“Assault on the Mat”
KMK v. WIAA, et al.
June 15, 2026
This post is about a lawsuit recently filed on behalf of a 15-year-old girl who was forced to compete against a male wrestler. The suit says that he assaulted her by digitally penetrating her vagina. Jennifer Sey has a terrific write-up about the matter on her Substack Sey Everything (which you should totally subscribe to because Jen is awesome). It’s titled “The Assault on the Mat: When Respectability Shields Predators.” She put out another video the next day titled “Cloak of Respectability.”
But first …
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Someone at the group Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender recently alerted me to a very odd new fundraiser being promoted by some people called “Nate and Heather.” It says:
A little about us: In February of this year, Nate had the incredible luck of being accepted into the History PhD program at Brown University -- which is why we need to move! He is truly excited about this opportunity, and is planning on studying trans/gender variant and disabled experiences in 16th and 17th century Europe through the lens of texts about monsters and monstrosity, and the ways that the social “norms” we live with have been constructed throughout history.
I have no idea why Nate wants to spend his (her?) time studying “trans/gender variant and disabled experiences in 16th and 17th century Europe through the lens of texts about monsters and monstrosity,” but here we are.
Loudoun County, Virginia, is, in a word, a mess. Under oath, the county school superintendent told the US Congress that federal law requires the county to allow men to be in women’s locker rooms. This is, of course, not true. One could wonder if this superintendent is relying on former President Biden’s rewrite of the Title IX regulations in order to make this proclamation, but surely he has lawyers who have told him that the rewrite was vacated in its entirety in January 2025 and that the current administration has made it very clear that it will interpret Title IX such that sex means sex.
It is being reported that a Loudoun County Public Schools teacher is “using school resources to lobby Congress and solicit signatures in defense of” this very superintendent. Someone should maybe tell this teacher that such conduct is a very poor use of judgment, to say the least.
Regular readers will remember that in 2021, a boy was convicted of sexually assaulting a girl in a girls’ bathroom in Loudoun County. He was wearing a dress and permitted to be in the girls’ bathroom because he had a girl “gender identity.” A few years later, the girls’ family sued the school system for $30 million. I’m not sure what’s going on with that case, but I do know that earlier this year, the county settled a suit involving two boys who were punished for complaining about a girl filming them in the boys’ bathroom in a different Loudoun County school.
I was in Loudoun County twice in 2021 to tell the school board that its policy of allowing boys’ to use the girls’ bathrooms was terrible. Here is a picture of me and a bunch of other TERFs outside the school administration building, making that very point:
This most recent news out of Loudoun County follows a story about a man named Richard Cox who is being prosecuted for indecent exposure and sexual assault after being found in various women’s locker rooms in Arlington and Fairfax Counties, also in Virginia. I wrote about those cases for paid subscribers.
These Virginia counties really need to get their sh*t together.
The LGB Courage Coalition has a terrific weekly news roundup about things that happened in the land of gender flippity-flam (my words, not theirs) last week. It leads off with the news that:
On June 5, the Department of Justice announced a resolution with the Cleveland Clinic Foundation — one of the largest and most prestigious health systems in the United States — ending its provision of pediatric “gender affirming care” and committing $2 million to detransition services.
The settlement, co-signed by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, binds Cleveland Clinic to a 20-year commitment not to perform or offer puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, surgical interventions, or other related sex-rejecting procedures for minors. The detransition services Cleveland Clinic must now provide include hormonal balancing, surgical revision and reconstruction, fertility restoration, psychological support including grief counseling, and insurance coordination — available to all patients regardless of their ability to pay. The clinic must maintain a dedicated website, phone number, and care coordinator for detransition, and must conduct direct outreach to organizations providing non-medical support to people seeking to reverse prior interventions.
This is great news, but the ACLU of Ohio is very sad about it.
The group Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender (DIAG, on whose board I serve) has put out an important action alert. They say:
HUD is accepting public comments on an important proposed rule: Equal Access to Housing in HUD Programs Revisions. This rule would restore a common-sense, sex-based approach in HUD-funded housing programs, including single-sex shelters and other facilities where privacy, safety, and dignity matter. It would help ensure that women and girls in vulnerable situations are not forced to sacrifice their rights, boundaries, or security by a policy that overrides sex with “gender identity.”
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Please submit a short comment in support of the rule before the June 29 deadline.
You can comment here.
I used their suggested language to submit this comment:
I support HUD’s proposed Equal Access to Housing in HUD Programs Revisions. HUD-funded programs should be able to maintain sex-based policies for single-sex shelters and facilities where privacy, safety, and dignity are at stake. This is especially important for vulnerable women and girls, including survivors of violence and homelessness. Protecting women’s spaces is compatible with treating everyone with dignity and compassion. I am a feminist, lifelong Democrat, and author of The TERF Report on Substack and “The Reckoning: How the Democrats and the Left Betrayed Women and Girls” (https://www.amazon.com/Reckoning-Democrats-Betrayed-Women-Girls/dp/B0CN32BXC2”).
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Bryndís Blackadder has posted coverage and commentary regarding recent news that a man and his sister have been found guilty in a case from Scotland. The man has been convicted of behaving in a threatening manner, uttering sexual remarks toward a group of girls, and assaulting one of the girls. When the case was first reported last year, one of the girls was roundly demonized and it was assumed that she was the aggressor. Bryndís explains.
Again, this post is about KMK v. WIAA, et al., a new federal lawsuit out of Washington state, where a girl was forced to compete against a male wrestler who allegedly sexually assaulted her by digitally penetrating her vagina. The entire matter is very upsetting. Read on to learn more.
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