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It's a tough question. Normally you'd expect to anonymise the student but in this case, in order to avoid "how do you know that's the same person?" or "this is all fake", she did have to show evidence that it was who she said it was.
The timeline does sound skewed to me, though; I note by the PDF the update was that in 2024 John was still competing with the boys which is where he tied for fifth place, then in 2025 Katie won first place with the girls.
So 2023 or 2024 - ties for fifth, 2025 - first place. I think looking at that leap in performance, it's hard to argue "trans girls in sports don't have any advantage over cis girls" at this stage. I've no idea if the kid is on hormones and we'll have to wait a couple of years into the transition to see any real changes, but that is the crux of the argument: while we're waiting those years, Katie formerly John is now beating girls for places on state teams, college sports scholarships, and possibly Olympic places.
(The irony would be if the reason John only made fifth place competing with the boys is because they were secretly transitioning all along for a couple of years, but now they're fully out as Katie).
Oh, I make no claims as to the merits of the argument. I think publicizing and politicizing a teen's name like this would have been bad form even if we were talking about an unambiguous, garden-variety cheater (say, a kid who'd taken prohibited steroids). It's just not a responsible politician's place to name-and-shame a random minor like this, whether the kid did something actually wrong or not.
If someone is mature enough to transition they’re mature enough to take criticism of it.
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