When I was in high school, I ran track. My best event was the long jump. I set a school record when I was 16.
My best jump was 21’11”. Not great, but not bad for a 16-year-old who spent more time surfing than practicing for the long jump. That jump would have put me in the Olympics…if I was female. My hair was long, but I wasn’t a girl.
This year, in my home state, a boy pretending to be a girl took the spotlight and took medals and memories away from hardworking girls. The girl who finished “second” to that boy will never get a chance to get that moment back. It’s lost, forever, like tears in the rain.
In late February, AB Hernandez, a transgender junior at Jurupa Valley High School in California, competed in the girls track and field meet securing first place in the high jump (4 feet, 10 inches), long jump (17 feet, 6 inches) and…
