Two trans public high school students in New Hampshire are challenging President Trump’s executive order that attempts to ban trans women and women from competing for women’s sports teams, according to documents filed in federal court on Wednesday.
The teenagers asked the court to join Mr. Trump and his administration members on Wednesday as defendants in a lawsuit filed last summer about their eligibility to play women’s sports in schools. The state enacted a law in August that prohibited transgender girls from participating in grades 5 to 12 to participate in women’s sports, and two students initially sued their school and state education officials, asking the court to rule that they could be on a team that was consistent with it. Compete their gender identity.
Their Wednesday court application appears to be the constitutionality of Mr. Trump’s executive order, titled “Transferring men from women’s sports”, was challenged in court for the first time.
The order signed last week effectively banned trans athletes from participating in girls and women’s teams and directed the Education Department to investigate schools that did not comply with and withdraw federal funds from schools. This is one of several orders Mr. Trump has tried to back down the administration’s approval of trans Americans.
In the lawsuit, two teenagers called Trump’s actions “a broad intention to deny legal protections for trans people and to remove trans people from society.”
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction in September allowing two athletes, Parker Tirrell, 16, and Iris Turmelle, 15, to be in the women’s sports during the lawsuit Played on the team. The application states that Mr. Trump’s instructions put this capability at new risks.
“I play football – nothing bad,” Parker, a sophomore at Plymouth Area High School, said in an interview this week. “Not everyone is happy about it, but it seems like the people I’m fighting against aren’t overly concerned.” But when she came home from school last Wednesday, she said: “My mom told me that Trump signed it.” An executive order prohibits transgender girls from participating in sports.”
“His efforts to stop me from participating in the sports seem unusually high, which is not a good reason,” she added.
Her mother, Amy Manzelli, said Iris, a freshman at a public high school in Pembroke, New Hampshire, once said a middle school plan called “Girls” middle school plans, she likes to “run,” but her mother, Amy Manzelli, said. Even so, the teenager said in an interview this week that she wanted to retain opportunities for any sport she chose:
“There are other girls, too,” she said. “Why don’t I?” she said, hoping to try for the school’s tennis and track and field teams.
Teens also challenged another executive order that directed federal agencies to end funding for programs to promote “gender ideology” that defines it as a person’s gender identity rather than gender on their original birth certificate , whether it should be determined whether they should participate in male or female sports, or use male or female bathrooms, or are referred to by their chosen pronoun.
The court applied to the court to argue that Mr. Trump’s two directives violated constitutional protections against gender discrimination and conflict with Title IX, a civil rights law of 1972 that prohibited gender discrimination under education programs that received federal funding.
“Our plaintiffs, as well as many trans girls and women across the country, have been denied education and future opportunities,” said Chris Erchull, senior chief of staff of GLBTQ legal advocate and defense lawyer. And they family. “It’s unconstitutional, it’s wrong, we’re against it.”
Like several other challenges from Mr. Trump’s executive order, the lawsuit also argues that the president goes beyond his power by directing federal agencies to withhold funds from Congress’ appropriations.
Trans-sex student-athletes in primary and secondary schools in states where Democrats control the legislature are often able to compete with teams aligned with gender identity, allowing federal agencies to provide many enforcement goals for Mr. Trump’s orders. Mr Erchull said publicity surrounding client cases could put their schools on the list. Last week, the Education Department said it had begun investigating two universities and a state athletic association that attracted public attention for allowing competition from trans athletes.
Parker’s parents said some players from an opponent’s team faced in the fall refused to play because she was trans. The game is played with other players involved.
In another match, some parents protested wearing pink wristbands marked “XX” to represent the typical chromosomal pattern of women. The incident attracted media reports and sparked lawsuits on the grounds of free speech after responding to the Gong School District in a ban on such protests.
Mr. Trump’s order states that it is unfair to allow trans girls and women to compete in the categories designated for female athletes and “cause harm, humiliation and silence of women and girls.” According to the recent New York Times and IPSOS polls, nearly 80% of Americans do not believe that trans female athletes should be allowed to participate in women’s sports.
The day after Mr. Trump issued an order on trans athletes, the National College Athletic Association was in trouble, announcing a ban on trans athletes that banned competition at its member institutions. “President Trump’s order provides clear national standards,” NCAA President Charlie Baker said in a statement.
Mr. Baker told Congress last year that he knew that there were less than 10 trans athletes out of the 500,000 students participating in the NCAA campaign. Yet, they remain at the center of intense cultural debate, especially when they win.
In 2022, swimmer Lia Thomas joined the University of Pennsylvania Women’s Team after taking testosterone blockers and estrogens and became the first publicly trans woman to win the NCAA Level I championship. The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it hopes the NCAA will strip her and other trans athletes of titles.
U.S. District Judge Landya McCafferty temporarily blocked Parker and Iris and found last summer that the state did not prove concerns about fairness and security not only It is just a “assumption of assumption” in a particular case. Parker and Iris both said they knew they were diagnosed with gender irritability at a young age and started taking pubertal inhibitors, and then, before the hormone changes, according to opinions, this is the difference in average sports performance for boys and girls. . .
“Last year, Parker’s football team won a winless season and Iris did not lay off employees,” wrote the judge appointed by Judge Barack Obama.
The potential consequences of not following Mr. Trump’s orders echoed throughout the country. A school district in another part of New Hampshire once violated a statewide ban on trans women’s movement and had no choice but to obey Mr. Trump’s orders due to fears of losing federal funds.
Before Mr. Trump took office, the district, the Korsage Regional School District decided to make its own girl sports open to any trans girl who wants to play on the state ban because it wanted to stay in line with Title IX. It has a trans girl participating in girls’ sports.
But Trump’s recent execution order has changed and has subverted everything, John Fortney, the principal of the district’s school, said in an interview Tuesday.
The new government’s interpretation of Title IX is that in this law, “gender” refers to whether a person was born male or female, rather than the person’s gender identity. Defining this in this way means the district suddenly fails to meet Title IX, forcing the district to reject trans girls from its women’s team and change “our internal processes and internal expectations.”
“It’s like speed,” he said. “You say you’re going to drive the speed limit and then the speed limit is from 70 to 55, so you’re going to follow it. You might not like it, but you’re going to follow it.”
Mr Fortney said he hopes that trans athletes in the area will be able to join the school’s track and field team in the spring to participate in sports with a degree of comfort. That team is co-educational.
“When you look at how teenagers learn to deal with failures and victory, and how to work hard for goals, track and field offers this medication that is very focused and I think everyone needs to use,” he said. “You want a kid to have The most complete experience.”
