{"id":68132,"date":"2020-02-13T02:47:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T07:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=68132"},"modified":"2020-02-13T02:47:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T07:47:19","slug":"extra-lessons-in-losing-female-track-athletes-sue-connecticut-for-letting-males-compete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/extra-lessons-in-losing-female-track-athletes-sue-connecticut-for-letting-males-compete\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Extra lessons in losing’: Female track athletes sue Connecticut for letting males compete"},"content":{"rendered":"

They document the honors they lost to competition from males<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Last summer the Department of Education opened a Title IX investigation<\/a> of Connecticut athletics for letting biological males compete in girls’ track and field, which possibly denies “equal athletic benefits and opportunities to girls.”<\/p>\n

It was prompted by an unusual occurrence: two biologically male runners who started dominating the sport<\/a> in 2017 when the state first allowed transgender girls to compete against biological females.<\/p>\n

The girls behind the federal complaint don’t want to wait for the agency to figure things out, however, as their high school careers come to an end.<\/p>\n

They filed a lawsuit<\/a> against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference and several school districts Wednesday, seeking a ban on “males\u2014individuals with an XY genotype\u2014from participating in events that are designated for girls, women, or females.”<\/p>\n

Alanna Smith, Chelsea Mitchell and Selina Soule (left to right, above<\/em>) are also asking a federal judge to “remove male athletes from any record or recognition” they achieved in girls’ sports and “correctly give credit and\/or titles” to girls who would have earned those marks in the absence of boys.<\/p>\n

MORE<\/strong>: Connecticut under federal investigation for anti-female policy<\/a><\/p>\n