“Woke” federal courts have upheld a ruling that forces allowing men to compete in women’s high school sports

 by Edward Ulrich, December 18, 2022




From the video page: Transgender track star teens cause controversy in Connecticut - Connecticut had its State Open track and field championships at Willow Brook Park, and one transgender boy, Terry Miller of Bulkeley, broke the State Open records for girls in the 100-meter dash. The runner-up was Andraya Yearwood of Cromwell High School, also a transgender boy.


Much of this information is from this Yahoo News article.

(Also see this 2019 News of Interest.TV article that initially reported about this issue.)

On Friday a federal appeals court dismissed a challenge to Connecticut’s policy of allowing transvestite men to compete in girl’s high school sports, where it rejected arguments by four “cisgender” (meaning “normal”) girls who were unfairly forced to race against men in a high school track meet.

The female plaintiffs sought a ruling to bar enforcement of the state policy on transvestite athletes, and to remove records set by transvestite athletes from the books, as well as money damages.

A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City upheld a lower court judge’s dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the policy, where they claimed the athletes lacked “standing” to sue— ridiculously saying their claims of being deprived of wins, state titles, and athletic scholarships opportunities are “speculative.”

The judges said in their decision, “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 … 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.’”

One of the lawyers Christiana Kiefer with the group The Alliance Defending Freedom who represented the four female Connecticut athletes said she and other attorneys are considering how to respond, including possibly asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review Friday’s decision.

The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Council argued its policy complies with a state law that requires all high school students be treated according to their “gender identity,” and they also claimed the policy is in accordance with Title IX, the federal law that allows girls equal educational opportunities.

Another lawyer affiliated with The Alliance Defending Freedom named Roger Brooks pointed out that title IX guarantees girls “equal quality” of competition— yet that is being denied to female athletes since they are being required to compete against people who have “inherent physiological advantages.”

Brooks also explained that the transvestite athletes improperly won 15 championship races between 2017 and 2020, costing female athletes the opportunity to advance to other races 85 times.  [Note: Those facts negate the claims made by the court to justify dismissing the lawsuit.  Obviously the female athletes have a slam-dunk case, so it should be brought to the Supreme Court.  One can only hope that the case being brought to the highest court was the motivation for this lower court dismissing the case.]