{"id":3590,"date":"2024-04-24T14:45:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T14:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2024-04-24T14:45:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T14:45:53","slug":"high-school-wrestler-forfeits-state-tournament-immediately-when-he-sees-who-opponent-is-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=3590","title":{"rendered":"High school wrestler forfeits state tournament immediately when he sees who opponent is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Colorado high school wrestler Brendan Johnston made headlines in 2018 when he chose to forfeit two state tournament matches against girls due to his religious and personal beliefs. By declining these matches, he ended his high school wrestling career. Brendan, a senior at the time, refused to compete against Jaslynn Gallegos and Angel Rios, citing discomfort with wrestling girls.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining his decision to KDVR, Brendan, a Christian, said, \u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s really appropriate with a young lady. It\u2019s also very aggressive and I\u2019m not really comfortable with that.\u201d He emphasized his belief in equality while acknowledging differences between men and women. Despite his decision, Brendan placed sixth in the tournament, while Jaslynn and Angel placed fourth and fifth, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Jaslynn expressed disappointment but respect for Brendan\u2019s choice, telling the Washington Post, \u201cMy whole thing is that I\u2019m not a girl wrestler; I\u2019m just a wrestler.\u201d She highlighted her desire to be recognized for her skills rather than her gender.<\/p>\n<div class=\"684f6003e199ca137b09540a661b4c2d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<!-- Composite Start -->\r\n<div id=\"M940464ScriptRootC1583286\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/jsc.adskeeper.com\/k\/o\/kohajone.press.1583286.js\" async>\r\n<\/script>\r\n<!-- Composite End -->\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Colorado high school wrestler Brendan Johnston made headlines in 2018 when he chose to forfeit two state tournament matches against girls due to his religious and&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3592,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions\/3592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}