Selina Soule, a monitor and discipline champion who was pressured to compete towards organic males in highschool, pleaded with different girls to take a stand in protection of feminine athletes as she prepares for a authorized battle towards the state of Connecticut.
“Everybody who has encountered this issue needs to speak up and ask for fairness,” Soule mentioned Wednesday on “America Reports.” “I was one of the very first to start speaking on this issue, and it’s taken awhile, but we are finally starting to get somewhere…we need to protect every single girl in this country,”
Soule urged “everybody out there…to start speaking on this issue and ask for fairness to be restored to women sports.”
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Some states are transferring towards banning transgender pupil athletes from collaborating on the groups that align with their gender id. (AP Photo/Samuel Metz, File)
Soule made the remark as she heads again to courtroom to attraction her case difficult a Connecticut ruling that permits transgender college students to take part in sports activities in step with their most popular gender.
Soule and different athletes have been highschool monitor student-athletes in 2020 once they first filed the lawsuit towards the Connecticut Association of Schools, alleging that the coverage permitting organic males to compete towards girls violated Title IX.
The Alliance Defending Freedom is now working to attraction a ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Robert Chatigny, who dismissed the lawsuit on procedural grounds, saying there was no dispute to resolve as a result of the 2 transgender athletes have graduated, and the plaintiffs couldn’t determine different feminine transgender athletes.
Penn transgender swimmer Lia Thomas competed towards girls’s sports activities advocate Riley Gaines. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)
Soule’s lawyer, Christiana Kiefer, who joined her consumer within the Fox News interview, mentioned girls are being robbed of athletic alternatives in their very own sports activities due to the unfair bodily benefit possessed by organic males.
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“Girls deserve to compete on a level playing field, and what Selena experienced…was being sidelined in her own sport and that’s a clear violation of Title IX,” she argued.
Earlier Wednesday, Hannah Arensman, a 35-time nationwide cyclocross champion who walked away from her sport on the age of 25 after dropping to a transgender competitor within the girls’s championships final season, revealed on Fox News that she plans to retire.
Soule mentioned she finds it “devastating” that transgender athletes are pushing girls out of their very own sport.
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Hannah Arensman competes in 2016. (Tim de Waele/Corbis through Getty Images)
“It’s devastating that there are women out there who are retiring or changing their events because they are being forced to compete against biological males where those males, if they were competing in the men’s category, they would be barely mediocre. But in the women, they are dominating the field, and it’s a very, extremely frustrating situation,” she advised Fox News’ Sandra Smith.
“It should not be happening. Women’s sports should be preserved as just women’s sports,” she added.