Nikki Hiltz cried after seeing Hayward Field booed Transgender sprinter at 2024 Oregon High School State Track Championships

Nikki Hiltz is mentally ill.

What opportunities for recreational sports are available for high school and middle school students?

I think municipal governments should organize recreational sports for the "mass" so that the school sponsored sports can be limited to only those who aspire to be elite athletes and take the competition as seriously as the Olympic Games.

You'd like to think so, but the thread is about a crowd booing a trans person, so sometimes we do crawl out of the basement.

Well in pro races for some reason you set in silence as hundreds cheer for Nikki, so maybe it’s just the high school kids you get up the courage to boo.

Nikki Hiltz has to be one of the most hypocritical people to ever exist. Let’s let this completely mediocre biological male compete in the female division and strip the rights away from young girls who have worked their asses off to get to this point. I’m telling you, once you go so far left like Nikki is, you just end up contradicting yourself. Now Hiltz doesn’t make sense because they’re destroying the rights of young girls while also trying to advocate for the supposed rights of trans kids? How about this - they have the right to compete in the division of their biological gender, or compete in the open division.

I truly dislike Nikki Hiltz and I would love to see them completely fumble at the Trials, though I’m not sure that’ll happen. I hate how they’re acting like this would be acceptable on any stage. If it’s not allowed in the NCAA or pro level, why should it be allowed on the HS level? I know damn well Hiltz would hate to be beat by a male in the women’s division. For these HS girls, this is their LIFE, not some game that should be played by men and disregarded. I’ve had enough of this BS as a father of girls. I see how hard they work for these important moments like the state meet and it makes my blood boil to see their rights being displaced so easily.

Are you saying that Nikki is a guy?

What?

What you see as a "a thread about a crowd booing a trans person," others see differently. In my view, this is a thread about a crowd booing because a teenage male athlete was able to enter a girls' HS state track meet - and come in first to win a girls' state title - by claiming to have a trans gender identity.

Most people don't care that the student who got booed for winning a girls' state title is, or claims to be, "trans" (a status that anyone can obtain today simply by saying "I am trans" or "I identify as the opposite sex/neither sex").

The only issue most people take issue with is the fact that a MALE student is competing and winning in the category of sports created for FEMALE students.

If this student-athlete had run in the category appropriate for his sex, no one would have booed. Coz no one objects to teenage males racing against other teenage males.

I cried when my brother said he only had 8 covid shots, there goes granny, dead again.

Yes, that's what I said more concisely.

Except a "trans person" could just as easily be female as male.

The bone of contention isn't about "a trans person" or "trans people" generally competing in sports. It's solely about MALE people using claims of a trans gender identity to compete in the FEMALE category.

No one has a problem with females who are, or claim to be, "trans" competing in the female category - unless, that is, they've started taking exogenous testosterone or other androgens.

Two "trans persons" competed in the 2022 NCAA national women's swimming championships - one male (Lia Thomas) and one female (Izsac Henig). Objections were raised only about the male swimmer. Not coz he is, or says he is, "trans." But coz he's a MALE who had chosen to compete in the FEMALE category - and his muscling in was presented by some people as a good thing.

Since the vast majority of MS and HS-age kids today who've adopted a trans gender identity are female, it's likely that there are many more female trans-identifed HS students in Oregon than there are male ones. Chances are at least one of the female trans-identified students made it to the Oregon 2024 state championships and competed in the girls division where a male athlete who claims a trans gender identity won a girls' state title and ended up being booed for it by some in the crowd.

In CT this year, at least one prominent female HS athlete who competed and did well in the girls' state track & field championships has gotten press coverage for claiming to have a "trans non-binary" gender identity similar to Nikki Hiltz. No one took issue with that athlete competing in the girls' division. Most everyone wished her well. The only objections raised were about the two male HS school students in CT who were able to compete and win titles in the 2024 girls' state championship because they say they have a trans gender identity.

When male athletes claim a trans gender identity, it enables them to compete in a sex catgegory where they as males have an unfair advantage. When female athletes claim a trans gender identity, they do not get the same sort of benefit.

So honestly, these are separate issues.

1) Transgender girls/women competing against biological girls/women

2) Booing a high school track athlete under any circumstances.

On issue one, Hiltz is entitled to an opinion but knowing what that is, I believe it to be completely wrong and misguided - especially given the often pointed ironies of "race day" and what they "wake up as and feel like" with uneering consistency.

Issue two, I understand that. I didn't personally feel like crying but I thought it was inappropriate and cruel. And I understand the unfairness there and how some people (possibly with daughters competing or even in that race) would feel, but that person was just exercising their right under the current conditions and regulations that even thought might be desperately wrong, are the current conditions and regulations.

So I think as many of us agree, it sucked and was sh-tty, and it shouldn't happen - but you have to bigger and bit your lip in that situation, especially given the possible/probable fragility of mental health at play with a teenager.

Is Nikki transgender? If so, why doesn't she compete in the category that aligns with her gender identity? It seems advantageous for her to compete as a female.

USATF doesn’t have a nonbinary division. This isn’t complicated for most to understand.

I fully agree—-but—-the adults who are making decisions about this kind of thing should not be putting anybody in this situation, trans athlete, competitors or fans.

I - and I think all reasonable people - are opposed to people who were born males completing in womens sports.

But at some point it's starting to feel gross that this site is every day highlighting a story creating controversy about non-elite high schoolers just trying to fit in with their peers.

I have faith this will work itself out. In the meantime, if some trans girl wins a high school meet, who f*ng cares. That's not news we should be making a big fuss about on this gloal site in the middle of the olympic trials.

"whose life has absolutely no bearing on your own." This statement is STUPID and is often repeated. Does it matter if the two loves of your life married each other and you wound up single for life? Well it basically happened to me and almost certainly a few others.

Hey bub, my daughter if she finished second!

"Child" bro it's a high school sophomore, in 2 years he will be an adult. If you're in high school you're old enough to know boys competing against girls is unfair.