Female runners fight back
The families of three Connecticut high school girls filed a federal lawsuit this week attempting to block transgendered athletes in the state from participating in girls sports.
Runners Selina Soule of Glastonbury High School, Alanna Smith of Danbury High School, and Chelsea Mitchell of Canton High School complained that competing against male athletes who identify as female has deprived them of scholarship opportunities and track titles.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday at the U.S. District Court of Connecticut, claims that the state’s high school athletic governing body is violating Title IX, the federal law designed to ensure equal opportunities for women and girls in education and school-based athletics.
“Forcing them to compete against boys isn’t fair, shatters their dreams, and destroys their athletic opportunities,” said Christiana Holcomb, an attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom, the nonprofit legal firm representing the plaintiffs. “Having separate boys and girls sports has always been based on biological differences, not what people believe about their gender, because those differences matter for fair competition.”
Two sprinters who are biologically male but identify as female have combined to win 15 girls state championship titles and their victories have taken away more than 85 opportunities for biological girls to participate in higher-level competitions in the last three years, according to the lawsuit.
“It was definitely frustrating and disheartening to be right there, running for the biggest honors in the state, and to work so hard and try so hard to be the best in the state,” Mitchell told The Daily Signal. She lost four girls state championships and two all–New England titles to boys who identify as girls.
Holcomb said the state athletics policy on transgender competitors forces girls to be spectators in their own sports and “reverses nearly 50 years of advances for women.” —M.J.
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NEWS2ME
Posted: Sat, 02/15/2020 12:08 pm'Poor Judgment' - Is that not like taking an alcoholic to a bar and setting a drink in front of him when he says he won't drink? Or taking a gambler to a Las Vegas gambling casino? What makes people think that pastors make good counselors?
NEWS2ME
Posted: Sat, 02/15/2020 03:11 pmFamale runners fight back
Good for them and others who follow. It has been proven that men and women are different, otherwise there would be more women football players.
Our gov't has for too long given in to the whims of people who pretend to be women. Our gov't also gives in to frivolous lawsuits (not referring to the above). Like lawsuits in Alaska against Palin. Why was it ok for Obama's minions to go after Palin because she stood up to him. It's what thugs do. The liberal thugs have been after Trump since before he took office. They bad mouth anyone who works with Trump so they will quit. It's who the liberals are. It's how they operate. They are racist so they point to anyone who is not liberal and say they are racist. (I found the political parallel to all this in the UK very unnerving.)
NEWS2ME
Posted: Sat, 02/15/2020 03:24 pmThe World Health Organization supports decriminalization. (this is my shocked face)
They must be making money off the sex trade.
Does prostitution and abortion go hand in hand? (shocked again)
So women who complained all these years about freedom for women have come down to them making money off this as well.
I guess we women are no better than men when it comes to running the world. It's nothing personal, it's just business.
krelf
Posted: Sat, 02/15/2020 08:34 pmRegarding the decriminalization of prostitution: this should NOT happen without the criminalization of the purchase of sex by patrons or the selling of sex by pimps. The Nordic model of attacking the problem of prostitution shows promise in reducing the incidence of prostitution. Prostitutes are not charged with crime, but instead are offered support services to leave the industry. Patrons and pimps instead are the ones charged with criminal activity. The effect of this two-pronged approach is to reduce demand for prostitution. I would hope that the Nordic model would also be applied to human trafficking. Here's an article link for more information: https://nordicmodelnow.org/what-is-the-nordic-model/.