USA TODAY FINDS THE WORD "MALE" TO BE HURTFUL, FOR THOSE PARENTS FOLLOWING TRANSGENDER ISSUES, WOMEN'S SPORTS & CHELSEA MITCHELL'S ORIGINAL UNCENSORED PIECE

Once again, parents who have questions about these issues must refer them to the school district in question....

TWO ARTICLES:

#1 - USA Today has published an editor’s note on an op-ed by Chelsea Mitchell, a female high-school athlete, regretting the supposedly “hurtful language” Mitchell used. Several references to the word “male” were switched to “transgender.” READ MORE HERE.

AND THE ORIGINAL UNCENSORED PIECE in which USA TODAY changed the word "male" to transgender:

#2 - I WAS THE FASTEST GIRL IN CONNECTICUT BUT (MALE) TRANSGENDER ATHLETES MADE IT AN UNFAIR FIGHT

By Alliance Defending Freedom posted on:

May 26, 2021 - Editor’s note: On May 22, USA Today published an opinion piece from Alliance Defending Freedom client Chelsea Mitchell (Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools) about the injustice she experienced as an athlete who was forced to compete against males in track. On May 25, editors at USA Today, without notice to Chelsea, changed the word “male” to “transgender” throughout her piece and added the following editor’s note to the top of it:

“This column has been updated to reflect USA TODAY’s standards and style guidelines. We regret that hurtful language was used.”

We reproduce the original version of Chelsea’s piece below so that you can read what she wrote prior to USA Today’s post-publication edits and editor’s note, which inappropriately assigned “hurtful” motives to Chelsea’s logical use of the word “male” to refer to the biology of males who compete in female sports.

By: Chelsea Mitchell 

It’s February 2020. I’m crouched at the starting line of the high school girls’ 55-meter indoor race. This should be one of the best days of my life. I’m running in the state championship, and I’m ranked the fastest high school female in the 55-meter dash in the state. I should be feeling confident. I should know that I have a strong shot at winning.

Instead, all I can think about is how all my training, everything I’ve done to maximize my performance, might not be enough, simply because there’s a runner on the line with an enormous physical advantage: a male body.

I won that race, and I'm grateful. But time after time, I have lost.

I’ve lost four women’s state championship titles, two all-New England awards, and numerous other spots on the podium to male runners. I was bumped to third place in the 55-meter dash in 2019, behind two male runners. With every loss, it gets harder and harder to try again.

That’s a devastating experience. 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.

That experience is why three of my fellow female athletes and I filed a lawsuit last year with Alliance Defending Freedom against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC): because girls and women shouldn’t be stripped of their right to fair competition.

The CIAC allows biological males to compete in girls’ and women’s sports. As a result, two males began racing in girls’ track in 2017. In the 2017, 2018, and 2019 seasons alone, these males took 15 women’s state track championship titles (titles held in 2016 by nine different girls) and more than 85 opportunities to participate in higher level competitions that belonged to female track athletes.  READ MORE AT https://adflegal.org/blog/i-was-fastest-girl-connecticut-transgender-athletes-made-it-unfair-fight

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UPDATED

USA Today Blasted For Caving To ‘Woke Mob,’ Editing ‘Hurtful’ Language Out Of Op-Ed On Trans Athletes--'MALE" is now a hurtful word....more at https://www.dailywire.com/news/usa-today-blasted-for-caving-to-woke-mob-editing-hurtful-language-out-of-op-ed-on-trans-athletes?utm_source=Jeeng