Fresh off winning the ESPY for Best Breakthrough Athlete, Olympic figure skating champion Alysa Liu is once again making headlines. But this time, it’s because of her younger brother, who has been competing in girls’ high school sports in California.
Joshua Liu, who now goes by “Jaylin,” has competed in girls’ track, basketball, and ultimate frisbee while identifying as a woman.
The teenage boy most recently won the women’s 400-meter race at the Tri-County Athletic League Finals on May 8, according to Reddux, and has won every girls’ 200- and 400-meter race he’s participated in for Albany High School.
He also played on Albany High School’s girls’ basketball team, where the 5-foot-8 junior was among the team’s top contributors.
For Jaylin’s other sport, girls’ ultimate frisbee, he’s described as “dominant” this summer for his team coming off the Ultimate High School National Invite last month in Oregon.
“Jaylin Liu was one of the fastest players on the field and extremely dominant during the Garfield game,” Ultiworld reported.
Kim Jones, co-founder of Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) told The Daily Wire that his sister, Alysa, represents the “pinnacle of female athletic achievement,” a strong contrast to what her brother is doing.
“It is a crime that girls in California are still being forced to compete against boys,” Jones said. “Her success was possible because a category existed that recognized and celebrated female athletes on their own merits. Without a clear category for female athletes, we would not know Alysa, and a male standard becomes the default in a backward society that devalues women for being female. A healthy society recognizes the unique merit of both male and female athletes.”
Jones said if Alysa, who won over the hearts of Americans during her Olympic run, stood up for women’s sports, it would be “inspirational,” but added the real responsibility falls on California’s leadership from Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom to the elected officials in Washington, D.C.
“When we reach a point where we demand that middle school girls take a public stance or a female Olympian speak out against her own family, leadership has failed to do the easiest thing in the world,” she said. “No girl should lose her place, recognition, or future because people in positions of authority refuse to protect female competition. This injustice must end.”
Under the International Olympic Committee’s policy announced earlier this year, athletes eligible for the female category must meet the organization’s biological sex criteria, determined on the basis of a one‑time SRY gene screening.
IOC President Kirsty Coventry said the new policy is a protection for the female category.
“I understand this is a very sensitive topic, as a former athlete I passionately believe in all Olympians to take part in fair competition,” Coventry said. “The policy that we have announced is based on science. The scientific evidence is very clear. Male chromosomes give performance advantages in sports that rely on strength, power and endurance.”
“It’s absolutely clear that it would not be fair for biological male to compete in the female category.”
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