Female High School Wrestler Sues After Alleged Sexual Assault by “Trans” Wrestler During Match
“This is a sexual assault—unknowingly captured by a mom filming her daughter’s wrestling match.”
Understandably, female athletes have a lot of legitimate concerns about biological men who “identify” as women participating in women’s sports, and many of them center around physical safety.
Will this athlete hurt me during the course of play because of size/strength/speed superiority? Will this athlete be allowed to change and shower next to me in the women’s locker room? And for female athletes in contact sports like wrestling, one fear is will this athlete touch me inappropriately?
According to Kallie Keeler, a high school student in Washington state, such a nightmare allegedly became a reality during a December 2025 wrestling tournament in which she claims a transgender student – who she did not know was a biological male – sexually assaulted her mid-match:
Kallie’s first tournament of the season was a girls-only event sponsored by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) and the district. For her final match, coaches and a tournament official directed her to the mat against an opponent from another school. Kallie and her mother assumed her opponent was a girl.
During the match, the male athlete sexually assaulted her, doing what wrestlers call an “oil check,” an illegal move where a wrestler will use their fingers to penetrate an opponent’s private areas through their spandex. This flagrant violation can result in penalties, disqualification, and criminal charges. Such an act has no place in any context, let alone wrestling, and Washington law treats this as a serious crime.
Visibly distressed, Kallie let herself be pinned so the match would end, then ran to her mother in tears. Only afterward did a coach from another team tell her that her opponent was male, adding to her feeling of being violated.
Two days later, Kallie’s mother reported the assault in writing to the coaches and gave them video of the match. A coach replied that she had not known the opponent was male and said she would follow up. Days went by. Then weeks passed. They hadn’t heard anything. Under Washington law, school personnel must report assault complaints to law enforcement within 48 hours. As it turned out, the district did not notify law enforcement for nearly two months, and only after a journalist contacted the school for comment.
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is representing Kallie, who is now 16, and her family in a federal lawsuit filed against the state. Kristen Waggoner, who is ADF’s president, CEO, and chief counsel, shared a short video clip that contains what they say is the moment the sexual assault allegedly happened. Watch the expression on Kallie’s face change to shock at about the halfway point of the video:
This is a sexual assault—unknowingly captured by a mom filming her daughter’s wrestling match.
Kallie didn’t know her opponent was male. But she knew something was very wrong.
Today @ADFLegal helped Kallie sue the WA officials who placed gender ideology above her safety. 🧵⬇️ pic.twitter.com/Oaywn4rGIk
— Kristen Waggoner (@KristenWaggoner) June 11, 2026
He shoved his fingers through her spandex, digitally penetrating her.
The victim shouted to her mom that his fingers were inside her "c**chie."
This is so disturbing. She's a 15-year-old girl & this young man assaulted her in public in a wrestling match. https://t.co/cAiqtRwUpF pic.twitter.com/9ofY1TJnpZ
— Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) June 11, 2026
Kallie is no longer wrestling because she no longer feels safe to participate in the sport she loves.
To add insult to injury, Pierce County prosecutors have declined to prosecute the unnamed athlete in the case:
A criminal investigation included interviews with the alleged victim and her mother, as well as video of the alleged assault. The sheriff’s office referred a rape charge to the prosecutor’s office.
On June 5, the Pierce County Prosecutor’s Office declined to file criminal charges in the case because “it’s clear that any potential charges could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.”
In reviewing the case, the prosecutor’s office cites a case concerning a basketball game where a player was punched and injured. An appellate court found that a person who willingly participates in sports consents to “potentially offensive contact.” Further, inappropriate touching of the genitals in wrestling is common enough where it has a nickname and any offensive or harmful touching was “a direct by-product of the game.”
Waggoner shared thoughts on that in another X post, but did note the local prosecutor was “still considering action against those who failed to report the sexual assault, as required by law:”
Let’s make one thing very clear: signing up for girls’ wrestling is in NO way a permission slip for sexual assault.
As @ADFLegal explained in our lawsuit: “Digital penetration falls outside the scope of implied consent to participating in athletics because, under normal circumstances of girls wrestling, it is not a reasonably foreseeable hazard from the perspective of a girl wrestler. Nor is sexual assault or groping generally accepted by society as part of any lawful athletic contest.”
