Two transgender girls sue to challenge Trump’s executive order banning them from girls’ school sports
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Two transgender girls who attend high school in New Hampshire challenged the Trump administration’s recent executive order banning transgender girls and women from participating in girls’ sports, according to a court filing.
Two transgender girls who attend high school in New Hampshire challenged the Trump administration’s recent executive order banning transgender girls and women from participating in girls’ sports, according to a court filing. The teens, Parker Tirrell, 16, and Iris Turmelle, 15, previously sued New Hampshire education officials over a state law prohibiting them from competing on girls’ sports teams at their public high schools. On Wednesday, their attorneys GLAD Law and the ACLU of New Hampshire filed an amended complaint asking the court to expand the case nationally to challenge Trump’s executive order. Chris Erchull, senior staff attorney at GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, one of the plaintiffs’ representatives, said the executive order and others “amount to a coordinated campaign to prevent transgender people from functioning in society.” “School sports are an important part of education — something no child should be denied simply because of who they are,” Erchull said in a news release. “Our clients Parker and Iris simply want to go to school, learn, and play on teams with their peers.” Last week, Trump signed an executive order titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” and declared, “The war on women’s sports is over.” The order threatens to rescind federal funding from educational programs that allow transgender girls to participate in girls’ sports, in part by using Title IX, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit.
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