On April 19, US Olympic Middle Distance Runner Nikki Hiltz released a Tiktok video that included recordings of an interview with Women’s Marathon Runner Natalie Daniels. The position came only two days before Daniels had to compete in the Boston Marathon, and only six months after she gave birth to her first child.

Hiltz’s Tiktok opened with a clip of Daniels who shared how she considered not competing in marathon because biologically male trans athletes would compete in the field of women. The clip was originally from a promotional interview with the activist sports clothing brand XX-Xy Athletics.

In the same post on the popular social media platform, Hiltz called Daniels to drop because of her concerns about Trans -Inclusion while disagreing with the new mother’s attitude towards it.

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For Hiltz, the post was in line with the athlete’s regular Tiktok content, which often shows the Olympic promotion of pro-trans-gender overwriting and argued against resistance to trans-inclusion in sports. Hiltz is a biologically female athlete competing in the women’s category while identifying himself as transking and non-binary.

Shortly after Hiltz’s Tiktok Post went live, the reaction of it was aimed at Daniels, who said many of Hiltz’s supporters and fans began sending her surprising messages.

“I didn’t think there would be this rabid cruelty,” Daniels Pakinomist told Digital about the answer she received from the interview. “People tried to find us when we were in Boston.”

Daniels claims a person told her “I live in Boston and if I see you on the street I will chase you down. ‘”

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Marathon Runner Natalie Daniels runs under the Boston Marathon on April 21, 2025. (With permission from Natalie Daniels)

The new mother said the worst alleged comment she saw was from someone who said, ” I hope your son comes out as a trans and never speaks to you again. ” Her son was only six months old at the time.

Daniels said she ultimately takes responsibility for the messages directed at her and her family. Still, she quoted Hiltz’s Tiktok for contributing to setbacks.

“[Hiltz] Also have freedom of speech. So [Hiltz’s] Opinion is as valid to be shared as mine is, “said Daniels.” I think [Hiltz] Encouraged a pile-on that really got out of hand I think very quickly… I think that the fact [Hiltz] Didn’t do anything about it is not surprising.

“I think I am ultimately responsible for what I said. And I know that what I said was said by love and a desire to continue to support and encourage women and women’s sports.”

It still did not do the experience for Daniels.

“The very hateful messages were disturbing. There were a few times when I just wanted to be, I don’t want to cry, but a few times I would just start crying,” she said. “And I want to tell my husband, ‘I’m sorry, it’s like a lot, it’s a lot to tackle, having people to be like’ you are this evil hateful bigot, ‘or’ you’re stupid. ‘”

Runners cross the starting line of the 125th Boston Marathon in Hopkinton, fair. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm, File)

“Instead of having this very rational commitment, they went directly to threats and violence.”

Pakinomist Digital reached out to Hiltz’s talent agency, Hawi Management, for a response.

When the day of the Boston Marathon came, April 21, Daniels was prepared for potential attacks and Heckling against her on the field after receiving messages warning her about it, she claims. But instead, she heard only ever roaring song of support, she claims. She even had one of her best finishes and reached the finish line in 2:50:04 at 110.

Love continued on social media as she saw an outflow of praise and respect that eventually overshadowed the support she got to stand up for women’s sports and perform in the XX-XY AthleticS interview to begin with.

For Daniels, it helped validate a decision that she made partly because of the experience of becoming a new mother. Daniels said during her pregnancy included a trip to an obstetrician a study that assumed the only reason she was pregnant was due to failed birth control and not her own intentions.

“In society, I just want this reductive definition of what it means to be a woman and what it means to be a woman is basically a thing and it’s access to abortion. And in our culture, it just said as if it’s all of us to break,” said Daniels, a native in Virginia. She added that the study and the growing cultural stigma of pregnancy that was fed right into her passion to protect female athletes from trans cluttering.

“I know these things can be different things, but it all binds to this dehumanization of women. For me, it feels like in this culture, in this political climate, women are this incredible nebulous, failing things,” she added.

The decision received Daniel’s praise and support during marathon and online, but not from her race club, Light Horse Track Club in Washington, DC, which she claims was more in line with Hiltz than her.

Daniels said she was confronted with the decision to appear in the XX-XY Athleticics interview of the club’s leadership.

Runners Natalie Daniels, Left and Nikki Hiltz. (With permission from Natalie Daniels/Getty Images)

Daniels said she offered to make a statement that clarified that her attitude was not intended to attack transgender people for their identity, but to stand up for women as herself. But that wouldn’t be enough, she said.

She claims they offered to let her continue to run for the club if she would send out an apology and publicly acknowledge the ability of a biological man to become a woman she refused to do.

Daniels claims she was told by the club that in order to reassure her directors, she had to share a statement on social media reading, “‘I now understand that a person can take hormones and surgery and they can become a woman.'”

“I was like, ‘I don’t want to do it. I can’t …’ it goes completely against my Christian values,” she said. “It goes completely against what I know about how God works.”

Daniels said she then found out about her removal from the team via a text message and e email from the board while she was sitting on her patio.

So now she starts her own race club with XX-XY athletics and founder Jennifer Sey.

And while she still adapts to the regular online hatred and even occasionally heckle from spectators at competitions, Daniels said she is looking forward to raising her family and embracing her new role in the movement to keep trans athletes out of women’s sports.

Light Horse Track Club did not immediately respond to Pakinomist Digital’s request for comment.