Father of female runner forced to compete with trans athlete shares fury of situation: Cant even digest it
Dan Slavin, a construction subcontractor in California, has parented his daughter Kaitlyn through an experience no one in their family expected this school year. Over the summer, they got word Martin Luther King High School, where Kaitlyn competes in cross country, would be getting a new transfer student who would be competing on Kaitlyn’s team.That student was a transgender athlete. Slavin says he and other parents contacted the school about it immediately. “We went in there with concerns about safety and locker room issues,” Slavin told Fox News Digital.
“They were very tight-lipped and quiet.They understood our concerns and said they were working on putting things in place for our children’s safety, but not much.
They just kind of sat there.” Slavin, a California native who also competed in cross country, as well as track and basketball, in high school, wanted his daughter to compete in sports to benefit from lessons in work ethic and teamwork. But the idea of Kaitlyn having to share a locker room and field with a biological male made him “concerned.”California state law protects the inclusion of transgender athletes in girls and women’s sports and requires public schools to comply with these protections.California Gov.Gavin Newsom has been a staunch protector of these policies during his tenure and vetoed a bill that would require schools to notify athletes and their families when a transgender athlete is on their team. Newsom signed nine LGBTQ+ rights bills into law within a matter of days in 2023, and this year he signed the Support Academic Future and Educators for Today’s Youth Act (SAFETY Act) into law, which bans teachers from notifying students and parents of a transgender student’s biological sex. “I’d love to sit down and have lunch with him to talk to him about this and see how that goes,” Slavin said.
“I would probably just tell him that I get you want everybody to feel included, but you’re missing out on ...