A California high school girl’s track star, who went viral last year for stepping up to the first-place podium after losing her spot to a transgender-identifying male athlete, said she is considering another act of defiance this weekend as she faces the same opponent again.
Crean Lutheran High School girls’ track and field star Reese Hogan is set to go against Jurupa Valley High School’s AB Hernandez — a biological male — in long jump, high jump, and triple jump, the same events she has participated in for her last three track and field postseasons, OutKick reported. Hogan also came in second to Hernandez last Saturday in the sectional preliminary round.
One year ago, Hernandez snagged the top spot for the triple jump. In a spur-of-the-moment act, Hogan stepped up from second place to the top spot on the podium, in a clip that ended up going viral.
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