Trans runner shatters women's sprinting record only one year after earning 19th place in male competition

Outrage ensued after a trans-identified biological male shattered the 300m women's track record at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The transgender student only recently began competing in the women's division and the victory has sparked widespread indignation.

Sadie Schreiner, formerly known as Camden, set a new record at a collegiate track and field competition at Nazareth University in New York on Dec. 8. Schreiner dominated female competitors in the 300m race, coming in at 41.80 seconds.

"Schreiner reportedly competed at the same meet a year ago in the men's category of the 100m, where she came home in 19th place," Daily Mail reports.

Schreiner made the record-breaking finish at the expense of Houghton University freshman Victoria "Tori" Brewster who came in third, and sophomore SUNY Genesco runner Brynn Mooney who came in second by .86 seconds.

Mooney was on the undefeated Honeoye Falls-Lima Girls varsity volleyball team and made the president's list at SUNY Genesco. Brewster signed on to run track and field at Houghton University after her final high school season at Odessa-Montour in New York. Brewster followed her brother and father to the school and said earlier this year that she was proud to join the Highlander track and field team, for which her father ran as well. She was the pride of her high school track team as well as a stand out on the basketball team.

Riley Gaines, a former collegiate swimmer-turned-women's sports activist, voiced her opposition to Schreiner being named as a record holder because it was "established by a male." While competing for the University of Kentucky, Gaines was forced to compete against trans-identified male swimmer and NCAA champion Lia Thomas, who dominated the female competition on behalf of the University of Pennsylvania.

"This happens a lot for something that never happens," Gaines said on X.

The fact that Schreiner's 300-meter time is equivalent to a mere 41st-place finish in the men's category infuriated those who assert Schreiner has an unfair advantage over biological females, as evidenced by his record-breaking efforts this month.

"There are numerous documented instances of males competing not just in women's swimming, but also in women's track, cross country, basketball, volleyball, field hockey, and other sports at all levels of competition," Gaines told Congress in testimony earlier this month.

Following Schreiner's record-breaking victory, journalist Cindy Hoedel said transgender competitors are "making a mockery" out of women's sports.

"Women will have to spend years getting these men's times stripped. The women who won will eventually be acknowledged in record books but will never get back the stolen experience of standing atop the podium," said Hoedel.

Gaines, a vocal opponent of trans-identified biological males competing in women's athletics, testified this month before Congress as members of the chamber consider the Biden administration's proposed changes to Title IX regulations to add gender identity as a protected class.

Gaines also provided testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding her traumatic experience of sharing a locker room with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas in March 2022. Thomas generated controversy as the first transgender athlete to triumph at the NCAA Championships. 

"In addition to being forced to give up our awards, our titles, and our opportunities, the NCAA forced me and my female swimmers to share a locker room with Thomas, a 6'4' 22-year-old male equipped with (and exposing) male genitalia," said Gaines.

Schreiner's victory is only the most recent instance of an increasing number of transgender athletes achieving success in women's sports, despite the fact that masculine puberty provides them with an unfair physical advantage, as reported by experts, the outlet said.