Outrage Erupts as Girl Wrestler Claims Sexual Assault in Controversial Match

A 16-year-old Rogers High School wrestler says she was sexually violated during a girls’ match on December 6, 2025 — an allegation that has ignited outrage and rightly put Puyallup School District under a harsh national spotlight. The teen, who has publicly described the incident and shared video captured by her mother, says she only learned after the match that her opponent is biologically male competing on the girls’ side.

 The footage is chilling and the timeline even more so: the family says they told coaches within days, yet the formal report to law enforcement was not made until weeks later, leaving parents to wonder whether administrators prioritized ideology over immediate protection. Parents and the athlete claim the coach acknowledged the complaint at the time but then disappeared into bureaucratic silence — an account backed up by local reporting and interviews.

Federal authorities have now stepped in, with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opening a directed Title IX investigation into the Puyallup School District to determine whether girls were denied safety or equal protection. At the same time, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed a criminal inquiry is underway into the alleged assault, underscoring that this is no longer just a policy debate but a possible crime scene.

This story is not an isolated accident of administration; reporting suggests dozens of girls had already raised alarm about males in girls’ spaces before this horrific incident, with at least a dozen teammates reportedly filing safety complaints that administrators allegedly ignored. That pattern of silence is the predictable result when woke policies displace common-sense protections — and it screams deliberate indifference, not compassion.

Across the country, federal investigators and conservative lawmakers have been pushing back on school policies that allow biological males to compete in girls’ sports, arguing those policies violate Title IX and put girls at physical and sexual risk. The Puyallup case is the practical, human consequence of that policy experiment: when ideology trumps biology, girls lose safety and fairness, and taxpayers get the bill.

Americans who still believe in protecting girls’ sports and basic decency should be furious and mobilized, not mollified with token statements from school PR desks. District leaders must be held accountable, the criminal and federal investigations must run their course without political interference, and state legislatures should finally act to restore commonsense sex-based protections so no young woman has to step onto a mat wondering whether she will be safe.