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um hi I've never spoken to this many
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people so I'm a little nervous but I'm
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also excited and really happy about this
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opportunity um my name is H Wilson and
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I'm 14 years old and I am a freshman for
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the eastm school
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district um in May of this year I ran in
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the cashmere Junior Olympics the Junior
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Olympics are a regional track meet for
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junior high athletes who plays first or
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second throughout the track season um so
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it's a pretty big deal it is basically
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the championships for our
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area
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sorry I'm sure most of you have heard
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that at the Junior Olympics I raced
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against a transgender athlete in the
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1600 meter race I had heard of this
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happening around her country but I never
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expected to encounter it
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firsthand um when all all the runners
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had lined up to race I noticed that this
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athlete was built very differently than
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all of the other girls but I didn't
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think much of
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it um because we were on the starting
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line and we were about to
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race it wasn't until we were on the
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podium that I heard the commotion of
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upset adults and
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kids um that is when I heard that the
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athlete that was standing next to me on
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the first first place Podium was a
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biological
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boy my heart sank and I felt extremely
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discouraged I felt like all my hard work
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that I had put in throughout the year
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didn't mattered and that um it was just
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going to be
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forgotten um my family and I spoke up
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about how unfair this was we didn't
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speak up about unfair was because I
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didn't get first and didn't win we spoke
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up because Boys Racing against girls at
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this level of competition isn't right
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and it isn't
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fair all of
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those all those biological girl sitting
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up there next to me had worked just as
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hard as I had throughout the entire
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season
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but at that moment our hard work and
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talent did not
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matter a coach on the transgender
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athletes team had heard my group of
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friends voicing their concerns and
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frustration about how unfair this
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was they told my group of friends that
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if they were going to complain they need
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to go somewhere else and do
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it hearing this was devastating to me
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and my friends it felt like we were
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being told to shut up stop complaining
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and just deal with it
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and this is why I'm speaking of our
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female athlete voices need to be heard
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because we are the ones that this is
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personally
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affecting um going through this
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experience has been incredibly hard
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adults have attacked my family and me
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for speaking up for fairness and
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protection of biological girls in sports
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my family and I have been told by adults
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that we are transphobic that I am a sore
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loser and that I value winning more than
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a human
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life we have also been told that it will
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be our fault and that we will be the
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ones responsible if this transgender
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athlete takes their
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life and then I was told that I am
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simply just not good enough and that's
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why I play second
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um but I feel like the same people who
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are attacking female athletes for
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speaking up do not care about the mental
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tolls and
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struggles this is also taking on female
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athletes these words have affected me
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and it has hurt tremendously to hear all
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of these things because me and my family
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are some of the kindest people who
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strive to love everyone and do what is
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right I have had severe anxiety Y and
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panic attacks as I have been trying to
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prove to those who say I am not good
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enough by training even harder What
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hurts the most is that no matter how
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hard I train or how hard I push myself
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the likelihood of beating a boy is
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Slim I have learned so much going
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through this experience my biggest
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takeaway is that allowing boys to
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compete in girls Sports isn't working
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and it is not
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fair um it isn't fair and it isn't
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working for biological girls and it
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isn't fair and it isn't working for
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transgender
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athletes thank
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you no matter where you stand failing to
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protect woman's Sports is
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wrong so much hate and conflict has come
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from both sides the things I have heard
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about this transgender athlete and me
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are awful and
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damaging I am only 14 and I shouldn't
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have to deal with these kinds of adult
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issues but here I
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am thank you um but here I am speaking
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up hoping that adults will step up and
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do what is right to protect and keep
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women's sports fair and safe for
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biological
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girls I hope we can find a solution for
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all athletes to compete fairly and
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safely because at 14 years old even I
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can see that the current rules aren't
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working for biological g girls or
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transgender athletes
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thank you
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[Applause]
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