Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Three female athletes in Connecticut have filed a lawsuit that says biology, and not gender identification, should be the only basis for competing in women’s sports after President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order White House allowing biological males to compete against females in women’s sports. The order comes at a time when girls are fearful that males who are competing as trans-gender females are going to trample their chances for success.
“Mentally, physically, we know the outcome before the race even starts,” said Alanna Smith, a sophomore at Connecticut's Danbury High School, who is the daughter of former Major League pitcher Lee Smith.
“That biological unfairness doesn’t go away because of what someone believes about gender identity.
"Girls deserve the chance to compete on a level playing field,” Smith said.
“That biological unfairness doesn’t go away because of what someone believes about gender identity."Girls deserve the chance to compete on a level playing field,” Smith said.
After biologically male athletes were given the blessing of the Joe Biden White House to compete against females in women’s sports, White House press secretary Jen Psaki affirmed last week that at least one of the groups involved in the debate has "rights."
Psaki was asked Tuesday if President Biden has “a message for local school officials on dealing with these kind of disputes that are already starting to arise between trans girls who are competing and cis girls, and a level playing field? Particularly in high school sports, when it leads to college scholarships, is there any kind of messaging or clarification that the White House wants to give on the executive order?”
“I would just say that the President’s belief is that trans rights are human rights. That’s why he signed that executive order. And in terms of the determinations by universities and colleges, I’d certainly defer to them,” Psaki said.
Since Biden’s executive order bans discrimination on the basis of “gender identity” – the order itself asserts that “children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports," – the order will lead to the inclusion of men who identify as women participating on the sports’ teams of their choosing.
“Forcing girls to be spectators in their own sports is completely at odds with Title IX, a federal law designed to create equal opportunities for women in education and athletics,” said attorney Christiana Holcomb, who is represnting the three female athletes in Connecticut filed a lawsuit.
“Connecticut’s policy violates that law and reverses nearly 50 years of advances for women,” Holcomb said.
“Connecticut’s policy violates that law and reverses nearly 50 years of advances for women,” Holcomb said.Currently, nearly 300 high-school boys have recorded faster times than the fastest female sprinter in world history, American Allyson Felix (left,) who has won a total nine Olympic Medals during her four Olympic Games appearances – including 6 Golds.
In comments to a highly skeptical Sen. Rand Paul, President Biden's Education Secretary nominee Miguel Cardona indicated to the Kentucky Republican last week during his confirmation hearing that transgender athletes deserve the same opportunities as other athletes.
“I think that it’s critically important to have education systems and educators respect the rights of all students, including students who are transgender, and that they are afforded the opportunities that every other student has to participate in extracurricular activities,” said Cardona, who is currently Connecticut’s Education Commissioner.
Paul pushed back against the comment.
“It would completely destroy girls’ athletics. The girls are being pushed out,” he said.
Paul said common sense should inform decision-making.
“Some boy that’s 6-foot-2 competing against my 5-foot-4 niece doesn’t sound very fair. I think most people in the country think it’s bizarre. …
"You’re going to run the Department of Education, and you’ve got no problem with it?
"That concerns me,” said Paul.
Selina Soule, a senior at Connecticut's Glastonbury High School, Chelsea Mitchell, a senior at Canton High School, along with Danbury High School's Alanna Smith are represented by the conservative nonprofit organization, Alliance Defending Freedom."You’re going to run the Department of Education, and you’ve got no problem with it?
"That concerns me,” said Paul.
They argue that allowing athletes with male anatomy to compete has deprived them of track titles and scholarship opportunities.
The lawsuit was filed against the both the Connecticut Association of Schools and the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, as well as the boards of education in Bloomfield, Cromwell, Glastonbury, Canton and Danbury.
“In one of his first acts as president, Joe Biden signed an executive order paving the way for a federal mandate that all schools receiving federal funding let biological men play on women’s sports teams,” said former South Carolina Governor and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley (right.)"The order was framed as a matter of transgender rights. But really, it was an attack on women’s rights," Haley wrote in a National Review article denouncing Biden’s action.
“Across the sporting world, the game is being rigged against women and in favor of biological men. President Biden is the latest man to do the rigging, which is strange coming from someone billed as a defender of women,” wrote Haley, saying it is time to stand up for "Women's Rights."
“Across the sporting world, the game is being rigged against women and in favor of biological men. President Biden is the latest man to do the rigging, which is strange coming from someone billed as a defender of women,” wrote Haley, saying it is time to stand up for "Women's Rights."
