Glencoe High School junior Lilian Hammond is speaking out after she unknowingly competed against and changed alongside a biological male on another swimming team during her sophomore year.

The female high-school swimmer is speaking out about the ‘traumatic’ moment she found out she had been sharing a locker room with a transgender opponent after being kept in the dark by a rival school.

As a sophomore in the winter of 2023-24, Hammond unknowingly competed against and shared a locker room with a biological male opponent on another team. She said she competed against the athlete multiple times, assuming the athlete was a biological female.

“It wasn’t until the last meet that I realized, ‘Oh, that is a trans person,’ and by that point, it was too late,” Hammond told Fox News Digital.

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