Kate McGinnis
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I have nothing against this athlete as a person. I have nothing against the trans community. I watched AB do their jump and the numbers on the screen lit up to 19 feet 2 inches which was the furthest mark of that day. Normally something typical that long jump athletes will do is they start a clapping sequence kind of to gain momentum from the crowd and kind of feel the rhythm of the the jump.
And so I did that and I ran down the runway. I landed and I watched them measure my mark and it was 18.9. And I just remember thinking that there was nothing else that I could do, that that was it. Winning CIF has always been a goal of mine. And I just, I wasn't able to compete with someone who is genetically different than me.