The 16-year-old said her rival, a male who identifies as female, sexually assaulted her during a wrestling match.
By Catholics for Catholics
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is investigating the case of a Washington State teenage girl who alleges she was sexually assaulted by a transgender rival during a girl’s match.
The Trump administration announced on Friday it has opened a Title IX investigation into the Puyallup School District, according to a Newsmax story. Federal officials said they will conclude whether the district violated Title IX by permitting males to play in female sports, granting entrance to girls’ locker rooms, and failing to properly respond to allegations of sexual assault.
Officials are probing a case that allegedly happened on Dec. 6, 2025, during a wrestling match involving Kallie Keeler, a 16-year-old sophomore at Rogers High School, who plays in the girls’ 190-pound division. She has voluntarily publicly disclosed her identity.
According to Keeler, she alleges that during the match while she was face-down on the mat, her transgender opponent, a man who identifies as a woman, “reached between her legs and, very forcefully for several seconds, tried to push her fingers in my vagina,” she told the podcast “unDivided with Brandi Kruse.”
“That has never happened, out of all the years I’ve wrestled,” Keeler said.
At first, Keeler thought her rival was a female, since the match was described as a girls-only competition. But moments after the match, Keeler said she found out from a coach at another school that her rival was biologically male and identifies as a woman, which she described as appalling.
“I was just kind of like, what? What the heck?” she said. “I didn’t really know what to do or how to handle that situation. I just wanted the match to be over.”
Disgusted, Keeler said she just wanted the match to be over with, so she let her rival pin her.
She told her mother immediately afterward and attempted to report the incident to her coach, saying she felt uncomfortable.
Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey called the allegations “sickening.”
“That a female athlete was not only unknowingly forced to compete against a male in a girls-only division placing her at increased risk for sexual assault, but that her report of sexual assault during the match was ignored for months,” Richey said.
“While the District may prioritize ideological agendas over the safety and dignity of its students, the Trump Administration will not tolerate such conduct,” she added.
Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any education program receiving federal funding.
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