A Christian legal advocacy organization says an appeals court recently got it wrong.
In Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) senior counsel Christiana Kiefer defended four female athletes who were denied honors and opportunities because the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference allows biological males to compete in women’s sports.
“The court essentially looked at our clients and said that their losses and their wrong and incorrect records don’t matter,” Kiefer summarizes. “That’s a slap in the face to female athletes.”
In 2017, two male athletes began competing in girls’ high school track and soon broke 17 girls’ track meet records, depriving the plaintiffs of 85 opportunities to advance in competition.
According to the Associated Press, the three-judge panel said the four “cisgender” athletes lacked standing to sue — in part because their claims that they were deprived of wins, state titles, and athletic scholarship opportunities were speculative.
“All four plaintiffs regularly competed at state track championships as high school athletes, where plaintiffs had the opportunity to compete for state titles in different events,” the decision said. “And, on numerous occasions, plaintiffs were indeed ‘champions,’ finishing first in various events, even sometimes when competing against (transgender athletes).”
“Plaintiffs simply have not been deprived of a ‘chance to be champions,'” the judges added.
“Although we’re disappointed with the Second Circuit’s decision, I am ultimately optimistic about the overall trends across the country of protecting women’s sports and of standing up for female athletes,” Kiefer tells AFN.
High schools in Cherokee County, North Carolina, for example, canceled volleyball matches with Highlands High earlier this year after the team’s transgender female – a boy – spiked the ball at the net and severely hurt a female opponent.
ADF is currently assessing its options in the Connecticut case, including appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
This whole woke/transgender movement is ****. Men (DNA = XY) are stronger, bigger, faster, quicker than women (Bio101Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference). This allowance is way wrong. Girl and women sports were developed for this very reason. Now all the woke people (like DB Lia Thomas. who was a loser as a man and then decides to compete as a woman) are destroying this basic principle. Shame on all of them and their demented beliefs.
UNTIL all the female athletses, stand up and FIGHT, there won’t BE anymore female sports…
Female athletes will have to take a stand and the only recourse no is not to compete if a male athlete is present! She up, be prepared, go out onto the floor or field and when the team with the male comes out they should all walk out en masse! That shoulfd get the attention of the crowd and the associations holding the events.
Exactly. START fighting fire with fire…