California girls' track athlete opens up on losing 1st-place title to trans competitor

High school athlete Katie McGuinness joins 'America Reports' to discuss placing second in a long jump event while competing against a transgender athlete.

A high school track meet in Southern California became the latest flashpoint in the state's ongoing conflict with President Donald Trump's administration over trans athletes in girls' sports. There, multiple girls' competitors fell shy of first place to a biologically male trans athlete. 

The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Southern Section Final on Saturday saw the trans athlete take first place in the triple jump and long jump. The second-place finisher in the long jump was Katie McGuinness of La Canada High School. 

McGuinness recounted the experience of losing to the trans athlete in an interview on Fox News' "America Reports." 

"I remember thinking to myself, ‘OK, I need to get a big jump,’" McGuinness said. 

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Katie McGuinness of La Canada High School finished seventh in the girls' high jump event at Arcadia High School in California on April 12, 2025. (Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images)

"I ran down the runway and I landed and I watched them measure my mark, and it was 18.9," she said. "And I just remember thinking that there was nothing else that I could do. That was it. And I was honestly very discouraged, and I'm a high school senior and winning CIF has always been a goal of mine, and I wasn't able to compete with someone who was genetically different than me."

McGuinness made her overall stance on the issue clear.

"There are just certain genetic advantages that biological males have that biological girls don't," she said. "Frankly, I just can't stand for that."