Transgender Runner Cruises To Washington Girls State Track Title, But This Kind Of Thing Never Happens, Right?

A transgender athlete — who is biologically male — has won a championship in the girl's competition at the Washington State Track & Field Meet, in yet another example of the lack of fairness girls and women are facing in sports.

You may be feeling déjà vu, but that's just because these stories are happening all too often.

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In this case, the runner in question is Veronica Garcia — who competes for East Valley High School in Spokane, Washington.

According to the Independent Council on Women's Sports, Garcia was previously known as Davina Brown and Donovan Brown and came to attention earlier this season for being ranked No. 1 in the league and No. 4 in the state after winning the Girls' 400m in March.

Garcia was on hand to compete in the Washington State Track & Field Meet at Mount Tahoma Stadium in Tacoma, Washington in the 400m dash.

According to the meet results, Garcia won their heat race with a time of 55.59 seconds. The second-place runner finished with a time of 58.83 seconds.

It doesn't take a math whiz to realize that that's a three-second lead in a race that takes under a minute.

In the finals, Garcia won with a time of 55.75 seconds, a full second ahead of the second-place runner who finished with 56.75.

Now, here's a fun game: let's see what the time was on the boys' side of the event, shall we? 

The winning time, per the results, was 48.47 seconds.

The last place time? 50.73 seconds.

Garcia would have been just over 5 seconds off the last-place runner's pace in the bonus 400m and still won the girls' title by a second over the fastest biological female in that state in that event.

But there's no biological difference men have over women in sports, right?

Yeah, uh-huh…

Technically, There Weren't Any Rules Broken Here, But That Doesn't Make It Right

It's important to note that Garcia isn't breaking rules as it currently stands. But just because rules aren't being broken doesn't mean that people aren't being negatively impacted.

An Instagram story from a friend of one of the competitors who lost to Garcia battled back from injury to compete in her senior season, only to realize she was only competing for second at best.

Of course, with Garcia making the field another runner wound up getting bumped and didn't even get a shot at a state title despite earning it.

Unfortunately, until things change and rules are set in place to  allow only females — the real, biological kind — to compete in girls' and women's sports, we're going to keep seeing this.

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