A trans-identified male runner has led his team to win a Washington cross-country championship.

Aspen Hoffman, a junior at Seattle Academy, placed fourth in the Women’s 5,000 meter race at the Wesco/Emerald Sound Cross Country Championships on Saturday with a time of 20:10.70.

Despite two female runners from King’s Christian High School taking first and second, Seattle Academy came out in first place with a score of 65, three points lower than King’s. Cross country meets rank teams by the lowest score, meaning the higher the finish for the runner, the lower the points.

Former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines, who competed against former UPenn swimmer and biological male Lia Thomas, wrote on X, "He held the team trophy up and started kissing it. He acted like it was solely his forgetting to share it with the girls. Revolting."

"Girls were warned not to say anything/act up on the podium or else they would be suspended ruining their chances of going to State. Parents were warned not to wear political shirts. A coach got suspended for yelling 'fair sports for girls,’" Gaines added, giving congratulations to the "rightful championship team," Kings.

Hoffman competed as a male in the 2021 season as a freshman, finishing the season overall in 72nd place, according to Fox News.