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‘Frustrating and Disheartening’: 3 Girls, Losing to Biological Males in Track, Announce Lawsuit
The Daily Signal ^ | February 12, 2020 | Fred Lucas

Posted on 02/13/2020 3:59:02 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

When Chelsea Mitchell, ranked as the fastest girl in the 55-meter dash in Connecticut high school track, showed up for a competition last year, she knew it would be a challenge.

Her competitors included two biological males who said they identify as girls.

Mitchell, a senior at Canton High School, had seen the speeds posted by the two. She was aware that other girls had lost to athletes born as boys who identify as girls. But at the time, she says, she “could feel the adrenaline in my blood.”

That adrenaline wasn’t enough, though. Mitchell came in third behind the two biological males.

Ultimately, because of Connecticut’s high school athletics policy on transgender competitors, she lost four girls state championships and two all-New England awards to biological males who identify as females.

“It was definitely frustrating and disheartening to be right there, running for the biggest honors in the state, and to work so hard and try so hard to be the best in the state,” Mitchell told The Daily Signal in an exclusive telephone interview Tuesday.

Mitchell and two other girls from different Connecticut high schools, Alanna Smith and Selina Soule, are suing the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference over the policy that allows biological males to compete as girls with biological females in high school sports.

The suit, filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, claims that the state athletic conference is violating Title IX, the section of federal law designed to protect equal athletic opportunities for women and girls.

Smith is a sophomore at Danbury High School and Soule is a senior at Glastonbury High School whose story has been chronicled by The Daily Signal since last May.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailysignal.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: complaint; connecticut; doe; education; girls; lawsuit; lgbt; pc; search; sports; title9; titleix; trackandfield; transgender; transgirls
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1 posted on 02/13/2020 3:59:02 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: 100American; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

PING!


2 posted on 02/13/2020 4:00:30 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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This is just so wrong....and EVERYONE knows it.


3 posted on 02/13/2020 4:02:19 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Everyone are equal...remember.


4 posted on 02/13/2020 4:02:35 PM PST by blam
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If nothing else, girls and women in sports will put an end to this insanity. I have no idea how this will be resolved, but more power to these girls who are suing.


5 posted on 02/13/2020 4:04:12 PM PST by Watershed
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Talk about a decadent society. When this sort of crap is allowed to put bacon on the table for lawyers, judges, clerks and other assorted good for nothings ....


6 posted on 02/13/2020 4:05:17 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The tide will turn my friends.

The tide will turn.

Dems look goofier now than mondale did in ‘84


7 posted on 02/13/2020 4:07:12 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point finger at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to makne ends meet)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Where are NOW, #MeToo, and the other feminists at on this?


8 posted on 02/13/2020 4:07:50 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Pass the ERA

We are, after all, the same


9 posted on 02/13/2020 4:09:31 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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Never. the era is horrible and its expired and good riddance.


10 posted on 02/13/2020 4:11:07 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It was definitely frustrating and disheartening...”

You’re the talent, get together with the other real girl talent and stage your own competitions excluding the pathetic delusionals.


11 posted on 02/13/2020 4:11:43 PM PST by TalBlack (Damn right I'll "do something" you fat, balding son of a bitc)
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To: Sacajaweau
This is just so wrong....and EVERYONE knows it.

But everyone just smiles through the awards ceremonies as if nothing is awry. Even the girls who got beat. No one dares say anything.

Talk about "The Emperor's New Clothes" coming to life.

12 posted on 02/13/2020 4:11:43 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The girls could be losing college scholarships because of these trannies. Very sad.


13 posted on 02/13/2020 4:12:16 PM PST by Atlantan
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To: Sacajaweau

This is just so wrong....and EVERYONE knows it.

You know honestly I don’t know. I mean girls want to play on boys football teams, boys baseball teams, boys soccer. And thats right! Explain why when its in reverse and girls get a taste of diversity, its wrong? They want to be treated equally with males. Hows it taste?


14 posted on 02/13/2020 4:12:53 PM PST by Bommer (I am a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
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15 posted on 02/13/2020 4:13:27 PM PST by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: blam

The is a solution no one will like.

Open (no gender asked)

Don’t ask (gender won’t be verified)

Girls (women’s) Women’s only...BFQ bona fide qualification

Of course if this is not possible because the questions are hard, repeal title ix, the violence against women act and stop with the equal rights amendment, because we won’t KNOW what they mean.

DK


16 posted on 02/13/2020 4:14:05 PM PST by Dark Knight
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Because 18 other states have similar policies for high school athletics, the three girls’ case in Connecticut could set a national precedent,

18 states!! God Almighty.

My youngest daughter is in track and field. Thank God we haven't encountered this crap yet.

17 posted on 02/13/2020 4:14:18 PM PST by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Chelsea Mitchell... Maybe she should join the boy scouts.. That’ll show’um..


18 posted on 02/13/2020 4:14:26 PM PST by unread (A REPUBLIC..! if you can keep it....)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Still liking the democrats you elect there Connecticut?


19 posted on 02/13/2020 4:15:03 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo2)
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>>>girls want to play on boys football teams, boys baseball teams, boys soccer. And thats right!

Do the girls identify as boys?


20 posted on 02/13/2020 4:19:03 PM PST by existentially_kuffer
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