Figure skating Olympian Alysa Liu’s high school brother is reportedly a transgender-identifying individual invading girls’ sports teams. The publication Reduxx revealed earlier this week that Joshua “Jaylin” Liu has repeatedly outperformed girls on track and field, ultimate frisbee, and basketball teams between new Albany High School and El Cerrito High School in California.

According to Reduxx, Joshua is ranked best “female” runner on the girls’ track team at Albany High School in California in the 200- and 400-meter race and the top “female” runner in the quarter mile for the Tri-County Athletic League. At the Ultimate High School National Invite for frisbee, Liu was applauded for being “extremely dominant” during the competition. 

Reduxx also reported that Joshua “took eight separate first-places spots at seasonal meets and races in 2025. He seized a silver medal at the NCS Bayshore Championship in the 400-meter race, and a gold in the 2025 Tri-County Athletic League Frosh-Soph Championship 200-meter race.”

“The Liu family represents two opposing forces: the pinnacle of excellence in female sports and, at the same time, a profound threat to the integrity of those sports,” Marshi Smith of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports told Reduxx. “Alysa’s achievements are the result of years of dedication and hard work beginning in childhood. By contrast, her brother’s recent personal ambitions threaten to undermine the same developmental pathways that so many girls depend on to blaze their own trails to greatness.”

Alysa Liu won national attention earlier this year after taking home the gold at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy for Team USA. 

Joshua, Alysa, and their three siblings were all born via a surrogate to their biological father, Arthur Liu. Arthur’s ex-wife of a brief period, Qing Xin Yan, also known as Mary, was the legal guardian for the children despite having no biological relation. Reduxx reported that Yan is a “a former high-ranking member of the Zhong Gong, a ‘spiritual movement’ which is designated as a cult in China,” reported Reduxx.

Despite having a large platform, Liu has never commented on her brother’s identity. 

“Rules allowing boys into girls’ sports often put female athletes who may have male family members, like Alysa, in an impossible position where their loyalties are torn and they are forced to choose between supporting female athletes and fairness in athletics or a beloved family member who they love,” a spokesperson from the organization HeCheated noted. “Firm rules protecting the female category puts the responsibility of saying no to these boys on athletic officials rather than young women and girls.”

However, in the past, other Olympians such as Bruce Jenner, who also identifies as transgender, has supported the state bans of transgender-identifying athletes participating in women’s sports. “Trans women are competing against women, taking valuable opportunities for the long protected class under Title IX and causing physical harm,” Jenner remarked in 2024.

“Alysa Liu’s story is one of grit, discipline, and determination — the story of an athlete who pursued excellence through years of sacrifice and hard work. That is the spirit of sport. Her brother’s story is fundamentally different,” Macy Charles, a legislative strategist at Concerned Women for America, told The Washington Stand. “It places identity and entitlement ahead of fairness and equal competition. When governing bodies allow men to compete in women’s sports, they send a devastating message to female athletes like Alysa: her training, talent, and perseverance are subjected to the physical advantages of men.”

This comes on the heels of the Supreme Court ruling last month in a 6-3 decision that states have the power to ban transgender-identifying athletes from women’s and girls’ sports teams.

“Sports leaders and elected officials have a duty to protect female athletic opportunities rather than indulge the desires of boys at the expense of girls,” Smith added. “Despite the recent Supreme Court ruling, too many officials remain committed to policies that threaten to destroy the athletic dreams of the next generation of girls. This injustice must end nationwide.”

Charles concluded by emphasizing that men and women’s sports are distinct because biological reality matters. “Female athletes deserve rules that protect fairness, safety, and equal opportunity, not policies that require them to sacrifice those principles in the name of inclusion.”