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We are supposed to be protecting girls, yet a Puyallup high school wrestler says she was sexually assaulted on the mat during a girls’ match on December 6, 2025 — and Pierce County prosecutors recently declined to file criminal charges. The family’s anguish and the video footage that circulated made the case a national flashpoint, but the prosecutor’s office concluded a conviction would be unlikely because of a so‑called “consent” defense tied to the rough nature of the sport. This is a gutting verdict for any parent who trusts schools to keep their children safe.
According to the victim’s account and the complaint filed in federal court, the opposing competitor — a biological male competing under the state’s transgender policy — allegedly inserted fingers into the girl’s clothing and caused her clear distress during the match, an act the family describes as sexual assault. The Puyallup School District reportedly sat on the complaint and did not notify law enforcement within the 48‑hour window required by state rules, waiting more than seven weeks before reporting the incident. Federal civil attorneys and the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights both stepped in, and the family filed suit in June seeking accountability from state athletic authorities and school officials.
The prosecutor’s declination memo — which blithely treats invasive touching as merely an unfortunate “by‑product of the game” and points to prior appellate rulings about contact in sports — is an insult to commonsense and to victims everywhere. To say that a teen who was allegedly penetrated during a match somehow consented to that conduct because she chose to wrestle is legally and morally hollow. If the law leaves room for that reasoning, parents cannot be blamed for losing faith in a system that treats ideology and legal gymnastics as more important than a young woman’s bodily safety.
Even worse, this is not just a local failure but a policy failure. The Alliance Defending Freedom has sued the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association, the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Puyallup School District and others, arguing that state rules that force girls to compete against biological males without parental notice risk real harm to female athletes. That lawsuit, filed in federal court on June 10, 2026, seeks to force institutions to choose girls’ safety over an ideological experiment. The defendants are public bodies and officials who must answer for putting doctrine ahead of children.
Conservatives who care about equal treatment for women and the safety of our daughters should not be shy about what needs to change: schools must notify parents if a biological male will be competing in girls’ events, and policies that sacrifice privacy and safety for ideology must be reversed. This is not an attack on anyone’s sincere beliefs; it is a demand that public schools do their primary job — protect students. The family’s civil case is a reminder that when prosecutors decline to act, citizens must pursue accountability through the courts and the ballot box.
At the end of the day, hardworking American parents want clear rules and consistent enforcement, not bureaucratic excuses and moral relativism that place ideology above a child’s well‑being. Elected leaders and school boards who pushed these policies must be held accountable, and prosecutors who rationalize inaction should expect scrutiny for the damage their decisions cause. If we truly value girls’ sports, privacy, and basic decency, we will rally behind victims, demand reforms, and make sure no other girl pays this price while officials look the other way.
