弗朗西斯·斯托德特选择不在高中篮球赛中与生理男性对抗。由于这一决定，她每天都在学校走廊里遭到骚扰。即便那个男生在赛前还和她共用更衣室，那些指责她的人也毫不在意。
Frances Staudt chose not to play against a biological male in a high school basketball game and said she gets harassed every day in her school's hallways because of her decision. It doesn't matter to her detractors that that male was also in her locker room before the game.
阿兰娜·史密斯曾是乔治亚南方大学的短跑运动员，高中时便立志要赢得康涅狄格州公开赛冠军。然而比赛开始前她就知道自己必输无疑——因为对手是一名生理男性。
Alanna Smith was a college sprinter at Georgia Southern who had aspirations of winning the Connecticut State Open while in high school. But she knew she was defeated before her race began because of the biological male lining up against her in the blocks.
贝利·安德森是一名高中篮球运动员。她记得比赛开场跳球时，一名身高6英尺的生理男性凭借更强的运动能力，跳得比身高6英尺3英寸的队友还高。不过那天最令她难忘的画面，却是赛前那些留着小胡子的男生在女更衣室的镜子前炫耀身姿的情景。
Bailey Andersen was a high school basketball player who remembers a 6-foot biological male out-jumping her 6-foot-3 teammate on the opening tip due to his superior athleticism. But her lasting memory from that day was the mustached boys flexing in front of a mirror in the girls' locker room before the game.
“我输掉了州冠军赛，输给了一个男生。但我绝不放弃发声。”肯德尔·科茨马赫是一名大学垒球运动员，高中时她所在的队伍输给了一支派生理男性担任投手的队伍，从而错失州冠军头衔。自她开始为自身权益发声后，许多朋友都疏远了她。
I LOST A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP TO A BOY. I REFUSE TO LOSE MY VOICE Kendall Kotzmacher is a college softball player who lost her high school state championship game to a team that started a biological male at pitcher. That wasn't her only loss, though, as myriad friends have abandoned her since she began speaking up on this issue.
萨迪·沙利文曾是高中游泳选手。她说自己换泳衣时，更衣室里经常有生理男性在场，那些男性的说话声让她“紧张到不行”。那么，是什么促使这五位女生上周六齐聚华盛顿州温哥华市，分享自己的经历呢？她们希望确保此类事件再也不会在华盛顿州发生。
Sadie Sullivan was a high school swimmer who said she regularly had biological males in her locker room while she was changing into her suit, and that hearing male voices in her space "freaked me out." So what brought these five ladies to a rally in Vancouver, Wash., last Saturday to share their stories? To make sure nothing like that ever happens again in Washington state.
实际上，她们的愿望远不止于此。她们希望全国范围内都杜绝此类事件，而眼下最紧要的任务就是在太平洋西北地区杜绝这类情况发生。
Actually, their ambitions extend beyond Washington. They don't want these types of incidents happening anywhere in the country, but stopping them in the Pacific Northwest is the immediate priority.
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11月3日，华盛顿州的选民将就是否通过第638号提案进行投票。该提案旨在禁止生理性别为男性的人员参加K-12阶段女生的体育赛事。这项提案的特殊意义在于：为使其得以列入投票议程，发起方需在全州范围内收集数十万份签名支持。
On Nov. 3, Washington voters will decide whether to pass Initiative 638, which would bar biological males from competing in girls’ K-12 sports. What's particularly significant about this measure is that it took hundreds of thousands of signatures from across the state to get it on the ballot.
目前，美国另有27个州已对K-12阶段的男女体育赛事作出区分，但这些政策均由州立法机构制定，而非经由选民投票决定。因此，若华盛顿州选民最终批准第638号提案，该州将成为全美首个通过全民投票将此类政策写入法律的州——同时也是唐纳德·特朗普在2024年大选中失利的首个实施该政策的州。
Twenty-seven other states separate biological males from females in K-12 sports, but all of those policies were enacted by state legislatures rather than approved by voters. So if Washingtonians approved Initiative 638, it could become the first state in the country to put such a policy into law by popular vote — and the first state that President Donald Trump lost in 2024 to have one on the books.
