California high schools at odds after alleged trans athlete displaces female in cross-country top 10

Ayala High School girls' cross-country coaches Caroline Cobo and Matthew Ullman revealed a recent incident where a trans athlete finished in a top-10 spot in a league final, dropping one of their female athletes out of the top 10.

A junior varsity cross-country meet was the site of a budding dispute between two California high schools over the validity of trans athletes' records in girls' sports.

During a league final last week, an alleged trans athlete for Claremont High School finished in fourth place in the JV girls' competition. Meanwhile, a female athlete for Ayala High School had to settle for 11th place, missing out on a podium finish by one spot.

Ayala girls' cross-country coach Caroline Cobo told Fox News Digital that she lobbied to have her athlete recognized.

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"During the awards, we asked if, when they called the top 10, for each category that they could call up the top 11 for the JV girls' race," Cobo said. "But they said no, they couldn’t."

So, Cobo and her team took matters into their own hands.

"So we decided to stand up during that award ceremony and say, ‘Oh, and in 10th place,’ which, on paper, she was 11th, but in reality she was the 10th biological female to cross the finish line. We stood up and said that, and she went up," Cobo said.

Ayala girls' assistant coach Matthew Ullman said he was confronted in the aftermath.

"While we stood up, lots of eyes on us, obviously. Afterwards we got some thank you's from some parents, some athletes saying ‘thank you.’ But I got approached by about five or six of the girls from the team where the transgender athlete competes at, and [it was] pretty confrontational," Ullman told Fox News Digital.

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