Two transgender girls in New Hampshire began on Wednesday (12) the first legal challenge to the decree of US President Donald Trump, who excludes them from school sports to women’s athletes.
Parker Tirrell, 16, and Iris Turmelle, 15, and his parents filed a lawsuit last year challenging a New Hampshire law that would prevent trans girls from playing in women’s school sports, one of the many passes led by republicans in the United States .
District Judge Landya McCafferty, appointed by Democratic President Barack Obama, in September issued a preliminary injunction preventing New Hampshire and school districts from applying the law.
Tirrell and Turmelle now seek to expand their case to face Trump’s executive orders. The judge granted them permission to submit an amended complaint.
“School sports are an important part of education – algo that should not be denied to any child simply because they are who they are,” said Chris Erchull, lawyer of the plaintiffs at GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders in a statement.
The plaintiffs claim that Trump’s executive order of 5 February, as well as an earlier, discriminates against transmitting people in violation of their equal protection rights under the constitution of states and title IX of the 1972 educational amendments.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Tirrell plays football, and Turmelle is looking to try tennis in spring. Both played sports when they were younger.
They said they knew early on that they were girls and received puberty and hormone therapy blocking drugs to align their bodies with their female identities. None of them will go through puberty driven by testosterone, according to the complaint.
