Two students contesting the prohibition of New Hampshire on transgender athletes of women’s sports teams will also fight The executive order of President Trump, “keep men outside female sports”, “ After a judge approved his request on Wednesday.
This is the first time that the constitutionality of the decree signed by Trump last week has been challenged in court, according to the legal defenders and defenders of GLBTQ based in Boston, also known as Glad Law, one of the groups representing adolescents.
“The systematic targeting of transgender people through American institutions is frightening, but the targeting of young people in schools, refusing them the support and essential opportunities during their most vulnerable years, is particularly cruel,” said Chris Erchull, a Happy lawyer.
Last fall, a federal judge of New Hampshire ruled that the two students could try and play in the school sports teams while adolescents dispute the ban on the state.
The families of Parker Tirrell, 15, and Turmeral Iris, 14, continued in August, seeking to cancel equity in the law on women’s sports that the former republican governor Chris Sunnunu signed in July.
Tirrell is a 10th year student who plays in his high school football team, and Turmella is a ninth year student who plans to try for tennis in the spring.
“I love playing football and we had a great season last fall,” Tirrell said in a statement. “I just want to go to school like other children and continue playing the game I like.”
The order of Trump last week gives federal agencies a great latitude to ensure that the entities which receive federal funding respect Title IX in alignment from the point of view of the Trump administration, which interprets “sex” as the sex of a person attributed to birth.
Glad and Aclu of the New Hampshire asked the judge to add Trump, the US Ministry of Justice, the Attorney General Pam Bondi, the US Ministry of Education and acting secretary Denise Carter as defendants.
An email asking for comments was sent to the White House press office.
In a brief ordinance, the American district judge Landya McCafferty said that she “found a good cause” to the lawyers to modify the trial.
Lawyers say that Trump’s decree, as well as parts of an executive decree of January 20, prohibiting federal money from being used to “promote gender ideology”, submits adolescents and all transgender girls to discrimination in violation of federal guarantees of equal protection and their rights under title IX.
Lawyers also claim that executive decrees illegally submit adolescent schools to the threat of losing federal funds to allow them to play sports.
Also on Wednesday, the civil rights office announced investigations into high school sports associations in Minnesota and California for having pretended to violate title IX.
After Trump signed the executive decree prohibiting transgender athletes last week, the Minnesota State High School League and California Interscholastic Federation said they would respect the laws of the state, which allow transgender players to participate in the teams women and girls.
The information from the Associated Press contributed to this report.