This month, three female high school athletes in Connecticut filed a lawsuit against their state’s athletic conference, arguing that their ability to compete on a level playing field has been violated.

The culprit: a state policy allowing biological males the ability to compete in girls’ sports as long as they “identify” as female. This has resulted in two male track athletes taking home a total of fifteen women’s state titles since 2017.

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