In the race Mitchell cited, she lost to two other high school girls, Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood. In a fashion befitting the sponsor of the lawsuit - the Alliance Defending Freedom - Mitchell proceeded to mix in the “transphobe’s playbook” I described in a previous Outsports article. It tells me that I’m not good enough that my body isn’t good enough and that no matter how hard I work, I am unlikely to succeed, because I’m a woman. I was bumped to third place in the 55-meter dash in 2019, behind two male runners. I’ve lost four women’s state championship titles, two all-New England awards, and numerous other spots on the podium to male runners. Mitchell, an 11-time state champion in Connecticut high school track and the Hartford Courant’s girls high school athlete of the year in 2019, began the piece recounting her state indoor championship 55-meter win last February. Chelsea Mitchell, left, wrote about her win last year, but also tries to sell the victory as a defeat for women’s sports Photo by Christian Abraham, Courtesy of CT Post, Hearst Connecticut Media, used with permission. She is a plaintiff in the much-discussed, recently dismissed, and soon-to-be-appealed lawsuit against the Connecticut Association of Schools and Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference over policies that allows transgender student-athletes to participate in sports in line with their gender. This is the backdrop for an opinion piece in USA Today Saturday by Chelsea Mitchell. More states are continuing to push this process and a few, such as Kansas, have seen such efforts mercifully die. Six states - Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi - have passed trans student-athlete bans. The proposed laws range from criminalizing affirming health care for trans youth to bans on transgender girls and women from participating in sports. The continuous legislative barrage against transgender Americans has swelled to 33 states and more than 120 pieces of legislation.
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