Boy smokes the competition in girls' track and field heat in Oregon: 'Getting more and more masculine'

A 10th-grade boy in Oregon cruised past his female competitors in a girls' sprint heat over the weekend, likely securing a spot that would otherwise have gone to a girl in the upcoming state competition.

On Saturday, Aayden Gallagher, a boy who claims to be a girl, represented McDaniel High School in several girls' races in a track and field competition at the Sherwood Need for Speed Classic in Sherwood, Oregon, about 15 miles southwest of Portland.

One of those races was a 200M sprint heat. Video of the race shows Gallagher quickly gaining a considerable edge on the other runners. "Great knees! Great drive!" the announcer gushes just moments before Gallagher crosses the finish line. No other runner is even in the camera shot by that point.

Gallagher officially clocked in at 25.49, while the second-place finisher in that heat did not cross for another five seconds. Gallagher easily won the heat but did not finish with the best time in the event. In a separate heat, sophomore Aster Jones of Roosevelt High School beat Gallagher's time by more than a second at 24.43, a personal record for her.

Gallagher finished in second place in the 400M race that day as well. He also participated in some relays.

Gallagher may not have had the best times that day, but he still likely assured himself a spot in the state competition next month. "He will beat all of the girls, (except maybe 1) break records and be called a hero — for being a male who races against the girls and wins," wrote an X account called Let_Oregon_Learn, which reportedly belongs to an exasperated parent of a female competitor.

Gallagher appears to have taken advantage of a policy from the Oregon School Activities Association, which allows students to compete according to their "gender identity" in most cases, but he admitted that, as of a year ago, he had not yet received any cross-sex hormones. He expressed hope that he would someday though.

"I feel like [hormone therapy] will make me a lot more confident," he said, according to his school's newspaper.

"Right now I’m just going to keep on getting more and more masculine," he said. "More facial hair, stuff like that. And I don’t want that. Estrogen and other hormones and getting vocal training would make me a lot happier and more confident."

While many on social media are quick to lay at least some of the blame on the girls who choose to compete against a boy, Let_Oregon_Learn claimed that in most cases, the girls do not know ahead of time that a boy will participate in their race. "The girls did not know they were running against a boy until the race was done," the parent wrote on X. "This is the reality of allowing boys to compete against girls-most do not realize it until the competition has either started or is over."

Let_Oregon_Learn and others believe that something needs to change soon. Otherwise, males will dominate athletic competitions reserved for females. "We must demand a 3rd category in high school competitions, or races must be by biological gender. Anything else is making a mockery of female athletics," the parent said.

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