One week from today, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case (actually two cases) involving transgender athletes. There have been a couple of interesting wrinkles as these two cases, one arising in Idaho and one in West Virginia, made their way to the Supreme Court.
The wrinkle in the Idaho case is that, as of September 2025, the plaintiff in that case, whose name is Lindsay Hecox, has tried to withdraw from the case. Officially, lawyers for Hecox claim the case is moot because Hecox has dropped out of athletics at Boise State. Why? Apparently because Hecox recognizes there could be a significant backlash to having one's name permanently attached to a case that goes poorly for trans rights supporters, an outcome that seems increasingly likely.
Now there's another wrinkle. The second plaintiff in this case, the one whose case came from West Virginia, has been accused of sexual harassment in the girl's locker room by a female athlete who was on the same team in Middle School.
Bridgeport High School female student Adaleia Cross, who is a former track and field teammate of the trans athlete when the two were at Bridgeport Middle School, alleges the trans athlete made comments to her that constituted sexual harassment in the girls' locker room...
Cross's mother, Abby, told Fox News Digital what the trans athlete allegedly said to her daughter when they shared the girls' locker room during the 2022-23 school year. Adaleia was in eighth grade, and the trans athlete was in seventh.
"When Adaleia first told us, she told us that [the trans athlete] was telling her and other girls ‘s--- my d---,’" Abby Cross alleged. "[The trans athlete] was saying to her, coming up and saying to her, ‘I’m going to stick my d--- in your p---- and also in your a--.' At different times [the trans athlete] was saying these things to her."
Those comments were reported to school officials at the time they happened but Adaleia's parents say the school never responded to their complaints at all.
"They told me they would do a full investigation into what I told them," Adaleia said. "And then, all of a sudden, it was like nothing else was happening, it was done, and it seemed like they thought nothing of it because they didn't talk to us about it at all, they just left it there and didn't tell us anything else, so it just made it seemed like, yup it's done."
Her father, Holden Cross said, "We received no response from the school after filing the report."
So far it appears the school hasn't issued a comment about any investigation that took place but the trans student's attorneys at the ACLU say the complaint was dismissed.
"Our client and her mother deny these allegations and the school district investigated the allegations reported to the school by A.C. and found them to be unsubstantiated.
We've all seen how these investigations work in some cases. School districts don't want to have negative press around sensitive topics so they downplay or, in some cases, outright lie about what happened. I don't know that's the case here but the fact that the school didn't substantiate the claims doesn't impress me much.
Meanwhile, Adaleia Cross, who was a full year older than the trans student athlete, went to high school and did track for one year and then dropped out of athletics the following year because the trans student had entered high school and was joining the team. Partly this was to avoid having any further interaction with this student and partly because Cross had already experienced being displaced from the shot put and discus competition by this male student who was a year younger.
"I had gone from being top three to all of a sudden watching him very quickly move up the ranks… I watched it all just be very quickly taken from me." Adaleia Cross said. "I can't do anything about it."
Anyway, I'll be covering oral arguments next week, but my guess is there won't be much public commentary in the mainstream media about the fact that of the two plaintiffs in the case, one has been accused of harassment in a girl's locker room and the other has been trying to get their name off the case.
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