We are four New England teenagers who propelled the legal battle for fairness in women’s sports

Four years ago, we filed the first federal lawsuit of its kind in the nation, challenging our state’s athletic policy that allowed males to compete on the girls’ team.

Selina Soule is a former Connecticut high school track-and-field athlete, and a plaintiffs in Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools

Four years ago, we filed the first federal lawsuit of its kind in the nation, challenging our state’s athletic policy that allowed males to compete on the girls’ team. We were just teenagers when we started sharing our experience, and it took a while – and a lot of other female athletes joining us – for the American public and government officials to realize this wasn’t an isolated issue affecting a handful of girls in New England, but rather, it was becoming prevalent.