Female athletes are retiring after competing against biological men, track champion warns: 'It's devastating'

 Track athlete Selina Soule and attorney Christiana Kiefer speak out against transgender athletes in women's sports on 'America Reports.'

Selina Soule, a track and field champion who was forced to compete against biological males in high school, pleaded with other women to take a stand in defense of female athletes as she prepares for a legal battle against the state of Connecticut.

"Everybody who has encountered this issue needs to speak up and ask for fairness," Soule said Wednesday on "America Reports." "I was one of the very first to start speaking on this issue, and it’s taken awhile, but we are finally starting to get somewhere…we need to protect every single girl in this country," 

Soule urged "everybody out there…to start speaking on this issue and ask for fairness to be restored to women sports."

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Some states are moving toward banning transgender student athletes from participating on the teams that align with their gender identity. (AP Photo/Samuel Metz, File)

Soule made the comment as she heads back to court to appeal her case challenging a Connecticut ruling that allows transgender students to participate in sports consistent with their preferred gender.

Soule and other athletes were high school track student-athletes in 2020 when they first filed the lawsuit against the Connecticut Association of Schools, alleging that the policy allowing biological males to compete against women violated Title IX.

The Alliance Defending Freedom is now working to appeal a ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Robert Chatigny, who dismissed the lawsuit on procedural grounds, saying there was no dispute to resolve because the two