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Kendall Kotzmacher will never forget the day she stepped into the batter's box against Marissa Rothenberger .
It was a Minnesota state tournament semifinal. Kotzmacher and her White Bear Lake High School teammates were looking to go on a run to the state championship game. Kotzmacher had just transferred to White Bear Lake for her final year with the goal of winning a championship, alongside her little sister and teammate.
But Rothenberger, a trans athlete, was on the mound that day for their opponent, Champlin Park High School.
"They're moving ten times more," Kotzmacher told Fox News Digital of Rothenberger's pitches.
"I have seen movement pitches, so when your hands are bigger than a biological female at that age, i