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Girls’ Sports Exist for a Reason

We separate boys and girls in sports for good reasons, and males don’t belong in women’s competition or in women’s locker rooms. An alleged occurrence last year makes this very clear.

On Dec. 6, 2025, 15-year-old Kallie Keeler stepped onto a mat at Emerald Ridge High School in Puyallup, Washington, for a girls’ wrestling match at the Lady Jag Kickoff. Her family says nobody informed her the opponent was a biological male. They allege the opponent shoved fingers through her uniform at the groin, and the school district’s own Title IX investigation concluded the opponent likely touched her private parts with force. Those remain allegations—no court has ruled on them, and no charges against the opponent, a minor, have been reported.

Nobody can consent to a risk that was not disclosed. Whatever Washington decides about the eligibility of males in girls’ sports, it owes parents advance notice of an opponent’s sex at the very least.

Here’s where the case stands. A federal judge denied a preliminary injunction on Aug. 23. The 9th Circuit refused emergency relief on Sept. 25. On Oct. 5, Alliance Defending Freedom asked Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan to bar officials from forcing Keeler to wrestle males or, at minimum, to give her mother notice and let her decline those matches without penalty. The girls’ season opens in mid-November, And this is merely a request for interim protection. Nobody is asking the justices to decide guilt.

The reasons for separation are well established and rooted in physical realities. A Sports Medicine review found that muscle and strength fall only about 5% after 12 months of testosterone suppression, which the authors call a........

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