I am a women's track and field champion. Here's why I continue to fight for the future of women's sports

Everything is a competition to me—from sports to carnival games at the fair. Even when I’m stopped at a red light, I want to be the first to go when the light turns green, beating the car next to me. I attribute my competitive spirit to growing up in an athletic family and playing sports from as early as I can remember.I wanted to try everything, so at three, my parents brought me to the ice rink at Rockefeller Center and taught me how to skate. I loved skating, so in high school, I became a coach and started teaching it alongside my mom. At five, I started competing in fun runs in my hometown of Glastonbury, Connecticut, and loved winning. I also participated in swimming, gymnastics, cheerleading, and skiing.I found my niche at eight years old: track and field. I loved it when the gun went off and I turned into a blur of pink in my little tracksuit. I was fast, and by the time I reached high school, I excelled in short sprints and long jump.

Former Conn. high school track champion Selina Soule is a college junior pursuing a degree in communications.

It wasn’t long before I discovered that athletic associations have the power to make rules that directly impacted my ability to win races. No matter how hard I trained, enduring long hours of practice, I just couldn’t beat a boy.

ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM TO ARGUE CONNECTICUT POLICY HARMS GIRLS' SPORTS, IS 'CLEAR VIOLATION OF TITLE IX'

The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference adopted a policy that allows males who identify as female to compete in girls’ athletic events—defying common sense and the scientific fact that men and women’s bodies are different. In track and field, these differences really show up in stature, skeletal structure, muscle mass, and