After competing against a 6-foot male opponent on the other team who
identified as a female, three female high school basketball players
suffered serious injuries. The basketball team was then forced to forfeit
the game.

Four days before a playoff game, coach Kevin Ortins of the Collegiate
Charter School of Lowell, Massachusetts, decided to cancel their game
before halftime, since his roster was beginning to thin out and his
starting players were in no position to get back on the court.

As a result, the school forfeited their game against the KIPP Academy.

According to Fox News and The Daily Item, a local Massachusetts
publication, the KIPP Academy girls team featured a male player standing
at 6-feet tall who was seen sporting facial hair and a small ponytail.

A video of the basketball game, which purportedly showed the KIPP player
in question struggling for the basketball against a Collegiate player, was
uploaded to YouTube by an account called �InsideLowell.�

In the video, the other player is shown falling to the ground in agony,
clutching her back, and struggling to stand back up.

Riley Gaines, a 2021 Olympic trials qualifier and competitive swimmer who
competed for the University of Kentucky�s NCAA swim team, chimed in with
her own comments on X (Twitter) regarding the recent incident.

Gaines is known on social media platforms for calling out biological males
with gender dysphoria who identify as female and choose to athletically
compete against biological females even though they have a clear
advantage, backed by science.

Gaines takes no issue with criticizing various establishments,
institutions, and the transgender community for their demonstrated
indifference and disregard toward biological female athletes whose
scholarship chances and overall enjoyment is being snatched away by males.
Many of the gender-confused athletes that Gaines has condemned previously
had even competed with their own biological sex at one point, although
they fell short of any victories or success.

Trans-identified male player for Kipp Academy in MA injured 3 girls before
half time causing Lowell Collegiate Charter School to forfeit.

A man hitting a woman used to be called domestic abuse. Now it's called
brave.

Who watches this & actually thinks this is "compassionate,�
pic.twitter.com/ZLlqYH6iAs

� Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) February 19, 2024
The Daily Item reported that KIPP�s Friday game versus Lynn Tech was
canceled due to death threats made to the gender-confused player.
Meanwhile, the remaining healthy players for Collegiate �feared getting
injured and not being able to compete in the playoffs,� the team said in a
statement.

The school �reiterates its values of both inclusivity and safety for all
students,� according to the statement.

Anthony Grimaldi, the athletic director at KIPP Academy, refused to
comment when questioned by The Daily Item about whether the school thinks
Collegiate�s forfeit was prompted by the male player who identifies as
female.

�KIPP does not wish to make a comment at this time as to why the other
team forfeited the game. We are looking forward to our next game,�
Grimaldi said.

�A student shall not be excluded from participation on a gender-specific
sports team that is consistent with the student�s bona fide gender
identity,� stated Section 43.3.1 of the Massachusetts Interscholastic
Athletic Association handbook.

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