Female High School Track Star Says Competing Against Trans Athletes Is ‘Devastating’ SHARETWEET By Tré Goins-PhillipsEditorMay 24, 2021 For former Connecticut track star Chelsea Mitchell, competing against transgender athletes — biological males — was “devastating.” Mitchell opened up about her past experience in an editorial published Sunday in USA Today. She explained why she and three other athletes filed a lawsuit last yearagainst the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference over the state’s decision to allow transgender athletes to compete on the teams that correlate with their determined sex and gender identity. She expressed how crushing it was to lose “four women’s state championship titles, two all-New England awards, and numerous other spots on the podium to male runners.” “That’s a devastating experience,” Mitchell wrote of competing against...