二年前にコネチカット州の女子高校陸上選手三人が女子競技に男子を参加させるのは女子にとって不公平だとして州を訴えていた訴訟、女子スポーツを救えるのは16歳の女子高生? – Scarecrow in the Strawberry Field (biglizards.net)で、コネチカット連邦裁は先日彼女たちの訴訟を棄却するという残念な結果となった。それに関して原告のひとりであるチェルシー・ミッチェルがUSAトゥデイに投稿した記事が、掲載された三日後に同紙が著者のミッチェルに無断で「男子」という言葉を「トランスジェンダー」と書き換えていたことが解った。

下記は書き換えられたタイトルだが、元々は「私はコネチカットで一番速い女の子だった。だが男子選手がそれを不公平にした」だったのだが、下記のように「男子選手」がトランスジェンダー選手と書き換えられてしまったのだ。

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I Was the Fastest Girl in Connecticut. But Transgender Athletes Made it an Unfair Fight.

USAトゥデイは動詞の基準とガイドラインに合わせて書き直した、悪意のある言葉使いを使ったことを謝罪すると注意書きを添えている。「男子」という言葉のどこに悪意があるというのだ?ミッチェル達が問題にしているのは、男子が女子競技に参加したことなのであり、彼らがトランスジェンダーかどうかが問題なのではない。

2020年、女子高校生陸上短距離選手として州一番だったミッチェルが二人の男子生徒により常に三位に甘んじなければならなかったくやしさを彼女はこのコラムで語っている。どれだけがんばっても肉体的に圧倒的に有利な男性体には勝つことが出来ない。メダルの座を失ったのは彼女だけではない、四位や五位になった選手たちは大学への奨学金をもらえなかったり、推薦入学の枠から外れたりしたのである。

今回の訴訟は棄却されたが、彼女たちは諦めていないと語る。原告たちはADF弁護士と共に控訴する意思を明らかにしている。


4 responses to 女子競技に男子が参加するのは不公平だと訴えた女子高選手の記事、新聞社が勝手に「男子」を「トランスジェンダー」と書き換える

苺畑カカシ1 year ago

https://www.foxnews.com/media/alliance-defending-freedom-argue-connecticut-policy-harms-girls-sports-clear-violation-title-ix
Alliance Defending Freedom to argue Connecticut policy harms girls’ sports, is ‘clear violation of Title IX’
Alliance Defending Freedom says the policy denied female athletes medals and/or advancement opportunities

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苺畑カカシ1 year ago

Oral arguments are set to begin Thursday in a case involving four female athletes who challenged a Connecticut policy that allows males who identify as female to compete in girls’ athletic events.

Alliance Defending Freedom, which is representing track athletes Selina Soule, Alanna Smith, Chelsea Mitchell, and Ashley Nicoletti in Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools, said in a press release ahead of arguments that the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference’s policy resulted in males who identify as female “consistently depriving” the women of honors and opportunities to compete at elite levels. The group argues, for instance, that the young women were denied medals and/or advancement opportunities. A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit on April 25, 2021, but the plaintiffs have appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit.

“What we’re arguing before the court tomorrow at the Second Circuit is that the court should allow this case to move forward, that girls should be able to make their case in court and demonstrate that males coming in and dominating girls’ sports is a clear violation of Title IX,” ADF Senior Counsel Christiana Kiefer told Fox News Digital.

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苺畑カカシ1 year ago

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/court-upholds-connecticut-s-transgender-athlete-policy/ar-AA15mZeH?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=74bfe8f90d934d77ae06782bfe82793c
ARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday dismissed a challenge to Connecticut’s policy of allowing transgender girls to compete in girls high school sports, rejecting arguments by four cisgender runners who said they were unfairly forced to race against transgender athletes.
A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City upheld a lower court judge’s dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the policy. The panel said the four cisgender athletes lacked standing to sue — in part because their claims that they were deprived of wins, state titles and athletic scholarship opportunities were speculative.
“All four Plaintiffs regularly competed at state track championships as high school athletes, where Plaintiffs had the opportunity to compete for state titles in different events,” the decision said. “And, on numerous occasions, Plaintiffs were indeed “champions,” finishing first in various events, even sometimes when competing against (transgender athletes).”

