Crowd boos as boy wins girls' state championship track and field race in Oregon
A boy pretending to be a girl has officially won a girls' track and field state championship in Oregon, but as he was pronounced the winner, race spectators showed their disapproval by booing — loudly.
Aayden Gallagher, a 10th-grade student at McDaniel High School in Portland, has been making a name for himself in girls' track and field competitions this spring. As Blaze News previously reported, Gallagher won a 200M heat by more than five seconds last month. Then at the Portland Interscholastic League Championships a few weeks later, he took home gold in the girls' 200M and 400M races, assuring himself a spot in the state championships.
'The roar and standing ovation for Donelson may surpass anything that comes next week at the Prefontaine Classic. Or, yes, the Olympic Trials.'
Well, the Oregon state championships have since come and gone, and Gallagher once again bested the competition. In the girls' 200M sprint, he turned on the jets with about 30M to go to sneak past Roosevelt High School sophomore Aster Jones and finish in first with a time of 23.82 seconds, about .2 seconds ahead of Jones. DyeStat called it "one of the fastest times in state history."
As Gallagher crossed the finish line, members of the crowd protested his win by loudly booing. The boos and jeers were so overwhelming that multiple outlets have remarked upon them. LibsofTikTok shared a video of the race — and the crowd's reaction — on X:
This is Aayden Gallagher. He’s a boy who thinks he’s a girl and just came in 1st place in the women’s 200m Oregon State Championship.
Listen to the audience’s loud BOOs as they announce him as the winner!
People are sick of this madness! pic.twitter.com/wke0CTHFl6
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 19, 2024
Several outlets have also reported that Gallagher has recently needed "extra security" at practice and in competition and that this security detail whisked Gallagher off the track immediately following his victory, preventing him from shaking hands with his female competitors.
"There was extra security in place for that ceremony. But it did not take away the air of blatant transphobia that was circulating around the stadium," one attendee told Outsports.
The boos and jeers reportedly continued when Gallagher later stepped to the top of the podium to collect his gold medal.
By contrast, the audience roared with approval on Saturday when two-time defending champion Josie Donelson of Lake Oswego held off Gallagher in the 400M by just .15 seconds to win her third gold medal in the race. "The roar and standing ovation for Donelson may surpass anything that comes next week at the Prefontaine Classic. Or, yes, the Olympic Trials," DyeStat wrote.
Though Tyler Kelleher, the athletic director at McDaniel High School, and Ryan Keene, the school's track coach, have helped Gallagher dominate girls' track events, at least one Oregon coach was frustrated that a male has been allowed to compete against girls at the state championships.
"This is destructive to girls sports," the unidentified coach told DyeStat in response to a question about Gallagher's 200M win.
Gallagher declined to speak with the media on Saturday, DyeStat reported. Kelleher and Keene did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment.
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Why YOU should DEMAND the firing of Biden’s Secret Service director
Former President Donald Trump may have survived the attempt on his life, but it doesn’t seem like the Secret Service had much to do with it.
“It was by the grace of God that Donald Trump survived, it was not with the help of the Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle,” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” says.
Not only does Cheatle refuse to resign, but she’s blaming others for what happened on the day the former president narrowly escaped with his life.
“There was local police in the area that were responsible for the outer perimeter of the building,” Cheatle said in an interview on ABC News, adding, “I’m being told that the shooter was actually identified as a potential person of suspicion.”
“At least we can be thankful that apparently she’s so stupid that she thought that it would be wise to point that out,” Gonzales says. “Like, that’s how incapable we were. We identified him, I mean, he still managed to get a shot off, he still managed to get on the roof, he still managed to go around unscathed.”
At one point in the director’s interview with ABC News, the reporter asked her who was “responsible for this happening?”
“The Secret Service is responsible for the protection of the former president,” Cheatle responded, before the reporter asked, “So, the buck stops with you?”
“The buck stops with me. I am the director of the Secret Service. It was unacceptable and it’s something that shouldn’t happen again,” she said, later adding that she does “plan to stay on.”
Gonzales cannot believe the woman plans to stay in her position.
“Number one, Cheatle is obviously an under-qualified, nepotistic, DEI hire,” Gonzales says, noting that an insider told the New York Post that Jill Biden’s chief adviser Anthony Bernal was the one who pushed for her to get the director job.
While Cheatle was previously a part of Vice President Joe Biden’s security detail, she held a string of administrative jobs that included the assistant director of protective operations — where she managed the budget.
“I’m sure that the person who handles the finances would know how to just make sure that your people don’t die,” Gonzales scoffs, adding, “She’s a glorified secretary who knew a guy, who knew a guy, who was connected with someone else.”
In addition, the director is also blaming the “sloped roof” for what happened.
“That building in particular has a sloped roof, at its highest point, and so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof and so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building from the inside,” she said in the interview with ABC News.
“We saw the counter snipers behind Donald Trump who were on sloped roofs,” Gonzales says. “The entire point of Secret Service is for them to put themselves in harm's way in order to save whoever it is that they’re guarding.”
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