Minnesota teen softball player opens up on trans pitcher playoff game as Trump admin vows Title IX enforcement

A former Minnesota high school girls' softball player opened up about losing to a transgender pitcher in the state tournament and how the declining safety of the state has caused her and her family fear.

Kendall Kotzmacher will never forget the day she stepped into the batter's box against Marissa Rothenberger. 

It was a Minnesota state tournament semifinal. Kotzmacher and her White Bear Lake High School teammates were looking to go on a run to the state championship game. Kotzmacher had just transferred to White Bear Lake for her final year with the goal of winning a championship, alongside her little sister and teammate. 

But Rothenberger, a trans athlete, was on the mound that day for their opponent, Champlin Park High School. 

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Marissa Rothenberger threw a complete-game shutout in the quarterfinals round of the Minnesota Girls' Softball State Tournament. (Amber Harding/OutKick)

"They're moving ten times more," Kotzmacher told Fox News Digital of Rothenberger's pitches. 

"I have seen movement pitches, so when your hands are bigger than a biological female at that age, in Minnesota especially, you're spinning the ball ten times more. And I would actually say that this athlete wasn't on their best game that day, but even at half their best, they're still blowing it past us, spinning the ball more, making it so we can't hit." 

Kotzmacher locked in enough to make some contact off Rothenberger that day. But Rothenberger held White Bear Lake to just two runs on seven hits. It was the most number of runs scored off Rothenberger in the entire postseason. But it wasn't enough, because in the last inning, Rothenberger came up to hit too. 

After hitting a double to spark a