Trans Pitcher Marissa Rothenberger Drags Champlin Park to MN Girls Softball State Title

The date was June 6, 2025, when for the first time in recorded history, a transgender biological male (XY) won a state championship in Minnesota Girls (XX) high school softball.

Marissa Rothenberger — born Charlie Dean Rothenberger until he began transitioning to a she at just 9 years old — is now 6’0″ tall junior and the No. 1 pitcher for Champlin Park high school girls softball, which on Friday morning defeated Bloomington-Jefferson 6-0 in the 4A Minnesota State Championship.

Minnesota Trans pitcher Marissa Rothenberger dominates AAAA State Softball Tournament for Champlin Park

Rothenberger is the ace of the team’s pitching staff and probably the best high school softball pitcher in the state of Minnesota. On Friday, the towering 17-year-old with long blonde hair pitched a complete-game shutout and held Bloomington Jefferson to just 3 hits, bringing Marissa’s 2025 pitching statistics to a rest at 94 IP, 0.74 ERA, 0.65 WHIP and .176 BAA.

And that’ll do it – Champlin Park wins the Class 4A Minnesota state softball championship, beating Bloomington Jefferson 6-0.

Marissa Rothenberger pitched a complete-game shutout and gave up only 3 hits. pic.twitter.com/4uS7aSejqS

— Amber Harding Snyder (@TheAmberHarding) June 6, 2025

This wasn’t the first big game of Rothenberger’s tournament, either Champlin Park’s coaches weren’t afraid to ride Marissa (formerly Charlie Dean) through the section and state tournament field.

See, Softball –just like baseball — is a team game. But there is one HUGE difference. Throwing underhand, even when whipping your arm up and around in a standard fastpitch motion, is much more natural on the human arm than throwing overhand, the way baseball pitchers do. Thus, unlike baseball pitchers at the high school level, there are no pitch limits for softball pitchers.

Related: High School Girls File Lawsuit vs State of MN for Allowing 6-Foot Transgender Softball Pitcher

That allowed Rothenberger to pitch five straight games for Rebels, where the biological male – turned transgender female gave up just 1 earned run in 35 total innings (and struck out 27 batters) between the section finals (best of three vs Rogers) to their state title victory on Friday over Bloomington-Jefferson, earning Rothenberger All-Tournament Team honors.

Last night, a man single-handedly carried his high school in Minnesota to a Class 4A Softball Championship.

He pitched 14 shutout innings in back-to-back games to defeat the defending state champs.

14. Shutout. Innings.

You are a shameful, sorry excuse for a man, @GovTimWalz pic.twitter.com/MGmBRPXdb7

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) May 30, 2025

Oh, and not listed above, Marissa also went 5-of-16 from the plate, with 2 doubles, 3 RBI and a run scored on the Rebels’ run to the 2025 AAAA Minnesota Softball State Championship.

Minnesota… what are we doing?

For those who want to dismiss this as a story, it’s important to note the science behind why males play separately from females beyond the age of elementary school. It’s because, as the National Institute of Health (NIH) points out, genetic males (XY) on average, are anywhere from 10% to 30% bigger, faster and stronger than their female (XX) counterparts.

Biological sex is a primary determinant of athletic performance because of fundamental sex differences in anatomy and physiology dictated by sex chromosomes and sex hormones. Adult men are typically stronger, more powerful, and faster than women of similar age and training status.

Thus, for athletic events and sports relying on endurance, muscle strength, speed, and power, males typically outperform females by 10%-30% depending on the requirements of the event. These sex differences in performance emerge with the onset of puberty and coincide with the increase in endogenous sex steroid hormones, in particular testosterone in males, which increases 30-fold by adulthood, but remains low in females.

National Library of Medicine – American College of Sports Medicine (NIH.gov)

In other words, Champlin Park just used a genetic advantage at one of the single most important positions to its sport, of the entire athletic world, to cheat their way to a state championship.

High school girls trying to fight back…

That’s why, a couple of weeks ago, a few brave girls teamed up with to launch a lawsuit against the MSHSL, multiple school districts and the state of Minnesota for allowing trans males (XY) to compete in sporting events designated specifically for females (XX).

Not only does it give teams with transgender athletes a significant competitive advantage, but in some sports, it’s downright dangerous. That especially includes softball, where a biological male can hit and throw much harder than what most biological females are used to. Online, the outrage is real.

🚨 BREAKING: “Marissa” Rothenberger, a biological male, just single-handedly led Champlin Park to a 6-0 shutout to win the Minnesota Girls’ State Championship.

Every single Democrat in Minnesota voted to make this insanity possible.

Sickening. pic.twitter.com/ohdgQ42onJ

— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) June 6, 2025

If you have ever played softball at any level, whether it be beer league slow-pitch or high-level fastpitch, you know how dangerous it can be for pitchers and third basemen when hitters connect with hard softballs hit right at them. The state of Minnesota needs to wake up and end this atrocity against sports… and against women.