Trans Track Star Verónica Garcia Tells Critics To ‘Get A Life’ After Being Booed For Dominating Girls’ Washington State H.S. Championship For 2nd Year

Transgender athlete Verónica Garcia told her critics to “get a life” after she was booed for dominating the girls’ Washington state track high school championship for the second year in a row.

On May 31, Garcia once again won the Class 2A 400-meter dash at Mount Tahoma High School. The scoreboard showed that she had a time of 55.70.

While being booed by the audience at her medal ceremony, she took a moment to embrace her victory.

As the runner for East Valley of Spokane was warming up before the race, a man wearing an American flag shirt reading “Save women’s sports” could be seen near the starting blocks. The man kept repeating the phrases “let’s go girls” and “girls’ race.”

But despite the criticisms, Garcia did not let them hold her back during the race.

“I’ll be honest, I kind of expect it,” she told The Seattle Times. “But it maybe didn’t have their intended effect. It made me angry, but not angry as in I wanted to give up, but angry as in I’m going to push.

“I’m going to put this in the most PG-13 way: I’m just going to say it’s a d— shame they don’t have anything else better to do. I hope they get a life. But oh well. It just shows who they are as people.”

The athlete beat second-place finisher Lauren Matthew of West Spokane by almost an entire second and beat her time from the 2024 state final by .05 seconds. 

Garcia won last year’s championship with a time of 55.75. In doing so, she became the first transgender athlete in Washington State to win a state track title. 

“I’m really proud of myself,” she said. “I did what I came to do, and that’s good enough for me.”

Trans athletes in girls’ sports have been a hot topic this year. ESPN’s College GameDay analyst Kirk Herbstreit and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-California) have spoken out vocally against trans athletes competing in girls’ sports.

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