Nikki Hiltz: the most disgruntled Women's national champion ever

The Track and Field World Championships have been going on and I’ve been blown away by women’s performances—the indomitable Faith Kipyegon, the long-striding Athing Mu, the tenacious Alicia Monson. No matter where she crosses the finish line, I love watching Laura Muir race.

The part of these amazing performances you don’t see is the level playing field these athletes compete on. (Oh dang, it only took three sentences for me to start banging my drum). World Athletics ruled that the female category was for natal women (and men who identify as female and did not go through any part of male puberty—an unnecessary bone to gender ideology), so we can celebrate these astounding performances knowing they are fair. Of course the winner had an advantage, some infinitesimal, crucial combination of talent, training, strategy, and luck that allowed her to prevail by a fraction of a second over her rivals. But we can be sure they all started with the same raw materials—the condition of being female. That includes the US Women’s 1500 meter Champion, Nikki Hiltz, who competed in the above video of the Women’s 1500 meter semi-final.

Hiltz was born female and is still female, though she identifies as transgender and nonbinary. Hiltz has never explained how one can transition from female to male (binary) and yet hover somewhere in an esoteric nonbinary netherland. That is the mystery of gender ideology that must be taken on faith, even if you’re not a believer. Particularly if you’re not a believer.

Hiltz gets most of her press by declaring how uncomfortable she feels competing in the female category, yet from the very beginning of her career she has done so. She won the girls’ California state track title, she got a scholarship to run on the women’s team at Oregon and Arkansas. She has never raced as a boy or man. That could be because Hiltz’s best 1500 meter time as a professional of 4:00.84 might not win a competitive high school boys’ race. Because she loudly rejects her female sex, I thought she shouldn’t accept the women’s national championship title, but it seems she was only too happy to do so. Gender identity is indeed very fluid and hard to understand.

Hiltz’s victim attitude in combo with denial of sex differences she clearly understands is beyond annoying. She told the New York Times that, were it not for competing at the top level of women’s sports, she would have a double mastectomy and take testosterone. (Question: Why is nonbinary so male?). But those are the dumb transphobic rules (one can insert the heavy sigh and eye roll).

“Right now, competing in the women’s category still feels OK for me and my gender and where I’m at with that journey,” Hiltz said. “But the second it doesn’t, I’m not going to sacrifice myself for my sport. I’m going to choose the relationship with myself before my relationship with track and field.”

As it is, she said she’ll continue to race as a woman for the opportunity to qualify for the 2024 Olympics. What Hiltz knows but does not say is that the only reason she has any opportunity to qualify for the 2024 Olympics is because World Athletics has fenced off women’s track for women only, and tests for performance enhancing drugs like testosterone. If they did not, and women’s track was open to men who identified as women, Hiltz and her 4:00 1500 meter would have a career as a barista, not a female track star.