Adaleia Cross Speaks After June 30 SCOTUS Sports Ruling, Alleging 2022-23 Locker Room Harassment
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Updated · Fox News · Jul 9
Adaleia Cross Speaks After June 30 SCOTUS Sports Ruling, Alleging 2022-23 Locker Room Harassment
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 9
Summary
Adaleia Cross said the Supreme Court’s June 30 ruling gave her “peace” after years of speaking out, but she says she still will not return to sports as a senior after two years away.
Cross alleges a transgender athlete made sexually explicit comments in a girls’ locker room during the 2022-23 school year, and says girls began changing in bathroom stalls and avoiding the athlete at meets.
The ACLU said its client and the client’s mother deny the allegations and that a school investigation found them unsubstantiated; Cross’s family says the district never told them any outcome and did not protect her.
Cross said the fallout cost her friends, three extracurricular activities and, ultimately, her athletic career, while the athlete later won the girls’ state shot put title in May before the ruling barred such participation.
The June 30 decision reversed lower-court rulings against West Virginia and Idaho, allowing schools to restrict girls’ and women’s sports based on biological sex.