{"id":538114,"date":"2021-05-24T09:06:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T13:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=538114"},"modified":"2021-05-24T09:06:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T13:06:29","slug":"high-school-track-star-running-against-trans-athletes-is-devastating-tells-me-that-im-not-good-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/high-school-track-star-running-against-trans-athletes-is-devastating-tells-me-that-im-not-good-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"High School Track Star: Running Against Trans Athletes Is \u2018Devastating,\u2019 \u2018Tells Me That I\u2019m Not Good Enough\u2019"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fhigh-school-track-star-running-against-trans-athletes-is-devastating-tells-me-that-im-not-good-enough%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=538114&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Chelsea-Mitchell.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former high school track athlete Chelsea Mitchell said that competing against trans athletes was \u201cdevastating\u201d to her confidence and opportunities, and pledged to continue her legal battle to ban biological males from girls\u2019 sports.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell, the \u201cfastest girl in Connecticut,\u201d wrote an op-ed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2021\/05\/22\/transgender-athletes-girls-women-sports-track-connecticut-column\/5149532001\/\">USA Today<\/a> on Sunday explaining why she and three other athletes sued the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) last year over the state\u2019s decision to allow trans athletes to compete based on gender identity instead of biology.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell competed against biologically male athletes for most of high school career and said that continuous losses to those trans athletes was demoralizing to her and other girls in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2020\/02\/12\/frustrating-and-disheartening-3-girls-losing-to-biological-males-in-track-announce-lawsuit\/\">I\u2019ve lost four women\u2019s state championship titles<\/a>, two all-New England awards, and numerous other spots on the podium to male runners. I was bumped to third place in the 55-meter dash in 2019, behind two male runners. With every loss, it gets harder and harder to try again,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a devastating experience. It tells me that I\u2019m not good enough; that my body isn\u2019t good enough; and that no matter how hard I work, I am unlikely to succeed, because I\u2019m a woman,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell and fellow female high school athletes Alanna Smithfiled, Selina Soule, Ashley Nicoletti sued CIAC in February 2020 for allowing two biological males, transgender students Andraya Yearwood and Terry Miller, to compete in girls track and field competitions. A federal district judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/federal-judge-dismisses-lawsuit-over-transgender-athletes-dominating-high-school-girls-sports\">dismissed<\/a> the lawsuit in April, ruling that the question was moot since Yearwood and Miller had graduated and were no longer competing in high school sports.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell intends to appeal the judge\u2019s decision, however. While they competed, Yearwood and Miller dominated Connecticut high school girls track. As Mitchell writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11.212121212121\">\n<p><em>The CIAC&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2020\/06\/19\/transgender-athletes-robbing-girls-chance-win-sports-column\/4856486002\/\">allows biological males to compete in girls\u2019 and women\u2019s sports<\/a>. As a result, two males began racing in girls\u2019 track in 2017. In the 2017, 2018, and 2019 seasons alone, these males took&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/adflegal.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2021-02\/Soule%20v.%20Connecticut%20Association%20of%20Schools%20-%20One%20Page%20Summary.pdf\">15 women\u2019s state track championship titles&nbsp;<\/a>(titles held in 2016 by nine different girls) and more than 85 opportunities to participate in higher level competitions that belonged to female track athletes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That\u2019s because males have massive physical advantages. Their bodies are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/voices\/2019\/09\/27\/transgender-athletes-supreme-court-sex-equality-column\/2421776001\/\">simply bigger and stronger on average<\/a>&nbsp;than female bodies. It\u2019s obvious to every single girl on the track.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The repeated losses to biologically male athletes chip \u201caway at women\u2019s confidence and our belief in our own abilities,\u201d Mitchell continued. She went on to point out that the trans athletes may have costed female athletes opportunities to play their sport at the next level, as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[CIAC\u2019s policy on transgender athletes] robs girls of the chance to race in front of college scouts who show up for elite metes, and to compete for the scholarships and opportunities that come with college recruitment,\u201d Mitchell said. \u201cI\u2019ll never know how my own college recruitment was impacted by losing those four state championship titles to a male. When colleges looked at my record, they didn\u2019t see the fastest girl in Connecticut. They saw a second- or third-place runner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell ended the op-ed promising to appeal the court\u2019s decision and continue her fight to protect the integrity of high school girls\u2019 sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re taking our case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, where we are going to ask once again for the court to recognize our right to fair competition \u2014 a right that Title IX has promised to girls and women for 50 years,\u201d Mitchell said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/high-school-girl-athlete-blasts-biden-administration-for-abandoning-her-lawsuit\">\u2018These Biological Males Are Just Taking It Away From Us\u2019: High School Girl Athlete Blasts Biden Administration For Abandoning Her Lawsuit<\/a><\/strong><\/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>Former high school track athlete Chelsea Mitchell said that competing against trans athletes was \u201cdevastating\u201d to her confidence and opportunities, and pledged to continue her legal battle to ban biological &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312784,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Chelsea-Mitchell.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"High School Track Star: Running Against Trans Athletes Is \u2018Devastating,\u2019 \u2018Tells Me That I\u2019m Not Good Enough\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Chelsea-Mitchell.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"High School Track Star: Running Against Trans Athletes Is \u2018Devastating,\u2019 \u2018Tells Me That I\u2019m Not Good Enough\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538114","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=538114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}