16-year-old says she was kicked off swim team for protesting biological males in YMCA girls' locker room

16-year-old Abbigail Wheeler, who was removed from her local YMCA swim team for speaking out against a biological male in the women's locker room, sits down with her sister Kaitlynn Wheeler and Riley Gaines to discuss the issue.

A 16-year-old Illinois swimmer is accused of "hate speech" for speaking out against biological males being allowed in the girls' locker room at a Springfield YMCA. 

Abbigail Wheeler says she was kicked off the YMCA SPY swim team after she and a teammate put up signs reading "Women’s Rights," "Biological Women Only," and "SafeSport" to alert other girls that biological males were in the area.

"I went to my coach and gladly told him that I was a part of this, and he said that it was probably not the best option for me to swim with the swim team that night and that the YMCA staff would follow up with my family," Wheeler said Tuesday on "Fox & Friends First."

The local YMCA chapter communications director, however, says Wheeler left the team on her own, writing, "There have been a variety of false statements around the same issues circulated by the same individuals since the past May. In this version of the story, the statements that the swimmer was removed from the Yand prevented from participating in the swim team is false. She left the swim team and the YMCA on her own."

Abbigail stood by her story Tuesday morning, saying it is "not true" that she left on her own.

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16-year-old Abbigail Wheeler was accused of 'hate speech' for protesting transgender athletes in the girls' locker room at a YMCA in Springfield, Illinois. (Fox & Friends First/Screengrab)

OutKick's Riley Gaines, who has become an advocate