There’s a disappointing but predictable update to a story I first wrote about in June.
In short, high school wrestler Kallie Keeler, of Rogers High School in the Puyallup School District in Washington, claimed she had been sexually assaulted during a competitive wrestling match by an opponent she later learned was transgender . . . even though video of the match suggested nothing criminal occurred.
Experts I spoke to also said the allegation she was making were the kinds of things that happen in wrestling matches all the time. (In a sport with fast-moving hands, athletes are occasionally and accidentally touched in inappropriate places! This was nothing more, they said, than a couple of amateur high school wrestlers pulling off a couple of sloppy moves.)
The fact that the video showed nothing outside the regular scope of a match is, in fact, why no charges were ultimately filed. The Washington Interscholastic Athletic Association took no action. And the Pierce County prosecutors chose not to file criminal charges in the incident . . .
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