<p>A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trans-identifying</a> male high school athlete complained about the lack of &#8220;sportsmanship&#8221; from his female competitors after he won an event in the girls&#8217; championship.</p>
<p>Veronica Garcia, 16, is a trans-identifying student who runs on the girls track team at East Valley High School near Spokane.</p>
<p>On Saturday, Garcia was greeted with boos from the crowd when he finished first in the girls&#8217; 400-meter run at the track and field championships in Tacoma, making him the first trans-identifying high school athlete to place first in state.</p>
<p>When he accepted his gold medal at the podium, his female competitors did not applaud or cheer, but instead stood with their hands behind their backs.</p>
<p>Someone in the crowd <a href="https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/jun/02/east-valley-teen-is-the-first-washington-transgend/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> shouted, “She’s not a girl!”</p>
<p>Garcia said he was “somewhat hurt” the girls did not congratulate him.</p>
<p>“I guess maybe I expected sportsmanship because I was cheering the rest of them on when they were called. So I guess I expected to get that reciprocated,” Garcia <a href="https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/jun/02/east-valley-teen-is-the-first-washington-transgend/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Spokesman-Review. “But I didn’t get that.”</p>
<p>“I’m just a teenager. I wish people would remember that,” he said.</p>
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<p>Garcia&#8217;s first place time for the 400-meter run was 55.75 seconds, a full second faster than the girl who finished second.</p>
<p>The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA), which governs high school sports in the state, allows trans-identifying students to compete on the team of the opposite sex.</p>
<p>&#8220;The WIAA encourages participation for all students regardless of their gender identity or expression,&#8221; the WIAA handbook <a href="https://assets-rst7.rschooltoday.com/rst7files/uploads/sites/652/2023/10/10132553/Eligibility.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">reads</a>.</p>
<p>The WIAA also does not require high school athletes to take cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers to play on the team of the opposite sex.</p>
<p>The boos at Saturday’s meet were “a bit more severe” than usual, Garcia told The Spokesman-Review.</p>
<p>Garcia began identifying and presenting as female last year. Since then, he says he has received “discriminatory comments” about his gender identity.</p>
<p>“I’m just a teenager. It’s one thing if you want to advocate for whatever, but your message becomes deflated when you start insulting,” he said. “As soon as you start harassing transgender people, then I think your message starts to fall apart.”</p>
<p>“At the very least, give us respect, because I think the best thing anyone can do is, even if you don’t understand why we’re transgender, the very least is to be nice to us. Kindness goes a long way,” Garcia said.</p>
<p>Garcia admitted there are “not easy answers” to trans-identifying people competing in sports.</p>

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