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Sadie Schreiner Sues Princeton Over Alleged Gender Discrimination in Women’s Track Meet

Filed July 14 in Mercer County Superior Court, the complaint alleges she was removed from the 200m heat minutes before the race under New Jersey’s anti-discrimination law

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Overview

  • The lawsuit names Athletics Director John Mack and Track Operations Director Kimberly Keenan-Kirkpatrick as defendants for their roles in excluding Schreiner
  • Schreiner alleges her name was dropped from the official heat list 15 minutes before the women’s 200m after a Princeton official questioned her transgender status
  • The complaint argues that Princeton and event partner Leon Timing and Results Services violated the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination’s protections for gender identity
  • The suit is pending in Mercer County Superior Court and Princeton has declined to comment publicly
  • Schreiner, a former Division III All-American at Rochester Institute of Technology, has challenged exclusionary eligibility rules since the NCAA’s February ban on trans women