KEY POINTS

  • A 25-year-old choked her 17-year-old teammate over alleged transphobia
  • Averie Chanel Medlock was given a criminal citation after the attack
  • The minor's parents asked for bodycam and CCTV camera footage to be released

Ranger, Texas -- An adult transgender cheerleader, assigned male at birth, has accused her college of being racist after she was thrown out of a Texas cheerleading camp and given a criminal citation following a fight with a fellow teammate.

Averie Chanel Medlock, 25, choked her 17-year-old teammate, Karleigh Jones, who allegedly called her a "man with a penis."

Medlock took to her Facebook page to announce her ouster. "Well guys I’m officially retired as a cheerleader as of last night at 5:30 AM. A girl on the team was being very disrespectful and told me I am a MAN with a PENIS and that [guys] should not be on the team," cheerleader Averie Chanel Medlock wrote, according to New York Post.

"I stood up for myself and she called her mom and dad because she was scared because I [stood] up for myself. Her father said 'she still has testosterone and a penis and I will kill anyone who comes after my daughter.'"

Medlock posted a four-minute POV video on her page where someone is heard calling her a "man with a penis" from behind a closed door. Medlock urges this is the same person she fought with.

Karleigh's parents are urging the police to release the bodycam and CCTV footage of the incident.

People on social media have harshly criticized Medlock for attacking a minor. The hate got worse after she shared a recent screen recording of a chat group where someone is heard making a transphobic comment in a voice note.

"So tonight I was added to the group chat because friends told me I was being talked about badly and this is what was said example one RanegerCollege and their discriminatory ways Ranger College This is what the representation of Ranger College is!!! SMH so racist Ranger College Athletics," she wrote in the caption of the post.

"And now.. the race card. How pathetic," said one comment. "You're a man and you assaulted a woman. We're going to find out soon the woman you assaulted was a minority and all of your cries about racism are going to evaporate," read another irate comment.

"Mr. Avery is so embarrassing. He chooses a white girl name as his new lady name. He wears a synthetic blonde wig mimicking white girls. He photoshops his face to make it 50 shades lighter, hoping it’ll erase the blackness he is so deeply ashamed of. He catfishes closeted white men hoping for some DL BwC — and then when they reject his advances, he cries racism," wrote another.

A person holds up a flag during rally to protest the Trump administration's reported transgender proposal to narrow the definition of gender to male or female at birth, at City Hall in New York City, U.S., October 24, 2018.
A person holds up a flag during rally to protest the Trump administration's reported transgender proposal to narrow the definition of gender to male or female at birth, at City Hall in New York City, U.S., October 24, 2018. Reuters / BRENDAN MCDERMID