Transgender girls go to court over Arizona school sports ban
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The parents of two transgender girls in Arizona filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a year-old state law banning trans girls from participating in school sports.
The parents of two transgender girls in Arizona filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a year-old state law banning trans girls from participating in school sports.
Attorneys for the families, whose names are concealed in court documents out of fear for their children’s' safety, filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in Tucson.
The plaintiffs include an 11-year-old who wants to play girls' soccer, basketball and cross-country, and a 15-year-old volleyball player. In court filings, they are going by the names Jane Doe and Megan Roe.
"Jane knows this would be because she is transgender, and I worry about how that will affect her self-esteem and her confidence," her mother said in a statement.
"The ban's exclusion of plaintiffs from participating in school sports because they are transgender denies them equal treatment under the law," attorneys wrote in the 21-page complaint.
The attorneys also argued the law violates the Equal Protection Clause under the U.S. Constitution and Title IX.
"It cannot survive constitutional scrutiny and it endangers transgender children," attorney Justin Rassi said in a news release.
