Posted on 06/01/2023 5:32:26 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
“At the end of the day, this is just about fairness,” Chelsea Mitchell told The Post. “This is about biology.”
The 20-year-old is fighting for the integrity of women’s sports after she lost more than 20 races over the course of her high school career — thanks to a Connecticut policy that allows transgender athletes to compete in girls sports.
Now, Mitchell, who has declared herself “the fastest girl in Connecticut,” is challenging her state’s policy in court.
Mitchell is teaming up with fellow Connecticut residents Selina Soule, 20, Ashley Nicoletti, 19, and Alanna Smith, 19, who ran high school track in the state at the same time she did.
The four are suing the Connecticut Association of Schools and the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, seeking to overturn a policy which allows transgender athletes to compete in accordance with their gender identity rather than their biological sex...
In their filing with the Second Circuit, the athletes request that the court order their athletic records be updated to reflect the titles and rankings they would have earned had trans athletes not been competing against them. The filing argues that “courts routinely recognize student athletes’ ongoing interest in vindicating the records they’ve earned.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Two of the three judges are Obama appointees and one is a Biden appointee.
In an extremely rare exercise of judicial discretion, the court has agreed to rehear the case "en banc," which means that a majority of the 13 active circuit court judges have likely concluded that the "proceeding involves a question of exceptional importance." (FRAP 35) I emphasize that the issue before the court is not whether the CT transgender policy violates Title IX, but whether the plaintiffs have standing to sue. Unfortunately, six of the thirteen judges that will decide the case are Biden appointees and one is an Obama appointee, and therefore, the six Trump appointees and one Bush appointee will have to convince one of the liberals to side with the conservatives. While this is unlikely, I am encouraged by the fact that at least seven of the judges -- and presumably, at least one liberal -- voted to hear the case en banc in the first place.
Good these girls are finally challenging this absurdity.
But they never should have left the starting line with a man in the race.
This needs to go to SCOTUS for a ruling.
The state will have to decide if legally, a man can be recognized as a woman.
Chelsea, choose your words wisely since so many get twisted these days. Fair, is variable. Truth is not.
It very well may. The problem is that the issue before the court is not the merits of the claim, but standing. Thus, even if the plaintiffs prevail at the 2nd Circuit or SCOTUS, the case will get remanded to the district court for a trial and decision on the merits, which will start the lengthy appeals process anew.
The USSC has already ruled.
“Justice Samuel Alito called one of the most “brazen abuse[s]” of the Supreme Court’s authority, a six-member majority of the court led by Justice Neil Gorsuch has rewritten Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include sexual orientation and gender identity in the definition of “sex.” https://www.heritage.org/courts/commentary/gorsuch-helps-transform-the-supreme-court-the-supreme-legislature-lgbt-rights
“This is about biology.”
Well, she’ll never qualify as a Supreme Court justice!
they need to sue the state, the athletic association, the democratic party and anyone else responsible for BILLIONS!
they are a direct victim, standing is easy in this case
Understood, but this case arises under Title IX, not Title VII. Title IX was enacted to give females equal educational opportunities, including interscholastic and intercollegiate sports.
Does she have pointy ears under that long hair?
She looks like a woodland elf to me.
Who wants to see a middling heavyweight get in the ring with a great featherweight? That’s not a contest. That’s not a match. That’s a brutal beating.
Girls/women’s sports has come a long way in the last forty years and these diseased freaks are ruining it.
The only way to stop this is for girls forced to compete against men to completely boycott their sports. Unfortunately it has come to this.
Let Lia Thomas be the only one swimming. Let the trans runner run by himself. Let the public sit in the stands and watch a single trans athlete compete all by himself.
Women’s sports have been ruined.
Yes, and that’s what happened in MMA when a male was allowed into the female competition.
The ref had to stop the match b/c the tranny was beating the hell out of his female contestant.
“The fight lasted just over two minutes after the referee was forced to halt the contest.
Brents received seven staples to her head, and also suffered a concussion. She was overpowered by Fox to an extent that even the orbital bone inside her skull was fractured.”
Where are the parents? Specifically the White suburban mom parents? sheesh, another fail from the wsm's.
It’s Connecticut where wokeism rules over everything , even the well being of your own children.
Trannies should race against boys.
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