Female Competitors Drop Out Of Race Against Trans-Identifying Male Runner At USA Open Championship

 Numerous female competitors, some only teenagers, refused to compete against male transgender-identifying runner Sadie Schreiner, 21, during this weekend’s USA Track and Field (USATF) Open Masters Championships.

Schreiner, who formerly went by the first name Camden, competed against males during high school, before joining the girls’ Rochester Institute of Technology’s track and field team, where he broke records.

On Saturday, Schreiner took first place in the women’s 400-meter dash after his two female competitors — 17-year-old Anna Vidolova and 16-year-old Amaris Hiatt — did not compete in the race.

Schreiner also took first place in the women’s 200-meter dash, beating out female competitors as young as 14 years old, according to Fox News. In that race, Vidolova again chose not to compete, as well as 18-year-old runner Jordan Carr, Paula Damiens, 16, and Amanda Taylor, 46.

USATF has not acknowledged the female competitors’ apparent protest. The organization allows males to compete in female sports in compliance with International Olympic Committee (IOC) rules.

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Back in 2023, Schreiner set a school record for women’s track and field at RIT.

“New school record,” RIT celebrated in an Instagram post, which has the comments turned off. “Sophomore Sadie Schreiner set a new record in the 300m dash last Friday at Nazareth, clocking in a time of 41.80s.”

At the time, Schreiner was only referred to as “Sadie Rose” on RIT’s athletics website. His win then, as this past win, sparked major backlash online.