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USA Today changes ‘male’ to ‘transgender’ in op-ed by Connecticut high-school runner

Updated: May 27, 2021 at 5:57 pm EST  See Comments

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May 27, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The conservative Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is calling out USA Today for editing an op-ed by Connecticut track athlete Chelsea Mitchell about gender-confused males in female sports by replacing her use of accurate biological terms with more politically-correct “transgender” descriptors.

Mitchell is one of three female athletes ADF is representing in their case against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC), which they allege has deprived female students of athletic and scholarship opportunities thanks to rules permitting gender-confused males to participate in sex-segregated women’s programs, without any conditions pertaining to physical transitions or testosterone levels.

“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 wrote in an op-ed originally published by USA Today and reprinted at ADF’s website. “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.”

“But besides the psychological toll of experiencing unfair losses over and over, the CIAC’s policy has more tangible harms for women,”

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