High school trans athlete fighting Trump’s executive order protects girls’ sports in court
Two transgender high school families New Hampshire athletes He added President Donald Trump’s administration to a lawsuit challenging lawsuits that prevent athletes from competing in women’s sports.
Teen plaintiffs Parker Tirell and Iris Turmell originally filed a lawsuit. last year Challenging current New Hampshire law that prohibits trans athletes from participating in women’s sports. On Wednesday, a federal judge granted a request to add the Trump administration to the defendants’ list over the president’s recent executive order.
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Trump signed the “No Men’s Sports for Women’s Sports” executive order on February 5th. This banned federal funding for educational institutions that allowed biological men to compete with women or women’s sports teams.
New Hampshire was already one of 25 states with laws enforcing similar bans on trans-inclusion, but Tyrrell and Turmell compete on women’s teams anyway thanks to the rulings of federal judges in the state You are permitted to do so.
“The systematic targeting of trans people across American institutions is cold, but targeting young people in schools and denying their support and essential opportunities during the most vulnerable years is particularly true. It’s cruel,” said happy lawyer Chris Eltzul.
The lawyers argue for Trump’s executive order, Presidential Order of January 20th It bans the federal government from being used to promote gender ideology and violates teenagers and all transgender girls’ rights under the federal government’s equal protection guarantee and Title IX. Imposing discrimination.
The lawyers also alleged that the executive order illegally poses the threat of losing federal funds to allow teenage schools to play sports.
The situation involving two transathletes also comes after parents read “XX” regarding biological female chromosomes and worn wristbands that were said to have been banned from school grounds for wearing them. urged a second lawsuit.
Plaintiffs Kyle Fellers and Anthony Foot sued the arch school district after being banned from the school grounds for wearing wristbands in their daughter’s soccer game in September.
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in Litigation Submitted by Fellers and Foote, they either claimed that school officials were told to remove the armband or that they had to leave the game.
Both fathers say the armband’s intention is not to protest Tyrrell, but to support their daughter in a game featuring biological men.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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