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John Russell (He/Him) at LGBTQ Nation:

A cisgender Washington state high school wrestler is suing state officials, her school district, and others, claiming that a transgender opponent sexually assaulted her during a match. Last week, anti-LGBTQ+ Christian legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a lawsuit on behalf of Kallie Keeler and her mother, Stephanie Brown. The lawsuit claims that during a December 2025 high school girls’ wrestling tournament sponsored by the Washington Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA), Keeler was forced to throw a match to end an alleged sexual assault by her transgender opponent. The complaint alleges that the unnamed opponent, who is misgendered throughout, “sexually assaulted [Keeler], shoving his fingers through her spandex clothing, digitally penetrating her vagina, and holding the position for several seconds.” “To stop this, [Keeler] allowed [her opponent] to pin her,” according to the complaint, resulting in a fourth-place finish in the tournament. Keeler and Brown claim tournament officials did not make them aware that the then-15-year-old would be competing against a transgender wrestler, and if they had, Keeler would have declined to compete. As part of its lawsuit, ADF provided video of the match, recorded by Brown. In the three-minute video, Brown can be heard cheering her daughter on, but at no point does she sound alarmed by what she is seeing. At one point, Keeler’s opponent’s arm can be seen between Keeler’s legs. Keeler then appears to look directly at her mother, who can be heard saying, “I don’t know what she said or why her face looked like that,” while laughing. According to the lawsuit, Keeler allegedly “cried to her mom that her opponents’ fingers are ‘in my c***hie!’” She can’t be heard in the audio in the video, though.

According to Hemant Mehta, multiple wrestlers, wrestling coaches, and parents of youth wrestlers he spoke with for his The Friendly Atheist newsletter told him they saw nothing abnormal in the video.

[...] Brown and Keeler then took their story to local journalist Brandi Kruse, whose reporting went viral among anti-trans advocates. In February, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation into Puyallup School District based on Keeler’s allegations. Still, as Mehta notes, the WIAA has taken no action over the incident, and Pierce County prosecutors declined last week to file criminal charges in the case, according to local NBC affiliate KING 5.

Quispe López at Them:

In an amicus brief, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is pushing back on the Justice Department’s effort to obtain the private medical records of transgender minors from NYU Langone Health via criminal subpoena. Mamdani announced on Monday that the New York City Law Department had filed the brief “in support of transgender New Yorkers” last week.  The amicus brief supports a motion filed by the ACLU, NYCLU, and Lambda Legal on behalf of impacted trans patients to block the DOJ from obtaining patient information, including names, of minors who had received gender-affirming care from the major New York City hospital system from 2020 onward.  “Your medical decisions and personal health information belong to you, not the government,” Mamdani wrote in a post to X on June 15. “Proud to stand with trans and queer young people across New York in defending privacy and dignity for all.” 

The amicus brief comes after the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Texas criminally subpoenaed NYU for the patient information, as well as information about their medical providers, despite medical privacy laws protecting confidential patient details. The DOJ’s subpoena also included requests for information on whether NYU Langone codes gender-affirming medical care under procedure names that do not specifically apply to trans people. New Yorkers urged NYU Langone to not divulge the sensitive details of an already vulnerable group, especially as the Trump administration has repeatedly made moves to ban and criminalize trans minors receiving gender-affirming care. Advocates fear that NYU divulging this private medical information with the DOJ would only add fodder to the Trump administration’s attacks on trans healthcare and endanger young patients.