Revealing the Cost of Girls Competing with Trans Athletes | Chelsea Mitchell Interview

The Rubin Report

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News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to track athlete Chelsea Mitchell and her lawyer Kristen Waggoner from the Alliance Defending Freedom about transgender athletes in girls' sports, the editing of her op-ed piece in USA Today to remove the phrase “biological males," and her lawsuit against Connecticut and the Connecticut Association of Schools regarding transgender women competing in girls' sports. Chelsea shares her firsthand experience of being one the fastest girls in her state, but constantly losing to transgender girls. She explains how this has cost her numerous state championships and medals. They discuss the reason for the separation of boys' and girls' sports and the unfair advantage that trans women in sports have over females. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today, Ruben and we're going to be doing something a bit different today.
0:10.3	Let me give you a little backstory here on May 22nd of this year.
0:13.9	USA Today put out an op-ed from Collegiate Trackstar, Chelsea Mitchell, about her experiences
0:20.7	competing against transgender athletes.
0:24.1	However, on May 25th, just three days later, the publication changed the word mail to transgender
0:30.5	throughout her piece without warning and called her out for using quote, hurtful language.
0:37.2	In an editor's note, the outlet explained that the op-ed was updated to quote, reflect
0:43.0	USA Today's standards and style guidelines.
0:46.8	We regret that hurtful language was used.
0:50.4	Today I'm speaking with the author of that op-ed and her lawyer.
0:54.6	Please welcome one of the fastest girls in Connecticut, Trackstar, Chelsea Mitchell, and
0:59.7	her lawyer who is the general counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom, Kristen Wagner.
1:05.7	Ladies, welcome to the Ruben Report.
1:07.1	Thank you.
1:08.1	Thank you.
1:09.1	All right, so I'm glad to have both of you.
1:13.0	Kristen, I reached out to you originally when I saw this story on Twitter because it just
1:17.5	so fit so many of the things that I've been talking about on this show.
1:23.6	Chelsea, I'll start with you since you wrote the original piece.
1:27.6	Well, I guess first just tell me how you got into Track and you enjoy running, right?
1:32.9	Like that's really what this is all about.
1:34.2	You want to compete against girls in running.
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