Two teenagers transgender Athlete sued President Donald Trump’s administration told the Associated Press that they were motivated to file a lawsuit.
Two New Hampshire teenagers, Parker Tirrell, 16, and Iris Turmelle, 15, are biological males who have played for their respective high schools on the girls’ sports team. They and their families initially filed a lawsuit last year Challenge New Hampshire law to prohibit trans athletes from participating in women’s sports.
In February, after Trump signed an executive order banning transgender athletes in the nation’s women’s sports, a federal judge approved a request to add the Trump administration to the defendants’ list.
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Tirrell played girls’ soccer in the fall at Plymouth Area High School.
“I just feel like I’m picked out by lawmakers and Trump right now, just the whole legislative system of things that I can’t control,” Tiller said. “It doesn’t feel good. It’s not great. It feels like they just don’t want me to exist. But I won’t stop being there because they don’t want me to.”
Turmelle, who attended Pembroke College, is interested in joining the school’s women’s tennis and track and field teams, according to court documents.
“We don’t go to bed during the day, we go out to drink human blood at night. We don’t hate sunshine. Just like you, we are humans.”
Turmelle talks about not becoming a softball team in the school.
“Just that’s an unfair argument, I just want to point out that I’m not on the softball team,” Toumel said. “If that’s unfair, then I don’t know what you want.”
New Hampshire federal judge Landya McCafferty was appointed as her seat in 2013 by former President Barack Obama Preliminary ban On September 10, Tirrell was allowed to play for the Plymouth area and bypassed state laws to remove trans athletes from women’s sports.
Before Trump’s executive order came into effect, New Hampshire was already one of 25 states, which had already enacted laws to enforce similar bans.
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Tirrell and Turmelle’s lawyers argued Trump’s executive order, and Executive Order of January 20 This prohibits federal funds from being used to “promote gender ideology” to discriminate against teenagers and all transgender subjects for violating federal equal protection guarantees and their rights under Title IX.
“The systemic goals of transgender people in American institutions are shocking, but targeting young people in schools, denying their support and fundamental opportunities in their most vulnerable years, especially cruel.”
The situation involving two trans athletes also sparked a second lawsuit because parents wore wristbands, referring to “xx” to mention biological female chromosomes and were allegedly prohibited from wearing them.
Plaintiffs Kyle Fellers and Anthony Foote sued the Bow School District when wearing wristbands at their daughter’s football match in September.
exist litigation They were brought up by Fellers and Foote, claiming that school officials told them to remove their armbands or they would have to leave the game.
Both fathers say the purpose of the armband is not to protest Tiller, but to support his daughter in a game featuring biological males.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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