The judges added, “Plaintiffs simply have not been deprived of a ‘chance to be champions.’”

The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Council argued its policy is designed to comply with a state law that requires all high school students be treated according to their gender identity. It also said the policy is in accordance with Title IX, the federal law that allows girls equal educational opportunities, including in athletics.

The American Civil Liberties Union defended the two transgender athletes at the center of the lawsuit — Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood.

“Today’s ruling is a critical victory for fairness, equality, and inclusion” Joshua Block, a lawyer for the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project, said in a statement. “This critical victory strikes at the heart of political attacks against transgender youth while helping ensure every young person has the right to play.”
Transgender athletes’ ability to compete in sports is the subject of a continuing national debate. At least 12 Republican-led states have passed laws banning transgender women or girls in sports based on the premise it gives them an unfair competitive advantage.

Transgender rights advocates counter such laws aren’t just about sports, but another way to demean and attack transgender youth.

Christiana Kiefer, a lawyer with the conservative Alliance Defending Freedom who represented the four Connecticut cisgender athletes, said she and other alliance attorneys are considering how to respond, including possibly asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review Friday’s decision.

“Our clients, like all female athletes across the country, deserve fair competition,” Kiefer said in a phone interview. “And that means fair and equal quality of competition, and that just does not happen when you’re forced to compete against biological males in their sports.”

Kiefer added, “The vast majority of the American public recognizes that in order to have fair sports, we have to protect the female category, and I think you’re seeing that trend increasingly with states across the country passing laws to protect women’s sports. … This is certainly not the end of the road in the fight for fairness for female athletes.”

The plaintiffs sought injunctions to bar enforcement of the state policy on transgender athletes and to remove records set by transgender athletes from the books, as well as money damages.

In arguments before a federal judge in Connecticut in February 2021, Roger Brooks, another lawyer for the Alliance Defending Freedom, said Title IX guarantees girls “equal quality” of competition, which he said is denied by having to race people with what he described as inherent physiological advantages.

Brooks said the transgender sprinters improperly won 15 championship races between 2017 and 2020 and cost cisgender girls the opportunity to advance to other races 85 times.

Miller and Yearwood, the transgender sprinters from Bloomfield and Cromwell, respectively, frequently outperformed their cisgender competitors.

The plaintiffs competed directly against them, almost always losing to Miller and usually finishing behind Yearwood. One of the plaintiffs, Chelsea Mitchell of Canton High School, finished third in the 2019 state championship in the girls 55-meter indoor track competition behind Miller and Yearwood.

All the athletes have since graduated from high school.

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苺畑カカシ1 year ago

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/court-to-reconsider-connecticut-rule-allowing-transgender-athletes-in-girls-sports/ar-AA17rNyH?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=22cc2442de2f4001b18ce50325842120
Court to reconsider Connecticut rule allowing transgender athletes in girls’ sports
(Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Monday agreed to reconsider a lawsuit challenging a Connecticut policy allowing transgender students to compete in girls’ high school sports.

All judges of the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will now hear arguments in the case, which had been heard by a panel of three judges last September.

The panel in December rejected claims by four cisgender female students that the policy deprived them of wins and athletic opportunities by requiring them to compete with two transgender sprinters.

They had sued the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC), which oversees high school sports in Connecticut, saying its policy violated Title IX, a federal law designed to create equal opportunities for women in education and athletics.

“We’re pleased the 2nd Circuit has decided to rehear this important case, and we urge the court to protect women’s athletic opportunities,” Christiana Kiefer, senior counsel at the conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents the plaintiffs, said in a statement.

A CIAC spokesperson declined to comment.

The 2020 lawsuit came amid a push by Republican-led states to bar transgender athletes from competing on teams or sports that align with their gender identities.

Circuit Judge Denny Chin, writing for the three-judge panel, in September said the four plaintiffs had not shown they were deprived of opportunities, because all regularly competed in state track championships and on numerous occasions came in first.

The full court, following its usual practice, did not give a reason for rehearing the case beyond noting that a majority of the judges had voted in favor of it.

(Reporting By Brendan Pierson in New York; Editing by Alexia Garamfalvi, Lincoln Feast and David Gregorio)

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