‘Don’t tell me I’m f*****g homophobic’: Karleigh Jones’ dad Mike Jones reminds Averie Medlock he has a GAY son
A 25-year-old trans cheerleader named Averie Chanel Medlock was kicked out of the cheer camp at Ranger College and slapped with a misdemeanor citation for assault over the locker room dust-up with 17-year-old Karleigh Jones. Karleigh allegedly called Medlock a 'man with a penis' which created quite a stir among the LGBTQ community. However, the father of the 17-year-old cheerleader, Mike Jones, spoke out in her defense and said "My daughter is 100 percent supportive of the trans community," according to the Daily Mail.
Medlock has dismissed claims she "choked out" Karleigh in a series of Facebook posts and claimed her younger teammate made transphobic references to her body parts and called her a "guy who should not be on the team." But Karleigh's dad has leaped to his daughter's defense, predicting that authorities at the community college in Ranger, Texas will clear her of any suggestion of transphobia in the July 21 clash.
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Mike Jones, who is a father of three children spoke to the same news outlet where he said, "She is not doing well. She blames herself. She should have just locked the door, let it blow over, and just come home." He continued, "I don't want to say too much at this time because I don't want to convolute the investigations that are still ongoing. But when the truth comes out the rest of the nation is going to be surprised." "My daughter is 100 percent supportive of the trans community. I have a gay son, so don't tell me I'm f***ing homophobic," he added.
The 47-year-old father has blamed Medlock for posting an 'edited' four-minute clip of the clash on social media that leaves out her threatening remarks. "Can we get the full video not the edited version that fit your narrative!" he wrote in a July 26 heated Facebook post, adding "As we wait for these investigations to get over, I just wonder when this person will own up to their actions! And stop trying to ruin our lives!"
In Medlock's footage, she can be overheard knocking on the locker room door and asking to come in to apologize. Some of the girls respond by yelling "you're a man, you have a penis." Jones, however, points to a different clip filmed from behind the locked door, in which the trans athlete is heard challenging teammates to "come outside and man up." "Her video cuts off because it's an edited version. The other one keeps going and she steadily is calling them out and says, "come out and man up," Jones told DailyMail. "What type of woman would do that? You tell me? There are other parents who have voiced what truly transpired there. They have gone way further than I have. I don't want to comment any further, I'm done."
The video shows Medlock and her posse hastily confronting a group of girls hiding behind a closed door for the duration of the recording. Jones claimed this is only a peek of what really happened and that Medlock cut out the physical attack from the video. "After the title IX investigation, I'm sure all the other videos will be released, which will also show that you posted in edited version to show your narrative," he wrote on Facebook.
"I need to say something," Medlock can be heard saying in the video as she knocked on a door. "Why can't I say it in front of y'all? What are you afraid of?" Medlock posted the video of the incident along with the caption "This is video evidence that I did not assault her... Her father is going around saying that I choked her out and made her pass out clearly I couldn't even get into the room to even touch her." Jones noted that Medlock previously said she was just playing with his daughter -therefore admitting to being physical.
Medlock received a criminal assault by physical contact citation last week after she allegedly attacked Karleigh. Karleigh and other teammates say they locked themselves in a locker room to hide from Medlock, who says she was mocked for her gender and was called a 'man with a penis.' Medlock was escorted from the campus after police arrived with Karleigh's father, Mike Jones. "I have to ask when a person like this cries wolf whether it be race, gender, sexual assault or anybody that truly needs their voice heard where does that leave them!"
"Well guys I'm officially retired as a cheerleader as of last night at 5:30 AM," Medlock wrote in a Facebook post, which she shared last week, "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". "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's post has since been deleted.