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A Texas dad whose teen cheerleader daughter was allegedly attacked by a transgender teammate for supposedly calling her 'a man with a penis' says his daughter is '100 per cent supportive' of LGBT rights.
Averie Chanel Medlock, 25, was kicked off 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.
In a series of Facebook posts, Medlock has dismissed claims she 'choked out' Karleigh and insisted 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 leapt 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.
Texas cheerleader Karleigh Jones, 17, (pictured) was allegedly attacked by her older, transgender teammate Averie Chanel Medlock, 25, who claimed she made transphobic references to her body parts and called her a 'guy who should not be on the team'
Medlock (pictured) was booted off cheer camp at Ranger College in Texas and slapped with a misdemeanor citation for assault over a locker room dust up with her 17-year-old teammate
Jones's father, Mike Jones (pictured with his wife) has come to his daughter's defense, insisting she is '100 per cent supportive' of the trans community and that the video posted of the altercation had been edited
'She is not doing well. She blames herself. She should have just locked the door, let it blow over and just come home,' Jones, a father of three, told DailyMail.com.
'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 per cent supportive of the trans community. I have a gay son, so don't tell me I'm f***ing homophobic,' he added.
Jones, 47, has accused Medlock of 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.'
'Watch your back,' Medlock warns one girl in the clip obtained by KTAB News. 'B***h, see me at camp tomorrow that's all I got to say,' she tells another.
Karleigh's dad's account of the incident was far different to Medlock's, claiming he was called by his terrified daughter at 1am after she barricaded herself behind a door to hide from Medlock, who had allegedly choked her out
Medlock insisted the altercation was instigated by Karleigh and that she was being targeted because of her gender
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'
This is a subtitled grab from a video shot by Medlock after the choking incident, which saw her confront Karleigh and her friends from the other side of a door
'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.com.
'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 claims there is more to the story than what Medlock posted in the four-minute Instagram photo and he is requesting security footage to show the extent of the incident
Jones claimed this is only a peak of what really happened and that Medlock cut out the physical attack from the video.
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