Chelsea Mitchell is fighting for the integrity of women’s sports after she lost over 20 races thanks to Connecticut’s policy that allows transgender athletes to compete in girls sports.
“At the end of the day, this is just about fairness,” Chelsea Mitchell told The Post. “This is about biology.”
“I wanted to give voice to my story and help other girls out there so that they wouldn’t have to experience this,” she said. Chelsea competed against two transgender athletes in her high school career, including Terry Miller .“Just two athletes took so many opportunities away from biological females,” Mitchell told The Post. “Even though there were only two of them, they took 15 state championships away from other girls — and there were 85 girls that were directly impacted from them being in the races.
Today, Mitchell is running track as a college senior , but she said she’ll never know how the dings to her record impacted her recruitment and scholarship prospects.
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