Transgender runner beats freshman girl by 0.15 seconds in 200-meter race at Pennsylvania high school meet

Luce Allen, a elder transgender girl, defeated a freshman biologic pistillate by little than two-tenths of a 2nd successful a 200-meter contention astatine a Pennsylvania precocious schoolhouse way conscionable implicit the weekend.

Allen, of Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School, acceptable a idiosyncratic grounds of 25.20 seconds successful the contention astatine the SOL American meet. 

Allen present has six victories connected the season, including successful the liberty girls' 4x400-meter relay successful the aforesaid meet.

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A transgender miss defeated a biologic pistillate during a precocious schoolhouse way conscionable successful Pennsylvania. (Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports)

Allen's clip would person been the fourth-slowest clip among antheral 200-meter runners, including preliminary heats. The winning times for the boys were 21.72 and 21.96 seconds.

According to athletic.net, Allen has competed against girls since 2023, erstwhile Allen was a sophomore. No 1 with the past sanction "Allen" was listed connected either the boys' oregon girls' roster successful 2022, Allen's freshman year.

A lawyer work a connection from Allen astatine a Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association committee of directors gathering backmost successful March, saying that forcing transgender individuals to vie against those who stock a biologic sex volition wounded their development.

"If you region the quality of trans radical to vie with a squad that corresponds with their gender, past you’ll portion them of their accidental to make arsenic people," Allen said, via the Philadelphia Inquirer. "Trans athletes, similar immoderate different precocious schoolhouse athlete, are conscionable kids who privation to compete."

Allen's mother, Sarah Hansen, said astatine that gathering that she and her household person been connected a travel for her to modulation to the miss that she ever has been, and having Allen vie against boys "would beryllium cruel."

Pennsylvania has refused to adhere to President Donald Trump's enforcement bid connected keeping biologic males retired of women's sports. (Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports)

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"My kid is simply a pistillate successful her bosom and soul, and according to her aesculapian labs," Hansen said.

"Luce’s beingness connected the squad fosters a tone of unity, sportsmanship, and inclusivity,"team caput manager Christopher Jackson said astatine that aforesaid meeting. "They are admired for their bravery, enactment ethic, and unwavering committedness to the athletics they love."

Hansen said that Allen is "not a antheral who wants to play against girls, not a predator who wants to find a mode into the pistillate locker room, and not a antheral who isn’t bully capable to beryllium a boy. She is simply a girl."

The authorities of Pennsylvania arguably enactment biologic males competing against girls and women connected the map, erstwhile UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas won a Division I nationalist title successful 2022.

Amid his enforcement bid to support biologic males retired of girls' and women's sports, President Donald Trump's medication began a Title IX probe into the Ivy League School. 

President Donald Trump signs an enforcement bid with young pistillate athletes banning transgender women from competing successful women/girls sporting events connected Feb. 6, 2025. (Getty Images)

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Schools successful Pennsylvania person defied the bid that was signed successful February. California, Maine and different states person besides ignored the order.

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