And expected to share a locker room and even showers.

Family Institute of Connecticut has discovered that dozens of girls were displaced by a boy competing in Connecticut High School Women’s Track and Field in 2025. The same boy is wrapping up competing in Varsity Women’s Volleyball this month. According to records available online, 15 girls from New Britain, Glastonbury, Stratford, Avon, Bristol, Housatonic, Prospect, Shelton and elsewhere, were forced to compete in the Varsity Women’s 400 meter and either lost or were displaced by a boy in 2025. Later in the season, the same athlete came in first place at a regional women’s 400 meter race, a full 3 seconds ahead of the second place girl. At the same event, he came in first place in the women’s 200 meter race, 2 seconds ahead of the fastest girl. He would have come in last place in the corresponding boy’s competition. At the CIAC Championship, the same athlete displaced 27 girls during competition. On June 1, 2025, during the Class L Championships, he displaced 13 girls from their rightful place in the Varsity 200 meters.

What is going on with Ansonia, Waterbury and Derby parents and other parents across the state? What goes through the mind as your daughter loses unjustly? I have a small sense of it from visiting volleyball competitions where this boy was allowed to play as a girl. My daughter has not had to compete directly, but it was humiliating and sad to watch. There was even a police officer surveying the stands. I felt hopeless and scandalized by the referees, coaches, administrators and adults in charge. How could they let this happen? Not just to the girls, but to the boy involved. Aren’t they aware of the health risks to suppressing puberty and administering cross sex hormones to a teen?

I can’t imagine how the girls must feel. Are they just hoping for what scholarships they can still get, knowing that drawing attention will only hurt them at an equally complicit college sports program. They are told to shut up so a boy’s feeling won’t be hurt. It is the return of sex discrimination I thought our culture had left far behind.

To parents whose children participate in the Naugatuck Valley Athletic League and all Connecticut towns who will be competing this June at the 2026 CIAC championships, now is the time to file your Title IX Complaint, write to your Boards of Education and copy the Office of Civil Rights for the Department of Education. It is sex discrimination under Title IX and a violation of due process and equal protection under the law to force your daughter to compete and share a locker room/shower room with a boy. Please file, even anonymously, if not for the benefit of your daughter this season, do it for the benefit of future girls sports in Connecticut, before it is too late.