Mediocre Runner Becomes a Champion. All He Had to Do Was Become a Woman.

The world having gone absolutely insane, Sierra Retzlaff and Charlie Garrett are likely to get a lot of heat for this, but in a sane world, they would be the heroes of the story. Sierra and Charlie are both girls who are on the cross country running team at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington. Recently they discovered that in a meet against Skyview’s rival Camas High School, they would be competing against a boy — and they refused to play along with this madness.

In a world that includes Rachel Levine and Lia Thomas, Camas High’s Logan Mihailoff stands out as one of the most outrageously absurd and infuriating examples of the continuing pandering to the deluded men and women who think they have become members of the opposite sex, and demand that everyone play along. Mihailoff, according to a Friday Fox News report, “finished 76th in a JV cross country race. On Sept. 29, he finished first in a varsity race in a meet against Union High school.”

This was not the result of improved training habits or recovery from some injury. Instead, halfway through the racing season, Logan Mihailoff decided to declare that he was a girl, and instead of telling him to cut the crap or (if he really seemed to believe this nonsense) treat him for mental illness, school officials, as well as the top dogs, of the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA), duly fell into woke lockstep, and eagerly agreed with Logan that he was a girl, and indeed, one of exceptional athletic ability.

And so suddenly this unaccomplished middle-of-the-pack runner was transformed into a top competitor: he finished “second among 195 girls in a Sept. 26 race in Portland.” And then he won the top spot in another race three days later.

When Camas was about to compete against Skyview, however, Retzlaff and Garrett were not filled with the joy of diversity at the prospect of competing against the demure “Ms.” Mihailoff. Being well aware that Logan, whatever his claims to the contrary, was really a guy. And “after some discussion, they decided that they were going to make a statement. How? By walking up to the starting line with body paint reading ‘keep women in women’s sports’ … and walking off once the race began.”

The woke, deluded, conformist and groupthinking types were predictably indignant. “Retzlaff said that she has received a lot of support but has also had friends that started ignoring her.” Her father, Joel Retzlaff, however, were completely on her side. He and his wife “brought two signs to the Sept. 15 meet. The first read: ‘It will never be OK for a XY to steal an opportunity from a XX.’ The second read: ‘Please only XX competing with XX, XY competing with XY. Keep it fair.’”

The WIAA, however, although it doesn’t have a rule against men pretending to be women in order to win awards in women’s sports, it does have a rule against signs, and by golly, it is eager to crack down on this menace: “Camas’ athletic director Stephen Baranowski approached Retzlaff and asked him to leave. Retzlaff asked why, and Baranowski explained to him it was because of the signage. Retzlaff agreed to take the signs down, but he still wanted to make his voice heard. So as he walked back to his car after Sierra’s race, he held up his sign and chanted ‘Keep boys out of girls sports!’ And after he got into his car, he drove by the venue, honked his horn and repeated the same chant while his friend held the signs out the window.”

That was too much for the dignified solons of the Camas school district. They slapped Joel Retzlaff with a criminal trespass notice, barring him from “Camas school district properties for the next year.” They should be barring Logan Milhailoff, not Joel Retzlaff, but such are the skewed priorities and perspectives of our absurd age.

For his part, Retzlaff says: “I would beg to ask them where all the adults are that know the difference between a boy and a girl and why they’re letting this happen.” Because they’re conformist lemmings who are afraid of the social opprobrium that can come from noting that the emperor has no clothes. He is, however, still naked.

After the pattern of leftists everywhere, the people who are in favor of allowing deluded men who claim they’re women to compete in women’s sports are trying to intimidate their opponents into submission: “Mihailoff’s mother followed her around and recorded her for much of the meet. Apparently, she didn’t stand down when Garrett’s mother, Emily Sadowski, confronted her and told her to stop filming.”

Charlie Garrett, who is a real girl, is nevertheless standing her ground, saying: “I thought it was more important to show how this is affecting me and all the girls in our. It comes down to biology and the spots being taken away from Sierra, me and all the girls.”

Indeed it does.