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.
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This would not be happening without the votes of women.
Fact.
Excuse my schadenfreude but the ‘boys’ were already screwed over by title IX.
Could they just test for level of testosterone and only those under a certain level can compete?
The way I see it ... if women want to be treated equally, then here's their chance. Let them compete against men on equal grounds.
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.
Nobody's denying them "equal athletic opportunities." If they're not good enough to win against men, then that's not illegal. If women can serve in combat with men, then surely they can beat them in the 55-meter dash.
I can’t remember how many times I have heard “girls can do anything boys can do” and many of them actually believe it.
Yeah but the electorate is a LOT dumber than in 1984.
You get what you vote for...
Most women support LGBT rights and Democrats. These girls suing will probably grow up and vote for Democrats.
Yet here we are. 40 years hence I’m sure AOC will seem tame.
Now THAT’S scary
Yeah the dreams of winning 49 states are gone.
I think mid 40s is still doable.
Good God what would that even look like?
I’ve read of nothing like what they want since the Roman Empire under Caligula.
And at least he started out normal. I think.
Zactly
Women don’t really understand what they are giving up if ERA is passed.
They will instantly lose their Title IX protections
Bathrooms will become Co-ed
and so forth...
Females started this and I guess they need to finish it.
Females are on female teams and males are on male teams.
I disagree. Courts will NOT take a stand on whether a freak is a man or woman. Instead real girls will just stop doing sports. There will be mens teams and freaks teams.
So was girls wrestling on the boys team. Or playing football.
Like it or not, there is no legal or cultural reason to stop this.
When you spend a generation ripping up the fences, you shouldn’t complain when your garden gets trampled.
He was raped, repeatably, by his uncle the Roman Emperor.
When he was emperor, he was buggered by his boyfriend in a parade through Rome, and then “married” him.
Caligula was broken from the beginning. All of the Julio Claudians were.
C’mon Republicans! Fight the insanity! FIGHT to ensure young women can compete!!!
Bring on the suits. Work every damned state that has lost its way. Girls should not pay the price of indulging the fantasies of disturbed males.
Since the teams were called boys teams then assuming they are either literate or close enough to literate as to understand word definitions when explained that is obviously a resounding yes.
Could they just test for level of testosterone and only those under a certain level can compete?
Well that’s an alternative lifestyle.
Good grief.
Thanks.
Still liking the democrats you elect there Connecticut?
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