Also: girls who sign up for girls’ wrestling aren’t consenting to wrestle boys. Kallie Keeler was betrayed by multiple adults in authority, who knowingly allowed her to wrestle a male without her knowledge or consent. They bear responsibility for what happened to her—and they are continuing to put female wrestlers in harm’s way through their actions and policies.
That’s why, besides suing governing bodies @wiaawa, @waOSPI, and the Puyallup School District, we’re also suing:
– State superintendent Chris Reykdal
– Kallie’s principal
– Her school district’s Title IX coordinator
– Her opponent’s coach… and not just in their official capacities, but as individuals.
I’m also glad to hear the local prosecutor is reportedly still considering action against those who failed to report the sexual assault, as required by law. These mandatory reporters should have reported the incident within 48 hours but waited 53 days. They should face consequences.
We won’t rest until Kallie gets justice—and girls in Washington state get their sports back.
Let’s make one thing very clear: signing up for girls’ wrestling is in NO way a permission slip for sexual assault.
As @ADFLegal explained in our lawsuit: “Digital penetration falls outside the scope of implied consent to participating in athletics because, under normal… https://t.co/NtYrnibzhJ
— Kristen Waggoner (@KristenWaggoner) June 12, 2026
Here’s what ADF is seeking on behalf of Kallie and her mom, Stephanie Brown:
The lawsuit seeks to preclude transgender athletes from competing with or against Keeler in sports; declare ineligible any athletes transgender athletes from competing in sports with or against Keeler; require the district to provide notice and opt-out rights to Brown when her daughter is to compete against transgender athletes in girls sports; correct all records where Keeler lost to a transgender athlete.
The lawsuit further asks that Keeler is given the chance to participate in sports without academic penalty or eligibility penalty and restore her lost athletic eligibility. It also seeks to require all defendants named to provide training to all relevant employees to avoid similar situations in the future.
The lawsuit also seeks an award for damages to be determined at trial.
The bottom line is that Washington state is committed to a lie: the notion that boys can become girls.
And lies hurt people—in this case, girls.
It’s time for the harm to stop. We look forward to representing Kallie and her mom in court. /🧵 pic.twitter.com/RYRCXXbocr
— Kristen Waggoner (@KristenWaggoner) June 11, 2026
The case has also caught the attention of some high-profile advocates of protecting women’s sports, including “Save Women’s Sports” spokeswoman Riley Gaines, “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling, and tennis great Martina Navratilova:
This 15 year old girl was nonconsenually and unknowingly touched, groped, and violated by a man.
This is beyond a civil offense. In a just society, every adult who allowed for this scenario to play out would be criminally charged. https://t.co/9JDhJCLlzG
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) June 11, 2026
Appalling 🧵
I want those who champion men in women’s sport to explain why they’re happy to put girls at risk like this. https://t.co/ofUpJxuLdE
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 11, 2026
There was never any consent, you assholes!!! https://t.co/NCx0Uo5CXf
— Martina Navratilova (@Martina) June 12, 2026
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights began investigating this case in February to “determine whether the District violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) by allowing males to compete in female sports, allowing males to access locker rooms designated for use by female students, and failing to adequately respond to allegations of sexual assault.”
The 74-page complaint filed by the ADF can be read here.
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Comments
Women/girls should REFUSE to compete against these mentally ill males.
Agreed. However in this case the fact the opponent was male was not known.
I’m sure his coach knew.
I was so happy when Mid-Vermont won their lawsuit.
I have sad this before –
Letting boys compete in girls sports is evil.
However , it remains trivial to the much bigger evil – which is the embracement of permanently destroying the persons body and destroying any chance a mentally ill person ever has of returning to a normal life. Josef mengelee level of evil that is embraced by woke ass —-
“ and not just in their official capacities, but as individuals.”
Sue them so severely that their great grandchildren will wallow in poverty for this grossly immoral outrage.
What in the world are people thinking? This wrestler is a sexual deviant and those that allowed him to wrestle members of the opposite sex are equally guilty enablers.
And as for the wrestler in question, if a guy had done this in my high school, he would have found himself in great pain and missing teeth out back of the gymnasium. We didn’t allow creeps like this to touch our sisters. No police or courts necessary. Messages were received, behaviors modified and recidivism was not an issue.
If he had done that to my daughter, he WOULD be a woman after I was done with him, courtesy of a rusty spoon.
How many more of these attacks do women have to suffer for reality, not to mention science, to be restored to normalcy?
He’d be lucky to walk once I was finished with him.
