High School Boy ‘Identifies’ as Girl, Trounces Opponents in Track Meet

Kate Hall felt a lot of pressure coming into this year’s track and field championship. Hall had won the Class M state championship last year as a sophomore. Expectations were high.

That gave Hall, a Stonington High School junior, even higher expectations for Tuesday’s Class M state track and field championship at Willow Brook Park, where she was focused on a repeat in the 100 meters and was also one of the top seeds in the 200, in which she finished in the top 10 in New England last year.

But, then things took a bizarre twist. A freshman student from a different school won both the 100 and the 200. Andraya Yearwood, a transgender student-athlete competed at the championships for the first time as a girl.

Yearwood is a transgender athlete who competed for Cromwell as a girl for the first time on April 5, winning both sprints in a tri-meet against Portland and Old Saybrook.

Yearwood won the 100 in 12.66 seconds, edging Hall, who was second in 12.83. Yearwood was then first in the 200 in 26.08. Woodland’s Erika Michie was second in 26.38 and Hall, the Eastern Connecticut Conference champion in the event, third in 26.65.

There are biological differences between boys and girls. Biology 101. It would seem appropriate then for Yearwood to show some consideration for her new sisterhood and acknowledge her advantages with humility. But, no. Entitlement seemed to be the name of the game.

“It feels really good. I’m really happy to win both titles,” Yearwood said after her performance in the Class M meet. “I kind of expected it. I’ve always gotten first, so I expected it to some extent. … I’m really proud of it.”

Hall is understandably struggling to come to terms with reconciling her competitive spirit with biological discrimination.

Hall admits to being competitive. That was the primary reason for the tears she wiped away Tuesday. Losing to anyone isn’t her favorite thing. She called the situation “frustrating.”

Even her coach acknowledges the struggle Hall is facing to push her body to compete against boys.

“Kate’s emotional,” said Stonington coach Ben Bowne, the head boys’ coach and the overall sprints coach for the Bears’ boys’ and girls’ programs. “She works really hard. I’ve just been telling Kate all year, ‘Just run your best. She’s going to help you run better. … (Kate) is a really competitive athlete. She doesn’t like to lose to anybody. She’s a competitor. To run the best, you’ve got to go against good competition.”

There is little she can do about this situation. Furthermore, PC schools would likely penalize her or remove her from the team for complaining about having to compete against transgender athletes. So, despite the unfairness Hall refuses to speak negatively of competing against transgendered athletes.

“I just need to take it as a positive thing. Get through it. Perform the best you can,” Hall said.

Yearwood on the other hand can’t get enough of the attention that comes from beating girls and gold medals.

Yearwood, meanwhile, said she’s used to the attention she’s drawing at this point.
“I’m getting attention from places I don’t even know about,” she said with a smile.

Yearwood’s Mother is also delighted at the new found athletic success of her son.

“I know they’ll say it is unfair and not right,” Yearwood’s mother, Ngozi Nnaji, told the Courant. “But my counter to that is: ‘Why not?’ She is competing and practicing and giving her all and performing and excelling based on her skills. Let that be enough. Let her do that and be proud of that.”

Yes, why not let boys compete as girls. Let them do that and just be proud. The ironies of the political agenda that champions both feminism and transgender rights.

The world is limitless for male athletes who feel like women. Just ask Lauren Hubbard, the male turned female weightlifter who now gets to compete in the female division after trying as a man didn’t work out so well.

There is an agenda behind transgender athletes and it goes far beyond men wanting to compete in easier divisions. Think about Body Dysmorphia. It’s a real psychological condition. But, doctors don’t prescribe or encourage plastic surgery because people have a distorted perception of their physical appearance. No, they treat the mental root of the problem causing them to have a disconnect from reality.

But, what about Gender Dysmorphia? Why do doctors instead allow patients to undergo risky life altering procedures shown to reduce mental health and high suicide rates? Liberal transgender advocates peddle dangerous lies. Most people who undergo a sex change or outwardly transgender regret their decision. They want to kill themselves. Their feelings of identity confusion and disconnect from reality are stronger than ever. This is not surprising. It’s obvious. People suffering from Gender Dysmorphia are not receiving appropriate treatment and it’s a moral outrage.

• 41% of transgenders attempt suicide
• 25% increase risk of transgenders successfully committing suicide over general population

“…a review of more than 100 international medical studies of post-operative transgender patients by the University of Birmingham Aggressive Research Intelligence Facility found “no robust scientific evidence that gender reassignment surgery is clinically effective…”

Liberals try to paint those who suggest psychological help for people struggling with gender issues as being cruel and patronizing. However, have you ever heard anyone on the left advocating public health plan’s funding pro-anorexia initiatives and plastic surgery for those suffering from body dysmorphia? No. Because it’s an established fact that people with Body Dysmorphia don’t actually look how they feel and their perception of reality is flawed not their physical appearance.

That is the context to the left’s push to add transgender rights to their sadistic list of advocated moral/social breakdowns and population control.

Update: Breitbart reports that he has ‘swamped’ the competition. Surprise!

A once highly recognized high school girl’s track star from New Britain, Connecticut, has lost her usual first place spot to a boy who “identifies” as a girl on an opposing high school track team, and her loss sparks many questions about fairness and rights.
Kate Hall, a junior at a Stonington High School, has spent several years typically coming in at the top in track competition. Until this year, that is. This year she has routinely lost that top spot because opposing Cromwell High accepted a boy claiming to be a transgender girl onto its track team.

Freshman Andraya Yearwood, 15, a biological male who identifies as a girl, received permission to join the Cromwell High girls track team after competing as a boy in middle school. Not surprisingly, Yearwood has been extremely successful as a male competing against females.

Source: The Day, The Witherspoon Institute , Breitbart