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Ten athletes account for the 269 girls' event entries; one has 36 of the 74 wins

Stacked bars: the 269 entries in Washington girls' school events that HeCheated.org attributes to male-born athletes, by athlete (coded A to J) and finish.

Credit: FactHub Research Team, from HeCheated.org's Washington K-12 table

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Stacked bar chart of 269 entries by ten coded athletes. Athlete A 65 entries (8 wins), B 64 (36 wins), C 54 (6 wins), D 43 (18 wins), E 16 (1 win), F 12 (3 wins), G 8 (no wins, all top three), H 5, I 1 (a 1977 win), J 1 (a win).

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Ten athletes account for all 269 entries in the Yes campaign's count. Four athletes account for 226 of them. Athlete B has 36 of the 74 wins and athlete D, a middle-schooler, 18; together they have 54 (73%). Athletes A and C finished fourth or lower in most of their entries. Across all athletes, 113 of the 269 entries were not top-three finishes.

What this chart asks

How many athletes account for the Yes campaign's 269 placements, and how did their entries finish?

Why it is shown this way

  • Stacked bars show both how many entries each athlete has (bar height) and how many were wins or top-three finishes (segments), so the concentration in a few athletes and the share of lower finishes are visible together.
  • Athletes are coded by letter, never named, because most are minors.

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Washington girls' school events entered by male-born athletes, as tallied by HeCheated.org (anonymized)

  1. HeCheated.org, Washington K-12 results Source of every entry: the table embedded in the page, with HeCheated's summary of 272 events, 75 first places and 158 top-three finishes as of retrieval.

    Retrieved October 23, 2026. All rights reserved by HeCheated; facts extracted and anonymized. FactHub republishes only the factual fields needed to reproduce the counts, without names, schools or meet names.

    Reliability: Advocacy group. Has a stake in this finding. HeCheated.org says it provides data on males in female competition and campaigns against their inclusion. Each row links to a results page (MileSplit, Athletic.net, news or social media); athlete identification is its own.

  2. HeCheated.org, Washington K-12 athletes HeCheated's list of the Washington athletes and the source it links for each, used to describe how athletes were identified.

    Retrieved October 23, 2026. All rights reserved by HeCheated; cited, not copied. Not redistributed; linked only.

    Reliability: Advocacy group. Has a stake in this finding. Same publisher as the results table. Several athletes on the page have no linked source.

  3. Carol Dansereau, "No Boys in Girls' Sports! (In-depth article.)", Substack, 2026-10-08 Provenance of the count: it gives 272 events, 158 top-three and 75 first places and cites the HeCheated Washington page (footnote 5, dated August 2026). A companion flyer the same day uses the pamphlet's 269, 156 and 74.

    Retrieved October 23, 2026. All rights reserved; cited, not copied. Not redistributed; linked only.

    Reliability: Advocacy group. Has a stake in this finding. The author campaigns for IL26-638 and wrote a Yes flyer that repeats the pamphlet figures.

  4. WIAA, 2023 State 2A-3A-4A Track and Field Championships results Official results used to check a 2023 state-meet relay entry.

    Retrieved October 12, 2026. Public results. Linked only.

    Reliability: Government. Official meet results from the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association, the body that runs high-school championships.

  5. WIAA, 2024 State 2A-3A-4A Track and Field Championships results Official results used to check the 2024 state-meet track entries.

    Retrieved October 12, 2026. Public results. Linked only.

    Reliability: Government. Official WIAA meet results.

  6. WIAA, 2025 State 2A-3A-4A Track and Field Championships results Official results used to check the 2025 state-meet track entries.

    Retrieved October 12, 2026. Public results. Linked only.

    Reliability: Government. Official WIAA meet results.

  7. MileSplit Washington meet results Independent results pages (the raw results linked from each sampled HeCheated row) used to check 12 regular-season entries.

    Retrieved October 23, 2026. Public results. Linked only.

    Reliability: Industry. Commercial results site that posts meet results supplied by timers and meet hosts.

  8. Washington Secretary of State, 2026 voters' pamphlet, IL26-638 The claim being traced: the Yes rebuttal's 269 placements, 74 firsts and 156 top-three finishes (page 22).

    Retrieved October 23, 2026. Washington state public record. Linked only.

    Reliability: Government. The Secretary of State prints each campaign's argument as submitted and is not responsible for its content.

Limitations

  • Rests on HeCheated.org's advocacy tally; FactHub did not confirm each athlete's sex, and the tally may miss athletes and meets.
  • Each event counts once, so an athlete who ran three events at one meet has three entries. Relay entries are team results.
  • Athlete I's single entry is from 1977; athlete E's entries are girls' ultimate in a non-WIAA league.

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  • Article wa-i638-girls-event-placements — version 5 (published) cites version 3
  • Briefing wa-i-638 — version 5 (published) cites version 3
  • Briefing wa-i-638 — version 4 (published) cites version 3