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On April 19, the mid -distance Olympic corridor from the United States, Nikki Hiltz, published a Tiktok video that included images of an interview with the Natalie Daniels female marathon runner. The publication came only two days before Daniels would compete in the Boston Marathon, and only six months after giving birth to his first child.
Hiltz Tiktok opened with a Daniels clip sharing how he considered not competing in the marathon because biologically male trans athletes would be competing in the female field. The clip was originally from a promotional interview with the XX-XY Athletic Sports Cup activist brand.
In the same publication on the popular social networks platform, Hiltz encouraged Daniels to leave due to his concerns about trans inclusion, while he did not agree with the position of the new mother against her.
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Nikki Hiltz reacts after winning 1,500 meters of women in a 3: 55.33 meeting record during the tests of the US Olympic team. UU. In Hayward Field, in Eugene, Oregon, June 30, 2024. (Kirby Lee-USA Today Sports)
For Hiltz, the post was in line with the regular Tiktok content of the athlete, which often shows the Olympic that promotes pro-transgender beliefs and argues against the opposition to trans inclusion in sports. Hiltz is a biologically feminine athlete that competes in the women’s category, while identifying as transgender and non -binary.
Shortly after Hiltz’s Tiktok postz launched, the reaction was addressed to Daniels, who said that many of Hiltz’s followers and fans began sending their surprising messages.
“I didn’t think there was this rabid cruelty,” Daniels told Fox Digital for the response he received from the interview. “People tried to meet when we were in Boston.”
Daniels alleges that a person said: “‘I live in Boston, and if I see you on the street, I’m going to hunt you'”.
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The Marathon broker, Natalie Daniels, runs during the Boston Marathon on April 21, 2025. (Courtesy of Natalie Daniels)
The new mother said that the worst presumed comment he saw was a person who said: “I hope her son comes out as trans and never speak to him again.” ” His son had only six months at that time.
Daniels said he is finally responsible for the messages directed towards her and her family. Even so, he quoted Tiktok from Hiltz for contributing to the violent reaction.
“[Hiltz] It has freedom of expression too. So [Hiltz’s] The opinion is as valid to be shared as mine, “Daniels said.” I think that [Hiltz] He encouraged a battery that really came out of his hands, probably, I think, very quickly … I think the fact that [Hiltz] I did nothing about it is not surprising.
“I think I am ultimately responsible for what I said. And I know that what I said was said for love and the desire to continue supporting and encouraging the sports of women and women.”
Even so, he did not facilitate the experience for Daniels.
“The very hateful messages were annoying. There were sometimes when I would only be, I don’t want to cry, but sometimes it simply began to cry,” he said. “And I would tell my husband: ‘I’m sorry, it’s at most, it’s a lot to deal with, that people are like’ are this evil intolerant and ‘or’ you are stupid ‘.”
The runners cross the output line of the 125th Boston Marathon, in Hopkinton, Mass. (Photo AP/Mary Schwalm, Archive)
“Instead of having this very rational commitment, they went directly to threats and violence.”
Pak Gazette Digital communicated with Hiltz’s talent agency, Hawi Management, for an answer.
When Boston Marathon arrived on April 21, Daniels was prepared for possible attacks and faced her in the course after receiving messages warning her, she alleges. But instead, he only listened to the roar support songs, he says. He even had one of his best finishes, reaching the finish line at 2:50:04 in 110th place.
Love continued on social networks, since it saw a lot of praise and respect that finally eclipsed the support he was receiving for defending women’s sports and appearing in the XX-XY athletics interview to begin with.
For Daniels, he helped validate a decision that made, partly due to the experience of becoming a new mother. Daniels said that during his pregnancy, a trip to an obstetrician included a survey that assumed that the only reason he was pregnant was due to a failed birth control, and not his own intentions.
“In society, I feel that there is this reductive definition of what it means to be a woman, and what it means to be a woman is basically one thing, and it is access to abortion. And in our culture, that seems that this is all of us that we are supposed to worry about,” said Daniels, a native of Virginia. He added that the survey and the growing cultural stigmatization of pregnancy, fed in their passion for protecting female athletes from trans inclusion as well.
“I know that these things can be different things, but everything is related to this dehumanization of women. For me it feels like in this culture, in this political climate, femininity is this incredibly nebula and indefinable thing,” he added.
The decision obtained praise and support from Daniels during the marathon and online, but not from his career club, Light Horse Track Club in Washington, DC, who alleges that he was more aligned with Hiltz than her.
Daniels said he faced the decision to appear in the XX-XY athletics interview with the club’s leadership.
Natalie Daniels runners, on the left, and Nikki Hiltz. (Courtesy of Natalie Daniels/Getty Images)
Daniels said he offered to make a statement clarifying that his position was not destined to attack trans people for their identities, but to defend women like her. But that was not going to be enough, he said.
She alleges that they offered to let her continue running for the club if she made an apology and publicly recognized the ability that a biological man became a woman, which he refused to do.
Daniels alleges that the club told him that to appease his directors, he had to share a statement in social networks that said: “‘Now I understand that a person can take hormones and surgery, and can become a woman'”.
“I thought, ‘I’m not going to do that. I can’t do that …’ ‘is completely against my Christian values,” he said. “It goes completely against what I know about how God works.”
Daniels said he later learned of his team removal through a text message and an email from the board while sitting in his patio.
Then, now, she is starting her own career club with the Athletics XX-XY and the founder Jennifer Sey.
And while he is still adapting to hate in regular line, and even the occasional molding of the spectators in competitions, Daniels said he hopes to raise his family and embrace his new role in the movement to keep trans athletes out of women’s sports.
Light Horse Track Club did not immediately respond to the request for comments from Pak Gazette Digital.