这一细节至关重要：此前民主党政客们大多将“跨性别者参与女子体育”这一议题视为无关紧要的问题。但倘若这一提案在全美最倾向民主党的州之一获得通过呢？
That last detail matters, because Democrat politicians have largely dismissed the trans-in-sports debate as a non-issue. But if this measure were to pass in one of the bluest states in the country?
“如果我们能证明像华盛顿这样的州也具备保护女孩与女性的基本常识，那么其他各州同样也能做到，”华盛顿州塔姆沃特高中的高三学生斯托德特说道，“我认为必须让更多人明白：这件事是可行的。”
"If we can show that a state like Washington has enough common sense to stand up for the girls and women, then any other state can do so as well," said Staudt, a senior at Tumwater High in Washington. "I think we need people to know that it's possible to be done.
“XX-XY Athletics”组织的创始人詹妮弗·塞伊也持相同观点。这位前国家体操队队员周六出席了在华盛顿举行的集会，她本人现居科罗拉多州，该州选民也将于11月3日就是否限制生理性别为男性的人员参加女子学校体育赛事的类似提案进行投票。塞伊期望，若这些提案均能获得通过，便能引发连锁反应，促使全美50个州相继出台类似法规。
Jennifer Sey, founder of XX-XY Athletics, agrees. The former national-team gymnast was at the rally in Washington on Saturday but lives in Colorado, where voters will consider a similar measure restricting biological males from competing in female school sports on the Nov. 3 ballot. It's Sey's hope that if these initiatives pass, it will start a "cascade" that leads to legislation in all 50 states.
民主党籍参议员纷纷缺席或逃离关于保护女性体育权益的司法委员会听证会。尽管在全国范围内该议题的支持率高达80%，且大多数民主党人也赞成在体育领域实行性别隔离，但这些相关法案能否顺利通过仍无保障。政客们一直采用恐吓手段来阻挠这些倡议的推行——最典型的就是声称此举会迫使女孩接受“侵入式的生殖器检查”。
DEMOCRAT SENATORS FLEE OR NO-SHOW JUDICIARY COMMITTEE HEARING ON PROTECTING WOMEN'S SPORTS But despite this being an 80-20 issue nationally, and despite most Democrats supporting gender separation in sports, there is no guarantee that these measures will get through. Politicians have been employing scare tactics to try to squash the initiatives — most notably by warning that they would subject girls to "invasive genital inspections."
去年7月，塔科马市议员奥尔吉·迪亚兹就使用了这样的措辞。西雅图市议会以及金县民主党也提出了类似说法，后者甚至称I-638法案要求女孩“必须接受生殖器检查才能参加校内体育活动”。不过正如塞伊此前指出的那样，在那些已对男女运动员实行性别隔离的27个州，根本不存在所谓的“生殖器检查”现象。在周六的集会上担任主持人、同时主持华盛顿州播客节目《Undivided》的布兰迪·克鲁斯称，这些言论纯属转移视线的伎俩。
Those were the exact words used by Tacoma City Councilmember Olgy Diaz last July. The Seattle City Council and King County Democrats made similar claims, with the latter describing I-638 as requiring girls "to undergo genital inspection to play sports at school." But as Sey has previously noted, these "genital inspections" aren't happening in the 27 states that do separate biological males and females in sports. Brandi Kruse, who emceed Saturday's rally and hosts the Washington-based podcast "Undivided," called these rhetorical ploys a red herring.