This is all according to intersectualism. White heterosexual women are now in 2nd place in the totem pole of oppressors. As such they lose out every time to transexuals even transexual women in the oppression Olympics, In other words they should just shut up when not apologizing for their privilege.
Progressive theorizing at its finest.
Straight white non-muslim women are so low in the intersectionality scale, the only group lower is straight white non-muslim men.
Her opponent was Taufa ‘ase’ e Tei who goes by Trixie Tei when wrestling.
IMO this Tranny rage is 1/2 mental illness and the other 1/2 is guys who don’t want to be females they want to be with the females.
It should never be started and pushed as this article says by Culture Marxism Seminaries, they protected their male Tranny.
As a woman, I am befuddled as to how we came from title 9 to this ?
And how women have been the worst for standing up for their girls rights.
Lots of women who were incapable of thinking more than zero moves ahead voted for exactly this.
Because abortion!
Democrat insanity. Redundant, but necessary in this context.
Right up there with public safety, this was on our top 5 reasons for leaving Wa. Our daughter was finishing elementary school – we had pulled her out going into the 5th grade to home school and thank goodness we were out of there by March. I applaud home schoolers, but that just aint us.
She’ll be a freshman next year. Not to say that TN doesn’t have these freaks too (there’s one on the high school cross country team) but they aren’t letting them compete as a girls here nor enter girls locker/bathroom spaces.
Washington state is nuts. When a girl signs up for girl’s sports, at no time is she consenting to be digitally penetrated by a male. That’s freaking absurd.
Washington State is not nuts, they are evil and immoral people running it.
“Further, inappropriate touching of the genitals in wrestling is common enough where it has a nickname”
You mean, like “take out” or “rip off” or “carmugging” or “five finger discount” or “necktie party” or “wetwork?” Common enough to have a nickname, so not worth prosecuting anymore?
What an idiot.
The vile, stupid and evil communist/Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist Dhimmi-crats have contrived a special, mile-wide carve-out exemption to their allegedly staunch opposition to males’ sexual assaults against girls/teens/women:
Muslim men and male trannies are allowed, and, indeed, encouraged, to sexually assault girls/teens/women as often as possible and as much as they want. After all, these are “protected classes,” in the Dhimmi-crat hierarchy of alleged victimhood.
Sue the individual educators, the school and the district. Get discovery on every communication or lack within the timeline of required reporting to LEO. School personnel gotta get it through their heads that they don’t get to conduct an ‘internal’ investigation or circle the wagons or anything else independently that removes the burden or extends the timeline to comply with mandatory reporting requirements.
The individual student may not get prosecuted, though that’s gonna be a tough one to defend ‘if it happens on the field its OK’? If a competitor acts within the rules sure, but not outside the rules and grabbing somebody’s privates ain’t within the rules of any High School sponsored sport I know of. The school employees are mandatory reporters and they either did or didn’t within the timeline. They can be prosecuted for that failure. The Superintendent/School Board better pull their heads out and start firing folks before the meter runs too high on liability for damages.
Trans should NOT be allowed to compete with women’s sports. We don’t see female to male trans competing in male sports, do we? What’s fair is fair and since the misdirection goes only one way, it’s wrong, not fair and deeply disturbing.
As a former athlete, I cannot imagine the disgust this causes to so many by these rare humans. Sickening.
I can think of one exception, equestrianism. Men and women have always competed in it.
Note that there are approximately ZERO instances of biological women wanting to compete with the men.
Wonder why?
Lichau,
Among other things, I am a retired wrestling official from a state where wrestling is a big deal. Before girls’ wrestling had enough interest and schools wanted the state HS athletic organization to make it a sport in the state, there were some female wrestlers who wanted to wrestle, and they had to wrestle against male wrestlers.
I hated doing matches between male and female participants because usually one of two things happened: 1. The girl would get pinned early in the match, or 2. The boy who lost to the girl would be torched by his teammates. The 2nd thing happened in MS matches when some girls were physically more mature than the boys, but reality usually bit in 8th grade or freshman years.
A couple of girls in light weights actually qualified for and won matches at the state tournament, almost always in lower weights, and they did not place.
So yes, there are some girls that wanted to wrestle boys, and on some school teams girls will wrestle with the boys because there are not enough wrestlers on the team period.
But in the state I live in girl’s wrestling is flourishing, and that’s a good thing. It’s also a good thing that girl’s flag football is a growing sport too.
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