In Connecticut, High School student and track star Chelsea Mitchell and a few of her teammates filed a lawsuit to block biological males from participating in female sports. A judge dismissed the lawsuit, but the athletes plan to try again.
Mitchell wrote about her experience in USA Today, which took a beating for giving her a voice.
Mitchell titled her piece, “I was the fastest girl in Connecticut. But transgender athletes made it an unfair fight.”
The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) allows biological males who identify as females to participate in female sports. As a result, two males began running on the female track team in 2017.
Mitchell committed the ultimate sin. She brought up biology:
In the 2017, 2018, and 2019 seasons alone, these males took 15 women’s state track championship titles (titles held in 2016 by nine different girls) and more than 85 opportunities to participate in higher level competitions that belonged to female track athletes.That’s because males have massive physical advantages. Their bodies are simply bigger and stronger on average than female bodies. It’s obvious to every single girl on the track.
Mitchell brought up another obvious problem: college scouts.
“It robs girls out of the chance to race in front of college scouts who show up for elite metes, and to compete for the scholarships and opportunities that come with college recruitment,” wrote Mitchell.
The athlete continued: “I’ll never know how my own college recruitment was impacted by losing those four state championship titles to a male. When colleges looked at my record, they didn’t see the fastest girl in Connecticut. They saw a second- or third-place runner.”
A male runner bumped co-plaintiff Selina Soule “from qualifying for the state championship 55-meter final and an opportunity to qualify for the New England championship” in 2019.
Alanna Smith, another co-plaintiff, got third place in the 200-meter at the New England Regional Championships. A male runner came in second.
Mitchell and the other athletes plan to appeal the dismissal of their lawsuit to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit.
Indeed, Mitchell did not lose every single race. So obviously, she shouldn’t complain, right?
That’s what the left says on Twitter.
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