NCAA softball player from Minnesota shares mixed feelings on tax dollars going to lawsuits over trans athlete

NCAA softball player and former Minnesota high school softball player Kendall Kotzmacher spoke out against her state after the DOJ filed a lawsuit against the state's education agencies for not keeping biological males out of girls' sports.

Western Michigan freshman softball player Kendall Kotzmacher is in the process of filing her taxes for the first time. She does so knowing her federal and state taxes, as a Minnesota resident, will go toward litigation over her home state's refusal to keep males out of girls' sports. 

Kotzmacher had to compete against a biological male transgender pitcher in the Minnesota state playoffs in her final high school season in 2025. She had to watch the trans athlete dominate her team and end her season. Now, as the state continues to let that pitcher compete against girls, she may have to watch her younger sister compete against that athlete again this season. 

Kotzmacher, who earned income as a part-time youth softball coach and through NIL deals, including one with the activist sportswear brand XX-XY Athletics, will have to stomach some of that money financing the legal battle to "save girls' sports." 

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Champlin Park celebrates winning the State Championship while Bloomington Jefferson looks on. (Amber Harding)

"I feel like I can justify spending that money more, knowing that it's going to these young girls that should not have to do with something like that, you know, it's going for these girls that I've worked their whole lives and can't do anything about," Kotzmacher told Fox News Digital.

"It's definitely really frustrating, you know, and an ideal world, this never happens, and this money doesn't need to go to a lawsuit, such as