I’m a female athlete who fought to protect girls in sports and won at the Supreme Court

I’m a high school athlete. Girls just like me must share sports, locker rooms and even hotel rooms with biological males. The Supreme Court just gave me a chance to fix that.

Adaleia Cross is a 15-year-old student in West Virginia. 

That all changed when a male a grade behind me chose to identify as a girl and joined our team — focusing on the same sports I did. As seasons passed, I soon saw how male size and strength could beat even my greatest efforts — and those of most other girls, too.   Over these last two years, this one student has displaced almost 300 different female athletes — beating them in competition and taking their places at meets — over 700 times.   I saw a lot of that firsthand. Almost every day, in the locker room, out on the track and in the throwing pits for discus and shot put, this student made crude, sexually explicit comments about me and other girls — many of which I found physically threatening.   And yet, I was expected to change clothes in front of — and go to the restroom in the same room with — the male making those comments. Some of us began wearing school clothes to practice or our practice clothes to classes just to avoid changing in front of this one student.