Five middle school students who refused to participate in a shot put competition against a transgender “girl” earlier this month have been banned from all future competitions.
According to this, the Harrison Board of Education voted to bar five young teen girls from Lincoln Middle School from future sporting events after they declined to participate in an unfairly weighted event against a biological boy. Becky Pepper-Jackson, a 13-year-old biological male who ran track on her middle school's girls team despite not actually being a girl, had sued the state over a 2021 West Virginia law that mandated students in public schools and colleges compete on teams that matched their biological gender, regardless of their “identity.”
On April 18, two days after a Richmond-based U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed sided with Pepper-Jackson, he took part in a girls’ track-and-field competition as a female, prompting five actual young ladies to refuse to participate in protest of being pitted against a boy. Instead, one by one, the students stepped into position before simply walking away, voluntarily forfeiting.
NEW: Five girls from Lincoln Middle School who refused to compete against a transgender athlete during a shot put competition have been BANNED from the next competition.
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According to the final score, Pepper-Jackson won the meet by three full feet, ending the meet with a 32-foot throw. The second place runner-up - an actual female athlete - finished with a 29-foot throw.
Related: Trans 'Female' Wins Middle School Girls' Shot Put Competition By Three Feet
But instead of protecting girls against being forced to compete against biological boys, the local school board voted in favor of punishing the girls for standing up for themselves, leading West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morris to file a lawsuit against the Harrison County Bard of Education on behalf of the banned students.
“I will do everything in my power to defend these brave young girls. This is just wrong,” he said, adding, “We must stand for what’s right and oppose these radical trans policies.”
“The only thing this decision does is teach these children to keep their mouths shut and not disagree with what they saw as unfairness,” he went on. “That is outrageous and it tramples these students’ rights to freedom of speech and expression.”
Morrisey said he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the state law banning students from competing on teams that don’t match their biological gender.
The message to women from the radical left here is clear: allow biological males into your spaces, surrender your privacy and your trophies and your achievements to them, and resist at your own peril.
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