Legal Insurrection by James Nault 11/12/2024
Court: Connecticut High School Females’ Discrimination Case Over Males In Girls Sports Can Move Forward
Connecticut federal court rules that Plaintiffs’ Complaint alleging discrimination has enough substance to move forward to discovery and trialWe have been covering the case of four female high school athletes in Connecticut who got jacked out of numerous track titles by biological boys for over five years now, and the case certainly has had its ups and downs:
2019: Connecticut: High School Athletes File Federal Complaint Over ‘Transgender Women’ Participation in Female Sports Competitions
2020: Connecticut: Judge Rules Transgender Sprinters Competing Against Girls Cannot Be Called “Males” In Court . . . Or Else
2021: Judge Dismisses Lawsuit to Block Transgender Females From Competing in Female Sports
2022: Federal Appeals Court Rejects Challenge To Connecticut Policy Permitting Boys Who Identify As Girls To Play in Girls’ Sports
As you can see, the case looked dead in the water in 2022 when the federal Second Circuit court of appeals affirmed the Connecticut federal trial-level court’s conclusion that the four Plaintiffs in the case had their case “mooted out” when they all graduated from high school. As Professor Jacobson said at the time:
We are watching in real time the destruction of the traditional liberal feminist movement under the weight of “trans rights,” as both the meaning of what it is to be a “woman” and traditional women’s spaces (single sex bathrooms and locker rooms, victim support spaces, and even prisons) increasingly are opened up to males who identify as females. If a recent appeals court decision is any indication, some of the most important spaces — women’s and girls’ sports — will not be spared…
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