Human Rights Campaign plans to file lawsuits against 4 states with anti-transgender legislation

The Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ rights group, is fighting several anti-transgender laws across the country that ban trans girls from playing on girls athletic teams.

The Human Rights Campaign, a national LGBTQ civil rights organization, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit to challenge a Florida state law that bans transgender girls from participating in sports that correspond with their gender identity. The law, called the “Fairness in Women Sports Act,” is one of eight laws passed this year that restrict transgender girls from participating in girls’ athletic teams. The organization plans on filing similar suits in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. “These laws are telling transgender young people that they don't matter, telling young transgender people that they don't exist,” HRC President Alphonso David told ABC News in an interview. “That is the message that these elected officials are sending, which is reprehensible and dangerous.” South Dakota, West Virginia, Montana and Alabama have also signed similar bills into law and at least 28 states across the country have introduced or considered doing the same.