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‘Fastest girl in Connecticut’ Chelsea Mitchell suing state after losing to trans athletes
New York Post ^ | May 31, 2023 | Rikki Schlott

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.”

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By way of background, a three judge panel for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unanimously ruled on December 16, 2022, that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue because the alleged injuries were speculative. Here is a link to the court's opinion: https://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/b4c8a9b4-8891-4553-bfd7-98a6031aa261/1/doc/21-1365_opn.pdf#xml=https://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/b4c8a9b4-8891-4553-bfd7-98a6031aa261/1/hilite/

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.

1 posted on 06/01/2023 5:32:26 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Labyrinthos

Good these girls are finally challenging this absurdity.

But they never should have left the starting line with a man in the race.


2 posted on 06/01/2023 5:35:56 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese proverb)
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To: Labyrinthos

This needs to go to SCOTUS for a ruling.


3 posted on 06/01/2023 5:37:01 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The Democrat Party - Dumbing Down America Since 1965.)
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To: Labyrinthos
What a real girl looks like.


4 posted on 06/01/2023 5:40:11 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so stupid people won’t be offended)
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To: Labyrinthos

The state will have to decide if legally, a man can be recognized as a woman.


5 posted on 06/01/2023 5:43:37 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Labyrinthos

Chelsea, choose your words wisely since so many get twisted these days. Fair, is variable. Truth is not.


6 posted on 06/01/2023 5:43:54 AM PDT by b4me
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To: EQAndyBuzz

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.


7 posted on 06/01/2023 5:44:20 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: EQAndyBuzz

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


8 posted on 06/01/2023 5:44:38 AM PDT by Varda
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To: Labyrinthos

“This is about biology.”


Well, she’ll never qualify as a Supreme Court justice!


9 posted on 06/01/2023 5:51:33 AM PDT by Deepeasttx ( Sensitivity/diversity training, along with DEI are all un-walled reeducation camps....for now.)
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To: ConservativeWarrior

they need to sue the state, the athletic association, the democratic party and anyone else responsible for BILLIONS!


10 posted on 06/01/2023 5:55:39 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Labyrinthos

they are a direct victim, standing is easy in this case


11 posted on 06/01/2023 5:56:31 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Varda

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.


12 posted on 06/01/2023 5:58:50 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: PapaBear3625

Does she have pointy ears under that long hair?
She looks like a woodland elf to me.


13 posted on 06/01/2023 6:00:09 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Labyrinthos

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.


14 posted on 06/01/2023 6:03:48 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: Labyrinthos

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.


15 posted on 06/01/2023 6:29:37 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (What did Socialists use before Candles?..... Electricity)
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To: muir_redwoods

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.”

https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-when-transgender-fighter-fallon-fox-broke-opponent-s-skull-mma-fight


16 posted on 06/01/2023 6:32:54 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (What did Socialists use before Candles?..... Electricity)
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Women’s sports have been ruined.

Where are the parents? Specifically the White suburban mom parents? sheesh, another fail from the wsm's.

17 posted on 06/01/2023 6:33:21 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

It’s Connecticut where wokeism rules over everything , even the well being of your own children.


18 posted on 06/01/2023 6:41:07 AM PDT by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: Labyrinthos

Trannies should race against boys.


19 posted on 06/01/2023 6:46:59 AM PDT by bray (Dr Fauxi killed millions)
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To: ConservativeWarrior
I'm guessing they left the starting line thinking they could beat him.
They've been taught they can do anything men can do and better.

Next they will think they are good enough to compete in men's sports...oh wait.



20 posted on 06/01/2023 6:49:43 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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