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‘Scarred’: Court Restores Girls’ Claims Of Injury From Boys In Athletics

A legal fight brought on behalf of four female athletes who lost out on “honors and opportunities” because of male athletes competing in women’s events has been restored by the full U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.

It is the ADF that is representing Selina Soule, Chelsea Mitchell, Alanna Smith and Ashley Nicoletti, who lost in various events and competitions in the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference after officials in the sports organization allowed males to compete in girls’ events.

“Selina, Chelsea, Alanna, and Ashley—like all female athletes—deserve access to fair competition. The CIAC’s policy degraded each of their accomplishments and scarred their athletic records, irreparably harming each female athlete’s interest in accurate recognition of her athletic achievements,” explained Roger Brooks, an ADF spokesman.

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“The en banc 2nd Circuit was right to allow these brave women to make their case under Title IX and set the record straight. This is imperative not only for the women who have been deprived of medals, potential scholarships, and other athletic opportunities, but for all female athletes across the country.”

The decision allows the lawsuit titled Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools to be returned to federal district court and proceed there.

The ADF noted there, “the female athletes will seek a merits ruling in favor of fairness and equal opportunities for female athletes under Title IX.”

The origins of the problem began in 2017 when two males started competing in girls high school track events in the state. Officials allowed them to do so.

Their muscular superiority allowed them to deprive girl athletes of “more than 85 opportunities to advance to the next level of competition and took 15 women’s state track championship titles.”

The males set multiple records for “girls” events.

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“Four of those championship titles were earned by ADF client Chelsea Mitchell. Four times she was the fastest female in a women’s state championship race, and four times she watched that title, honor, and recognition go to a male athlete instead,” the legal team explained.

A coalition of athletes, Olympians, coaches, sports officials, 23 states, and several athletic and advocacy organizations rallied in support of the female athletes and their rights under Title IX by filing 12 friend-of-the-court briefs with the 2nd Circuit.

The 2nd Circuit bench, all 15 judges, were unanimous in determining that, “Plaintiffs have plausibly stated an injury in fact.”

Also, they ruled, “the alleged denial of equal athletic opportunity and concomitant loss of publicly recognized titles and placements during track and field competitions in which they participated against and finished behind” two males identifying as females. The court further concluded “that the alleged injury is plausibly redressable by monetary and injunctive relief.”

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