最新研究显示，跨性别运动员已从生理女性手中夺走了2,293个冠军头衔。“有趣的是，对方始终没有提出、也从未试图提出的论点就是：让男孩与女孩同场竞技完全没问题，”克鲁斯说道，“他们深知这个论点站不住脚，于是就编造谎言。他们声称如果这项法案通过，女孩们就必须接受侵入式的生殖器检查……可你的医生早就知道你的性别了。”
TRANSGENDER ATHLETES HAVE TAKEN 2,293 CHAMPIONSHIP SPOTS FROM BIOLOGICAL WOMEN, NEW RESEARCH FINDS "It's interesting that the one argument the other side has not made and has not attempted to make, is that it's perfectly fine for boys to compete against girls," Kruse said. "They know that's a losing argument, so instead they make things up.
可以肯定的是，周六参加集会的人全都支持通过I-638法案。不过在集会场地外，有个男子举着一块写着“如果你不是反法西斯主义者，那你是什么？”的牌子。值得称赞的是，当我与他交谈时他态度十分礼貌。不过他认为整个争论根本毫无意义。“要是你输给了一个生理男性，那也只能认栽，”他说道。那么男孩进入女生更衣室的问题又该如何看待呢？“这种事完全属于荒谬的宣传噱头罢了，”他答道。
They say that if you pass this initiative, then girls will have to get invasive genital exams...your doctor knows what your gender is." It's probably a safe assumption that everybody in the auditorium for Saturday's rally was in favor of passing I-638. But there was one man outside the property's walls holding a sign reading "if you are not an antifascist, what are you?" To his credit, he was civil when I spoke with him. But he called this whole debate a non-issue. "If you got beat by a biological male, sorry," he said. What about boys changing in girls locker rooms? "Just throw it all into the ridiculous propaganda bucket," he replied.
我随后询问他的名字，但他不肯告诉我。而且只有在他能用标语牌遮住脸的情况下，才允许我拍照。
I then asked for his name, but he wouldn't give it to me. And he only let me take a picture if he could cover his face with his sign.
我们很清楚在这件事上谁是懦夫——显然集会上的那些女士们绝非如此。
CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE We know who the cowards are on this issue — and they certainly weren't the ladies at the rally.
前述的科茨马赫称自己收到了死亡威胁，还有些反对者扬言要闯到她的家或学校。但这位明尼苏达州出身的女性依然坚持发声——无论是在华盛顿特区还是华盛顿州——她希望能在某个民主党占优的州取得胜利，进而引发全国范围内的连锁反应。
The aforementioned Kotzmacher said she has received death threats, while some detractors have threatened to show up at her home or college. But the Minnesota native keeps talking — whether in Washington, D.C. or Washington state — in hopes that a victory in one blue state can set off a chain reaction across the country.
“我认为他们的目的就是吓唬我，让我闭嘴，”科茨马赫说道，“但如今，没有任何事能阻止我，也阻止不了其他女孩。”去年，代表斯波坎谷市东谷高中的跨性别田径运动员维罗妮卡·加西亚赢得了华盛顿州400米比赛的冠军。今年，华盛顿州卡马斯高中的一名男生在赛季中途转入女子越野队，目前表现极为出色。周一，OutKick的杰克逊·汤普森报道称，去年有一名华盛顿州的女孩据称遭到跨性别运动员侵犯，其家人随后向美国最高法院申请了禁令。
"I think that's the entire goal is to try and scare me back into being silent," Kotzmacher said. "But at this point, nothing's going to stop me and nothing's going to stop the other girls." Last year, trans track athlete Veronica Garcia, representing East Valley High in Spokane Valley, won the Washington state title in the 400 meters. This year, a boy for Camas High in WA switched to the girls cross-country team midseason and is currently dominating. And Monday, OutKick's Jackson Thompson reported that a Washington family requested a SCOTUS injunction after their daughter was allegedly assaulted by a trans athlete last year.
华盛顿州已经出现了实实在在的不良后果——全国各地亦是如此。如果华盛顿州的民众想要抵制这种荒谬现象，就必须对I-638提案投下赞成票。
There have been real consequences in that state — just as there have been across the country. If Washingtonians want to say "no" to this madness, they'll have to vote "yes" on I-638.