Joining her client in the Fox News interview, Soule’s attorney, Christiana Kiefer, asserted that women are being deprived of athletic opportunities within their own sports due to the inherent physical advantage held by biological men.
“Girls deserve to compete on a level playing field, and what Selena experienced…was being sidelined in her own sport, and that’s a clear violation of Title IX,” she argued.
During an appearance on Fox News, Hannah Arensman, a former 35-time national cyclocross champion, announced her decision to retire from the sport at the age of 25 after she suffered a defeat by a biological male competitor in last year’s women’s championships.
Soule said she finds it “devastating” that trans-males are pushing women out of their own sports.
“It’s devastating that there are women out there who are retiring or changing their events because they are being forced to compete against biological males where those males if they were competing in the men’s category, they would be barely mediocre. But in the women, they are dominating the field, and it’s a very, extremely frustrating situation,” she told Fox News’ Sandra Smith.
“It should not be happening. Women’s sports should be preserved as just women’s sports,” she said.