A transgender runner at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, was placed on the school's team, displacing one girl from her spot, despite reportedly failing to consistently attending practices or met key varsity eligibility requirements. 

In response, her teammates wore t-shirts featuring the slogan, 'Save Girls Sports,' which were likened to a swastika by school officials, according to Fox News. 

The athletic department's officials allegedly forced the girls to remove the t-shirts, claiming that they created a 'hostile' environment and likened them to wearing the insignia of the German Nazi Party in front of Jewish students. 

Now, Kylie Morrow, a 16-year-old student on the cross country team, has addressed the controversy at a Riverside Unified School District board meeting. 

Speaking Thursday, Morrow slammed her school and the notion that trans athletes should be allowed to compete in women's sports, opening up on how the situation has affected her and her teammates. 

'I'm constantly affected by the actions taken place this season, and I have been around the females, and just my team in general, who have felt almost silenced to speak out about it, because the whole LGBTQ is shoved down our throats!' Morrow said.

'We live in a society where it's almost impossible to speak out on it without facing repercussions.' 

Morrow also revealed that she had personally approached the school's athletic director to defend her teammates over the comparisons of their t-shirt protests to swastikas. 

'It feels as though that my school and the school district is choosing to support one person instead of the whole team,' Morrow said. 

'To see the athletic director turn around and tell my teammates that their shirts that say, 'Save girl's sports' be compared to a swastika, that is not okay. These girls feel silenced, they felt silenced, and when they finally did something to speak out against it . . . they were completely stabbed in the back.'