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High-school athlete Chelsea Mitchell, who competes within the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference. | (Courtesy of Alliance Defending Freedom) A major American newspaper has faced criticism for retroactively editing an op-ed it published because the author used the word "male" to describe boys who identify as female, which the publication deemed offensive. The op-ed piece, published by USA Today, was written by Chelsea Mitchell, a track athlete from Connecticut who is among the plain...

A major American newspaper has faced criticism for retroactively editing an op-ed it published because the author used the word "male" to describe boys who identify as female, which the publication deemed offensive.

For former Connecticut track star Chelsea Mitchell, competing against transgender athletes — biological males — was “devastating.” Mitchell opened up about her past experience in an editorial published Sunday in USA Today. She explained why she and three other athletes filed a lawsuit last year against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference over the state’s decision to allow transgender athletes to compete on the teams that correlate with their determined sex and gend...

Female athletes who lost to trans-identified males fight for fair playing field Posted on Linnea Saltz wants to be a lobbyist. Haley Tanne intends to pursue a career as a physician’s assistant. Chelsea Mitchell plans to obtain a degree in marketing. While all three women have different career aspirations, they all have one common experience: losing to biological males who identify as females in female track competitions. Athletics have played an essential role in all three women’s lives, ...

U.S. District Court Judge Robert Chatigny dismissed a case that attempted to prevent transgender athletes from competing in girls high school sports in Connecticut on April 25.  The case was made in order to stop transgender athletes from competing in girls high school sports due to the concern that transgender females possessed unfair biolocal advantages compared to their non-transgender peers, having been born biologically male.  “ Sometimes I think you have to walk in the other person’...

Can a judge who orders plaintiffs’ counsel to call biological boys “females”—even though the very nature of the Title IX lawsuit involves questions of males’ competitive advantage in scholastic sports—render an impartial ruling on defendants’ motion to dismiss the suit? It would seem the answer is “no.”  

Selina Soule | Alliance Defending Freedom A federal judge has tossed out a high-profile lawsuit filed on behalf of four female athletes suing to stop a Connecticut high school athletics association policy allowing biological males who identify as females to compete in girls’ sports at the K-12 level.  Lawyers representing the athletes plan to appeal the ruling. Judge Robert Chatigny, a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, issued a ruling Sunday de...

A federal judge has tossed out a high-profile lawsuit filed on behalf of four female athletes suing to stop a Connecticut high school athletics association policy allowing biological males who identify as females to compete in girls’ sports at the K-12 level. 

Track athletes – Photo: Mark Lee, via Unsplash. On Sunday, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging Connecticut’s policy allowing transgender high school athletes to compete in sports based on their gender identity, which has served as the impetus for dozens of states to consider legislation banning transgender females from competing in women’s sports. In a ruling released on Sunday, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Chatigny dismissed the lawsuit on procedural grounds, noting that ...

By Sarah Parshall Perry | April 27, 2021 | 5:28pm EDT A transgender flag is brandished at a protest. (Photo credit: ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images) Can a judge who orders plaintiffs’ counsel to call biological boys “females”—even though the very nature of the Title IX lawsuit involves questions of males’ competitive advantage in scholastic sports—render an impartial ruling on defendants’ motion to dismiss the suit? It would seem the answer i...