Posted on 12/22/2022 3:31:08 PM PST by simpson96
A federal appeals court on Friday dismissed a challenge to Connecticut’s policy of allowing transgender girls to compete in girls high school sports, rejecting arguments by four cisgender runners who said they were unfairly forced to race against transgender athletes.
A three-judge panel at the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City ruled in favor of the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC), the state’s governing body of high school sports, and several local school districts sued by the cisgender girls and their families.
The court found the lawsuit to be moot and ruled the girls who brought the suit lacked standing to sue — in part because their claims were speculative that they were deprived of wins, state titles and athletic scholarship opportunities. The court also noted how the cisgender girls won races where a transgender athlete competed.
“All four Plaintiffs regularly competed at state track championships as high school athletes, where Plaintiffs had the opportunity to compete for state titles in different events,” the decision said. “And, on numerous occasions, Plaintiffs were indeed ‘champions,’ finishing first in various events, even sometimes when competing against (transgender athletes).”
The CIAC argued its policy is designed to comply with a state law that requires all high school students be treated according to their gender identity. It also said the policy is in accordance with Title IX, the federal law that allows girls equal educational opportunities, including in athletics.
(Excerpt) Read more at ctmirror.org ...
Its getting pretty hard to deny that this country no longer has a functioning system of justice.
Laws are made to protect the innocent. This transgender cr** protects the wrong person.
How about…..no one takes the field, court, pool, and just give everyone a trophy? Jesus, I HATE what we’re becoming. Why is it allowed that the minority dictate to the majority? And……HOW do we stop it? I don’t think we can.
WTH is “cisgender”?????
The homo lobby has taken over the DOJ.
They should all quit then. Let the trannies compete against each other.
Sounds good, unless you’re working on a college athletic scholarship.
“Cisgender”? Oh they mean actual women not just dudes with amputated penises and mental illnesses.
Note to "The CT Mirror": they ain't girls.
The only way this nonsense is going to stop is if the real women, the biological women, quit cooperating. Refuse to participate. Leave it for the freaks.
Every day, liberal men who claim to be women are forcing real women further to the back of the bus. The greatest misogynists are liberal trans “women”.
Probably they are but they’ll run into the same situation in college.
No surprise. The left owns the judges and courts.
The only way to stop this nonsense is for the REAL women to refuse to participate in any event that has lopadicmtomy participants. If the National Collegiate Asshole Abomination sanctions them. parents need to go 2nd amendment on them. Enough of this BULLSHIT
Why don’t they just say girl or boy???
They need to be realistic...
It’s either XX chromosomes or XY chromosomes...
It doesn’t matter what someone “thinks” they are...
Normal.
It’s pseudo-clever language from the prefixes “cis” and “trans”, meaning same side and opposite side.
I learned about it in high school chemistry where you had, for example, a molecule shaped like a rectangle, with a particular element either on adjacent corners (cis), or opposite corners (trans), which was called cis-trans isomerism. One configuration had a stronger bond than the other.
At the same time they had two fake countries inside South African called “Transkei” and “Ciskei”, which I assumed meant they were on opposite sides of something (turns out it’s the Kei river). Other than that, the terms were not used in any other context I’m aware of.
Moot?
No standing?
WTF...
That is a pretty vague claim by the court...
““All four Plaintiffs regularly competed at state track championships as high school athletes, where Plaintiffs had the opportunity to compete for state titles in different events,” the decision said. “And, on numerous occasions, Plaintiffs were indeed ‘champions,’ finishing first in various events, even sometimes when competing against (transgender athletes).”
The issue was not if they had competed. Geez. Idiots
Numerous occasions they were champions? Okay.
But only ‘sometimes’ when competing against men.
Geez.
And ‘first’ is not the only option. The other places matter too.
Moot because they already graduated?
“All the athletes have since graduated from high school.”
That has no bearing on the case.
The issue is Title 9 - and the destruction of women’s sports by allowing men to participate.
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