Female High School Track Star Comes Out Swinging After Trans-Identifying Male Teammate Claims Victimhood

California high school female track athlete, Celeste Duyst, came out swinging after a trans-identifying male teammate claimed to be the victim because girls don’t want him in their locker room watching them change.

During the Lucia Mar Unified School District Board meeting for Arroyo Grand High School on Wednesday, a biological male who goes by the name “Lilly” took the podium and said he was a victim of harassment after Duyst, at the last board meeting, recounted the horror of having to change in front of him, as RedState reported. The two compete on the same high school track team.

Draped in the trans flag, “Lilly” said he was “ruthlessly slandered at the last school board meeting” and said he was there to demand that the “district take real and immediate action to protect queer students from harrassment.” He also claimed it was his “safety that’s been compromised,” and not all the female athletes who have had to change in the locker room with him present.

The entire time “Lilly” was talking, a group in the crowd, many who appeared to be adults, vigorously waved their little trans flags as he demanded action.

But the real fireworks occurred when Duyst took the podium after “Lilly” and made clear there are victims here, but it’s not the biological male.

Duyst said, “There are men trying to eliminate female sports through the transgender movement. This is not okay. Currently, perception and feelings are being used as evidence to qualify oneself as a woman.”

“A person is not a woman based on their thoughts or perceptions, but on DNA and fundamental anatomy,” she added. “The trans community are not only trying but succeeding in watching girls change along with competing against us.”

“Most females don’t appreciate competing with biologically unfair competition and don’t want to change with a boy watching them,” Duyst continued, noting that the reason she’s speaking out is because her “rights and safety are no longer valued.”

Celeste Duyst, a girl who competes with Norcross on the high school track team, spoke after him.
As he sat behind her, Norcross put on noise-cancelling headphones and smirked. Several adults in the crowd actually LAUGHED at Celeste derisively. pic.twitter.com/KKGQUabQnJ
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The person who posted the video on X noted that while she was speaking, “Lilly” allegedly sat behind her wearing “noise-cancelling headphones and smirked.” They also noted the laughter from several adults in the crowd when Celeste said she wasn’t transphobic and didn’t have any hatred towards transgender community.

At the board meeting in April, Duyst broke down in tears while defending the rights of females to change without males watching. The junior took to the podium to plead with the board to stop allowing biological males in their locker rooms, saying her privacy and that of other girls was being violated.

"I went into the women's locker room to change for track practice where I saw, at the end of my row, a biological male watching not only myself, but the other young women undress,” the high school student said.

“This experience was beyond traumatizing," she added, as she started to get emotional. "Adults like yourself make me and my peers feel like our own comfort was invalid, even though our privacy was and still is completely violated."

Duyst, through tears, pointed out that the transgender athlete has XY chromosomes, making him a male, and said that this is just “basic biology."

On April 1, California Democratic legislators rejected two proposals from Republicans that would have banned students "whose sex was assigned male at birth from participating on a girls school sports team." The other would have prevented students from using bathrooms and other facilities that align with their gender identity.

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