FFS Friday: Kaitlyn and Taylor

Two athletes at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, CA

November 22, 2024

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This week’s FFS Friday honors Kaitlyn and Taylor, two female athletes at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, CA, who have filed a complaint against their school district, alleging violations of their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, as well as Title IX. The girls had been punished for wearing t-shirts that read, “Save Girls’ Sports” and "It’s Common Sense. XX ≠ XY."

Photo: Fox News Digital

Kaitlyn and Taylor, in ninth and eleventh grades respectively, attend Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California. They are both cross-country runners, but Taylor was displaced from the school’s varsity team by a male athlete (whose name has not been reported, to the best of my knowledge). Taylor told Fox News Digital, “Why am I getting displaced when I worked so hard and gone to all of the practices, and this student has only attended a few of the practices.”

One day the two athletes wore t-shirts to school that bore the messages, “Save Girls’ Sports” and "It’s Common Sense. XX ≠ XY." As reported in Outkick, “officials from the high school's athletic department advised them not to wear their pro-women apparel after deeming the messaging to be as ‘hateful’ as wearing swastikas.” The officials told the girls to either remove or conceal their shirts. Kaitlyn states, “It was definitely hard to hear because we're by no means trying to be hateful. We're just wearing a shirt that expresses what we believe in trying to raise awareness to a situation.”

According to the school, in other words, pointing out the material reality of sex is akin to wearing a swastika. The complaint alleges violations of the girls’ First and Fourteenth Amendment rights and Title IX.

To Kaitlyn and Taylor, if you’re reading this: you should not have to be doing this. The adults in positions of authority should not be putting you in this position. But you’re doing the right thing, and countless women and girls all over the world will have your backs. Today’s FFS Friday is for you.