Connecticut college track and field athlete Alanna Smith told Fox News on Wednesday that she was “disappointed” after the Biden Justice Department withdrew its support for the process that aims to prevent transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports.
The Justice Department supported Smith’s case last year during the Trump administration.
Smith, who is struggling with the rule after putting down a transgender runner in a competition, told Fox News Primetime that she and other athletes “worked hard to spread our stories to make people realize that justice needs to be restored. in our sport and in all other women’s sports ”.
Smith expects people to “realize that many biological women have lost the opportunity to participate in competitions that really matter … and transgender athletes have taken places on the podium that belong to biological women.
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“We train so many days a week, so many hours to be the best in our state and the best in our region, and these biological males are just taking that away from us and we really deserve it.”
Smith’s lawyer, Christiana Holcomb, of Alliance Defending Freedom, promised that the case would go ahead and called the DOJ decision “political motivation”.
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“What is even more worrying is that this effort has led to legal bowel protection for women is not just isolated from what we see in Connecticut,” she said. “Even now, the Biden government is pushing for the so-called Equality Act, which ignores physical differences between men and women and threatens women’s privacy, shelters for homeless women and, yes, even women’s sports at national level for athletes like Alanna. “
“Title IX was designed to ensure that girls like Alanna have a fair and level playing field,” concluded Holcomb, “We want to move on and see protected women’s sports across the country.”