Lawyer: Win over transgender runner shouldn’t affect suit
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Lawyers for three Connecticut high school runners suing to block the participation of transgender athletes in girls sports say recent victories on the track by one of their clients should have no bearing on the lawsuit.
Chelsea Mitchell, of Canton High School, beat transgender runner Terry Miller, of Bloomfield High School, in the 55-meter dash this month in both the Connecticut State Class S indoor track meet and the state open.
Mitchell and two other Connecticut high school runners filed a lawsuit this month seeking to block a state policy that allows high school athletes to compete based on the gender they identify with, arguing transgender girls have an unfair physical advantage.
In seeking to become defendants in the lawsuit, lawyers for Miller and Andraya Yeawood, another transgener athlete, point to Mitchell’s Class S victory as evidence that the plaintiffs' argument is faulty.
But in a court filing Wednesday, Mitchell’s lawyers argue that her wins over Miller do nothing to undermine the underlying argument that transgender athletes have unfair advantages.
“What Plaintiffs alleged — and what is true — is that due to physiological differences, female athletes cannot beat ‘comparably talented and trained’ males,” Mitchell's attorneys wrote. “And if Chelsea beat Miller by a hair in a particular race, Miller nevertheless deprived one girl of the second-place title in that race, and pushed the third-fastest girl off the victory podium entirely.”
These are the first races in the seniors’ high school careers that Miller has lost to Mitchell.
Stolen hearse carrying casket recovered after freeway chase
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A stolen hearse with a casket and body inside has been recovered following a police chase on a Los Angeles freeway Thursday morning.
The body was found in a casket inside the vehicle and one person was in custody, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said on Twitter.
Authorities said the vehicle that crashed on the 110 Freeway around 7:45 a.m. Thursday was the black Lincoln Navigator that was stolen from outside St. Anthony Greek Orthodox Church in East Pasadena on Wednesday night.
Sheriff's Sgt. Benjamin Grubb told KTLA-TV that a member of the public reported seeing the SUV. The Los Angeles Police Department pursued the vehicle, which ultimately crashed on the freeway. Video footage from news helicopters showed that it has heavy front-end damage.
Grubb said while the body did not appear to have been disturbed, it was unfortunate that the family of the dead person “has to be put through further trauma.”
The sheriff's department had appealed to the thief on social media Wednesday to return the body.
"Out of all the bad decisions you have made, at least make one good one and bring back the deceased person and casket inside the Navigator," it tweeted.
Local media have reported that the body remained in the vehicle while a mortuary attendant brought a different body into the church and that's when the SUV was stolen.
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