Adaleia Cross, a former high school athlete from West Virginia, has broken her silence following the Supreme Court's recent ruling on women's sports. Cross alleges she was sexually harassed by a transgender athlete while both were students at Bridgeport Middle School.

The Supreme Court's decision on June 30 affirmed that schools can base athletic eligibility for women's and girls' sports on biological sex, reversing rulings against West Virginia and Idaho. For Cross, the ruling signifies a personal victory and a source of peace.

"I definitely have a sense of peace about all of it," Cross told Fox News Digital. "Although I had to go through all of that, and it doesn’t make up for what I had to go through, I know that other girls can be protected, like my sister and my friends who are still on the team."

Cross detailed alleged incidents in the girls' locker room during the 2022-2023 school year, when she was in eighth grade and the transgender athlete was in seventh. She stated that the transgender athlete made sexually explicit comments, which caused discomfort among other girls, leading some to change in bathroom stalls.

"A lot of girls, after [the athlete] came into our locker room, started going to the bathroom. They started changing in stalls, which was not really normal," Cross said. "Girls were just uncomfortable. They didn’t want to be around [the athlete]."

Her mother, Abby Cross, previously alleged that the transgender athlete said things like "s--- my d---" and "I’m going to stick my d--- in your p---- and also in your a--" to Adaleia and other girls.

Cross stated that other teams began canceling track meets to avoid the situation. "Girls deserve to have that space. And it’s just been taken away," she added.

According to Cross, when her family reported the alleged harassment to the school, they received no formal response regarding an investigation's outcome. "They told me they would do a full investigation into what I told them. And then, all of a sudden, it was like nothing else was happening, it was done, and it seemed like they thought nothing of it because they didn't talk to us about it at all," Cross recalled.

The ACLU, representing the transgender athlete, previously denied the allegations, stating that the school district found them unsubstantiated. However, the Cross family's attorneys at Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) responded, asserting that Cross had sworn under oath about the events and that the situation led her to step away from her sport.

Despite the Supreme Court victory, Cross noted the personal cost, including losing friends and facing ostracization from peers. She also recounted an incident where a homeroom teacher allegedly told her she was seen as "less of a person" for her stance.

"My homeroom teacher, who I’d had for two years, told me that she sees me as less of a person. That was really scary for me," Cross said. "I didn’t know what to say. I just kind of left."

Cross also expressed frustration over witnessing the transgender athlete win the girls' state championship in shot put shortly before the Supreme Court ruling. "All of my friends that have been working to be at the top for years, they had the first place spot taken from them," she said.

Cross, who is now a high school senior, does not plan to return to competitive sports due to the time elapsed since her last participation. "After not participating for two years, I won't be anywhere near with comparing with the other girls because of the training they have had versus what I haven't had."

Reflecting on her decision to speak out, Cross cited a Bible verse, Esther 4:14, "Perhaps you were created for such a time as this," as a source of conviction. She believes the national conversation often overlooks the experiences of biological women and girls.

"I think that the media likes to focus heavily on how the transgender athletes feel about the situations happening. What they should be focusing on is how the biological women are being affected," Cross stated. "This is their spaces, and it is being taken from them."

Cross urged the public to look beyond media narratives and examine the facts of such cases. "I urge people to think for themselves. Actually look into the facts of the cases, and to what’s actually happened to countless girls, and to not let the media tell them what to think."