On Tuesday, throughout a Lucia Mar Unified Faculty District (LMUSD) faculty board assembly in California, high-school junior ladies’ observe athlete Celeste Diest spoke about transgender athletes sharing locker rooms with high-school ladies.
Diest tearfully shared the uncooked and emotional affect of being pressured to undress in entrance of a organic male athlete.
Faculty Board president Colleen Martin responded to the woman’s emotional expertise and considerations by dismissively telling her to “wrap it up.”
Diest took the rostrum to recount her expertise of getting to vary in entrance of a biologically male trans athlete earlier than observe, whereas that athlete allegedly watched her undress.
Diest advised the Board, “Hey. My identify is Celeste Diest. I’m 17-years-old, a junior, a observe and area athlete at AGHS. Most significantly, I’m a lady advocating for the renewal of feminine rights which just lately has been ignored and disregarded. I implore all of you to place an finish to this present injustice.”
“Lately, I went into the ladies’s locker room to vary for observe observe, the place I noticed, on the finish of my row, a organic male watching not solely myself, however the different younger girls undress. This expertise was past traumatizing.”
Recounting the expertise, Diest started to choke up.
“I need to add that he’s not altering in our locker room as a result of he’s in his observe garments, dressed and able to go to observe at the start of the day. Due to this fact, there’s completely no motive for him to be in any locker room, not to mention the ladies’s.”
“Adults like your self make me and my friends really feel like our personal consolation was invalid, although our privateness was and nonetheless is totally violated.”
Diest continued to battle tears, including, “The person who identifies as feminine has XY chromosomes. Biologically, this makes him a male as a result of females have XX chromosomes.”
“That is fundamental biology.”
Martin interrupted Diest, saying, “Okay, please wrap it up.”
Diest bravely continued, “I simply need to ask ‘what about us?’”
“We can’t sit round and permit our rights to be given as much as cater to a person that could be a man, who watches girls undress and is stripping away feminine alternative that when was fought for us.”
“Sadly, we now have to attempt to regain our rights once more. I hope you set effort into the restoration of our faculty security.”
Diest left the rostrum to thunderous applause from the viewers, which set Martin off.
Martin yelled “No!” and angrily banged her gavel as she tried to silence the gang, however the cheers solely elevated.
Martin lastly gave up and waited for the cheers to subside earlier than the following speaker started.
Watch (remarks start on the 2:08 mark)
