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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 plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the state's athletic association over its policy of allowing boys who ide...

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 gender identity. She expressed how crushing it was to lose “four women’s state championship titles, ...

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, and they take a great deal of pride in their accomplishments throughout high school and college. H...

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’s shoes. It was a very delicate situation, and there’s a case to be made for both sides. But I jus...