{"id":459741,"date":"2021-04-27T11:50:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T15:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=459741"},"modified":"2021-04-27T12:25:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T16:25:21","slug":"federal-judge-dismisses-lawsuit-over-transgender-athletes-dominating-high-school-girls-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-dismisses-lawsuit-over-transgender-athletes-dominating-high-school-girls-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge Calls Lawsuit Preventing Biologically Male Participants In Womens&#8217; Sports &#8220;Moot&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffederal-judge-dismisses-lawsuit-over-transgender-athletes-dominating-high-school-girls-sports%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=459741&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Sunday brought by a group of female athletes over Connecticut\u2019s policy allowing male-to-female transgender students to compete in girls\u2019 sports.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea Mitchell, Alanna Smithfiled, and Selina Soule filed suit against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) in February 2020 for allowing two biological males, transgender students Andraya Yearwood and Terry Miller, to compete against girls in track and field. Ashley Nicoletti, another female high school athlete, later joined the suit. The plaintiffs argued that the transgender students had unfair physical advantages over their female competitors and should not be allowed to participate in high school girls\u2019 sports.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Court Judge Robert Chatigny dismissed the lawsuit, ruling it moot now that the transgender students had graduated from high school. Chatigny <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/legal-document\/soule-et-al-v-ct-association-schools-et-al-order-granting-motion-dismiss\">wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I conclude that the request to enjoin enforcement of the CIAC policy has become moot due to the graduation of Yearwood and Miller, whose participation in girls\u2019 track provided the impetus for this action. There is no indication that Smith and Nicoletti will encounter competition by a transgender student in a CIAC-sponsored event next season.\u00a0 Defendants\u2019 counsel have represented that they know of no transgender student who will be participating in girls\u2019 track at that time.6It is still theoretically possible that a transgender student could attempt to do so. Even then, however, a legally cognizable injury to these plaintiffs would depend on a transgender student running in the same events and achieving substantially similar times. Such \u201cspeculative contingencies\u201d are insufficient to satisfy the case or controversy requirement of Article III.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yearwood and Miller dominated Connecticut girls\u2019 track while they were in high school. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/boys-competing-with-girls-won-track-meets-the-girls-just-filed-a-lawsuit-in-federal-court\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported, Yearwood and Miller \u201chave taken 15 women\u2019s state championship titles (titles held in 2016 by nine different Connecticut girls) and have taken more than 85 opportunities to participate in higher level competitions from female track athletes in the 2017, 2018, and 2019 seasons alone.\u201d Their 2020 season was cut short by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration had taken interest in the case and sided with the plaintiffs against the CIAC for allowing biological males to compete in female sports. The Biden administration later rescinded that support. Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/high-school-girl-athlete-blasts-biden-administration-for-abandoning-her-lawsuit\">appeared<\/a> on Fox News last February and blasted President Joe Biden\u2019s withdrawal from the suit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got involved after I ran against the biological males at the New England meet because in the 200 meter I took third place when I\u00a0 should have gotten runner-up,\u201d Smith said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s not really about placement but it\u2019s all about knowing that I work so many hours a week to be able to get runner-up in New England\u2019s [championships] as a freshman. And I am really disappointed in the news, because me and the other girls, Selina and Chelsea, have worked really hard to get our stories out there, to get people to realize that fairness needs to be restored in our sport and all other women\u2019s sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople should realize that a lot of biological females have missed out on making it to meets that really matter, like states and regionals, and the transgender athletes have taken spots on the podium that belong to biological females,\u201d Smith added. \u201cWe train for so many days a week, so many hours to be able to be the best in our state and the best in our region, and these biological males are just taking it away from us and we really deserve it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Sunday brought by a group of female athletes over Connecticut\u2019s policy allowing male-to-female transgender students to compete in girls\u2019 sports.Chelsea Mitchell, Alanna Smithfiled, and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}