising-to-4th-in-girls-division-after-placing-172nd-in-the-boys/
