A legal group representing three female Connecticut high school athletes filed a complaint with the US Department of Education.
The group asserted that the state’s governing body is violating federal law by allowing biological boys to compete and win in girls-only events.
Two boys named Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood, who identify as girls, have won 15 Connecticut girls’ state championship titles. Neither takes testosterone-suppressing hormones as required at international level. Their victories came after the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference issued a rule allowing athletes to compete in any gender-specific sport that matches their identity.
College places at stake
Biological girls are being outrun by more than 23 seconds in the 800-metre race and are missing out on college places as they don’t meet the qualifying time set by the biological boys.
