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On April 19, the American runner of the Olympic distance, Nikki Hiltz, published a Tiktok video which included images of an interview with the female runner Natalie Daniels. The position intervened only two days before Daniels compete in the Boston marathon, and only six months after giving birth to his first child.
Tiktok de Hiltz opened its doors with a clip of Daniels sharing how she considered that she did not participate in the marathon because the trans male athletes would compete with the field of women. The clip was from a promotional interview with the XX-OX-OXTICS activist sports clothing brand.
In the same article on the popular social media platform, Hiltz encouraged Daniels to abandon because of his concerns about transcusion trans, while disagreling with the position of the new mother against her.
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Nikki Hiltz reacts after winning the 1,500 m female in a 3: 55.33 competition record in the tests of the American Olympic team in Hayward Field, Eugene, Oregon, June 30, 2024. (Kirby Lee-USA today Sport)
For Hiltz, the post was in accordance with the regular Tiktok content of the athlete, which often shows Olympian promoting pro-transgender beliefs and competing for the opposition to trans inclusion in sport. Hiltz is an organic female athlete that participates in the women’s category, while identifying themselves as transgender and non -binary.
Shortly after Tiktok Post of Hiltz was put online, his reaction was intended for Daniels, who said that many subscribers and Hiltz fans began to send his surprising messages.
“I did not think that there would be this rabid cruelty,” Daniels told PK Press Club Digital of the response she received from the interview. “People were trying to find us when we were in Boston.”
Daniels alleys that a person said to him: “” I live in Boston, and if I see you in the street, I’m going to track you down. “”
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The runner of the Natalie Daniels marathon takes place during the Boston marathon on April 21, 2025. (Thanks to Natalie Daniels)
The new mother said that the worst alleged comment she had seen came from a person who said: “” I hope your son will come out like Trans and no longer speak to you. “” His son was only six months old at the time.
Daniels said that she was finally taking responsibility for messages addressed to her and her family. However, she quoted Tiktok de Hiltz for having contributed to the reaction.
“”[Hiltz] Also has freedom of expression. SO [Hiltz’s] Opinion is just as valid to be shared as mine, “said Daniels.” I think [Hiltz] encouraged a battery which has become really uncontrollable, probably, I think, very quickly … I think the fact [Hiltz] Did nothing about it is not surprising.
“I think that I am finally responsible for what I said. And I know that what I said was said for love and a desire to continue to support and encourage the sports of women and women.”
However, that has not facilitated experience for Daniels.
“The very hateful messages were overwhelming. There was a few times when I was just, I don’t want to cry, but several times I was starting to cry,” she said. “And I would say to my husband:” I’m sorry, it’s like many, it’s a lot to manage, to have people like “you are this evil hateful bigot”, or “you are stupid”. “”
The runners cross the starting line of the 125th Boston marathon, in Hopkinton, Mass. (AP photo / Mary Schwalm, file)
“Instead of having this very rational commitment, they went directly to threats and violence.”
PK Press Club Digital contacted the Talent Agency of Hiltz, Hawi Management, for an answer.
When the day of the Boston marathon came on April 21, Daniels was prepared for potential attacks and heckled against her on the course after receiving messages warning her, she claims. But instead, she has never heard only rugging songs of support, she says. She even had one of her best finishes, reaching the finish line in 2:50:04 in 110th place.
Love continued on social networks, because it saw a wave of praise and respect which ultimately overshadowed the support it obtained to defend female sports and appear in the interview with XX-Sox athletics to begin.
For Daniels, it helped to validate a decision that she made, partly due to the experience of becoming a new mother. Daniels said that during her pregnancy, a trip to an obstetrician included an investigation which assumed that the only reason she was pregnant was due to a failed birth control, not to her own intentions.
“In society, I just have the impression that there is this reductive definition of what it means to be a woman, and what it means to be a woman is essentially one thing, and it is access to abortion. And in our culture, which seems a little that it is all that is supposed to worry,” said Daniels, from Virginia. She added that the growing cultural investigation and cultural stigma of pregnancy also fueled in her passion for the protection of female athletes against trans inclusion.
“I know that these things can be different things, but everything is linked to this dehumanization of women. For me, it looks like this culture, in this political climate, femininity is this incredibly nebulous and indefinable thing,” she added.
The decision earned Daniels praise and support during the marathon and online, but not from his race club, Light Horse Track Club in Washington, DC, which, according to her, was more aligned with Hiltz than she.
Daniels said that she had been faced with the decision to appear in the XX-XE athletics interview by club leadership.
The Natalie Daniels runners, on the left, and Nikki Hiltz. (Graciousness of Natalie Daniels / Getty Images)
Daniels said that she had proposed to make a clarifying statement that her position was not supposed to attack trans people for their identity, but to defend women like her. But that was not enough, she said.
She alleges that they proposed to let her continue to run for the club if she would apologize and publicly recognize the ability of a biological man to become a woman, which she refused to do.
Daniels alleges that she was informed by the club that to appease her directors, she had to share a statement on social networks that said: “” I now understand that a person can undergo hormones and surgery, and they can become a woman. “”
“I said to myself:” I’m not going to do that. I can’t do that … “It goes completely against my Christian values,” she said. “It goes completely against what I know about the functioning of God.”
Daniels said that she then discovered her withdrawal from the team via an SMS and an email from the board of directors when she was sitting on her patio.
So now, she starts her own race club with XX-Xy Athletics and founder Jennifer Sey.
And although it always adapts to regular online hatred, and even to occasional spectators during competitions, Daniels said that she was impatient to raise her family and adopt her new role in the movement to keep the trans athletes outside female sports.
The Light Horse Track Club did not immediately respond to the request for comments from PK Press Club Digital.
