{"id":1936061,"date":"2023-05-23T06:52:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T10:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/track-star-loses-state-championship-spot-to-trans-competitor-makes-her-displeasure-known-at-podium-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2023-05-23T06:54:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T10:54:28","slug":"track-star-loses-state-championship-spot-to-trans-competitor-makes-her-displeasure-known-at-podium-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/track-star-loses-state-championship-spot-to-trans-competitor-makes-her-displeasure-known-at-podium-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Runner loses state championship to transgender athlete, expresses frustration at podium."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrack-star-loses-state-championship-spot-to-trans-competitor-makes-her-displeasure-known-at-podium-ceremony%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1936061&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Controversy Erupts Over Transgender Athlete in Women&#8217;s Sports<\/h2>\n<p>A high school athlete&#8217;s gesture has sparked controversy over the participation of transgender athletes in women&#8217;s sports. Adeline Johnson finished fourth in the women&#8217;s 1,600-meter race at the North Coast Meet of Champions of California finals, while Athena Ryan, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/transgender-identifying-teen-becomes-first-male-to-win-a-miss-america-sponsored-beauty-pageant\/\" title=\"Transgender-Identifying Teen Becomes First Male To Win A Miss America Sponsored Beauty Pageant\">trans-identifying male<\/a>, took second place. California rules allow athletes to compete according to their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-loudoun-county-teen-claimed-sex-assault-was-an-accident-happened-when-his-skirt-snagged-on-wristwatch\/\" title=\"Report: Loudoun County Teen Claimed Sex Assault Was An Accident, Happened When His Skirt Snagged On Wristwatch\">preferred gender identity<\/a> and not biology. As only the top three finishers advance to the California Interscholastic Federation State Track &#038; Field Championships, Ryan is in, but Johnson&#8217;s running career is over. Video emerged of Johnson at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/track-star-loses-state-championship-spot-to-trans-competitor-makes-her-displeasure-known-at-podium-ceremony\/\" title=\"Runner loses state championship to transgender athlete, expresses frustration at podium.\">post-race podium ceremony<\/a> first waving to someone, then making a thumbs-down gesture.<\/p>\n<h3>Reactions to the Controversy<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Independent Council on Women&#8217;s Sports tweeted the video, noting how a female had lost an opportunity to a male.<\/li>\n<li>Former CA state champion high jumper Darren Marble tweeted his embarrassment for the state and sympathy for the girls who were cheated in the process.<\/li>\n<li>Protesters holding signs that said &#8220;protect female sports&#8221; were eventually forced to leave the event.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ryan&#8217;s time in the race was 4:55.91; Johnson&#8217;s was 4:58.63. In a post-race interview, Ryan said his time was his best. &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t expecting that. I dropped like 17 seconds on my season&#8217;s best in the past two weeks,&#8221; Ryan said in an interview after the race, according to the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high school athlete&#8217;s small gesture has sparked controversy over transgender participation in women&#8217;s sports. Adeline Johnson finished fourth in the women&#8217;s 1,600-meter race at the North Coast Meet of Champions of California finals. The incident has raised questions about fairness and inclusion in sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":1936062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[17384,13659,11868,24305,4318,27259,18661,4019],"class_list":["post-1936061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-athlete","tag-championship","tag-expresses","tag-frustration","tag-loses","tag-podium","tag-runner","tag-transgender"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1936062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}