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An American school is on the spot for allowing a trans athlete to compete with girls in a cross-country race amidst claims of favoritism.
A US school is currently on the spot after allowing a transgender athlete to compete with girls in a cross-country event.
California's Riverside Unified School District (RUSD) is at the centre of the controversy after a transgender athlete was permitted to compete on the girls' cross-country team, leading to widespread complaints from parents this week.
What has added fuel to the fire is that it is the same district that punished students from Martin Luther King High School for wearing shirts that read "Save Women's Sports," saying they created a hostile environment, after they called out their hypocrisy for favouring trans athletes.
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As per Outkick, a mother came with the school’s science textbook, which teaches students at the school about the clear difference between males and females, questioning why they are allowing biological males to compete on the girls’ team.
"This is what you did to students who wore the shirt I'm wearing tonight, for claiming a biological fact that's in your textbook, that's part of your curriculum. Are we going to put tape on the textbooks next? Is that what's going to happen, we're not going to teach science?" she asked.
"You are denying biological facts to not hurt someone's feelings, and that's not okay!"
A father, with triplets at the school, claimed the trans athletes receive preferential treatment given the rest are told they cannot miss practice but the former are allowed to, suggesting that they attended 14 of 17 training sessions.
“They were given preferential treatment so that they did not have to come to practice. That's why we're here. That's why this all came about, and the administration knew about it," he said.
The controversy comes days after World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said he will ban transgender athletes from competing at the Olympics if he is elected the next International Olympics Committee boss.
"We've taken the lead at World Athletics, as you know, and I think for me the principle is very clear," Lord Coe said this month.
"But if you have a vacuum around this policy position, then you end up with some of the things that we witnessed in Paris,” he added, referring to a situation where Algerian boxer Imane Khelif was allowed to compete as a woman at the Paris Olympics amidst questions over her gender.
"We've been very clear in World Athletics that transgender athletes will not be competing in the female category at elite level,” said Coe.
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