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Western Michigan softball player Kendall Kotzmacher is in the process of filing her taxes for the first time. He does so knowing his state and federal taxes, as a resident of Minnesota, will go to court over his state’s refusal to bar boys from attending girls’ games.
Kotzmacher had to compete against a biological male transgender pitcher in the Minnesota state playoffs in his final high school season in 2025. He had to watch a trans athlete dominate his team and close out his season. Now, as the state continues to allow that athlete to compete against girls, she may have to watch her little sister compete against that athlete again this season.
Kotzmacher, who earned money as a part-time softball coach and through NIL deals, including one with activist apparel company XX-XY Athletics, will have to share some of that money to fund the legal battle to “save girls’ sports.”
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Champlin Park celebrates winning the State Championship while Bloomington Jefferson watches. (Amber Harding)
“I feel like I could use that money more, knowing that it’s going to go to these little girls who shouldn’t have to deal with something like that, you know, it’s going to go to these girls that I’ve worked for my whole life and I can’t do anything about,” Kotzmacher told Fox News Digital.
“It’s really frustrating, you know, and good country, this doesn’t happen, and this money doesn’t need to go to court, like the one that’s going on right now. And all of this can be easily pushed aside if the state complies, and if the Governor. [Tim] Walz can get just the idea. And let’s fight for women and take our side for once when we’ve all been pushed this way. ”
The DOJ has declared that it is suing educational institutions in Minnesota Monday for its continued refusal to comply with President Donald Trump’s order to ban biological transaction male athletes from girls’ high school sports in the state. The DOJ alleged that the state Department of Education (MDE) and the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) violated Title IX.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison filed the lawsuit last year, saying the state’s civil rights act supersedes President Donald Trump’s. The lawsuit said at the time the state was already in compliance with Title IX. It is still expected that a decision will be made regarding the Government’s proposal to dismiss this case.
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Much of the conflict between the state and administration centered on the role of transgender pitcher, Marissa Rothenberger, of Champlin Park, who led the school to a state title. This athlete will compete again this season at Champlin Park.
“My little sister, she played with me last year. She’s still playing so it’s really hard,” said Kotzmacher. “I’m lucky it’s not allowed at the NCAA level. But there are all these girls that I don’t want to go through again, and I don’t want my sister to go through what I had to do and what she had to go through last year.”
During a Minnesota state tournament semifinalist last spring, Rothenberger held Kotzmacher’s White Bear Lake team to just two runs on seven hits. Rothenberger hit a double to lead off the final inning, and set up a pinch runner to win the game for Champlin Park.
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Kotzmacher previously told Fox News Digital that when the game ended, she fell into her younger sister’s arms and started crying.
“I honestly wanted to leave right away. I didn’t want to do anything else,” Kotzmacher said. “I couldn’t even process what just happened.
“How do you accept that you lost to a natural man? How do you process those events that happened? And that was something that night, that I couldn’t do… we lost to a natural man in a women’s government competition.”
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Now, as he tries to excel in his college career, Kotzmacher said he’s invested in Minnesota’s high school season as an activist.
“I hope people really work to get this done before the high school season ends because the last thing that should happen is a repeat of last year,” he said. “And I truly believe that Champlin park’s championship title should be stripped away and there is no reason that in the records or the annals of the high school league, Champlain park’s name should be anywhere near the winning season that he had.”
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