A high schoolwrestlerin Washington says she was sexually violated during a match by a trans-identifying male athlete. Even more disturbingly, school officials failed to report the alleged assault to law enforcement for nearly two months after she came forward.
Kallie Keeler, a 16-year-old sophomore at Rogers High School in Puyallup, says the incident occurred during a Dec. 6 girls' wrestling match against Emerald Ridge High School in the 190-pound weight class.
A few minutes into the bout, while Keeler was face-down on the mat, her opponent "reached between her legs and, very forcefully for several seconds, tried to push her fingers in her vagina." That'saccording tounDividedhost Brandi Kruse, who originally broke the story.
"That has never happened," Keeler said. "Out of all the years I’ve wrestled."
Keeler said she immediately knew something was wrong.
"I was just kind of like, what? What the heck?" she said. "I didn’t really know what to do or how to handle that situation. I just wanted the match to be over."
She said she allowed herself to be pinned to end the match.
At the time of the match, Keeler said she believed her opponent was female and was not informed ahead of time that the wrestler was biologically male.
"I didn’t really know what to think of it," she said. "It’s a women’s wrestling team, so I wasn’t really thinking that."
Keeler said she learned moments after the match — from a coach at another school — that her opponent was a biological boy, and she was "shocked" by the revelation.
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