Two students challenging New Hampshire’s ban on transgender athletes on girls’ sports teams will also fight President Trump’s executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” after a judge approved their request Wednesday.
It’s believed to be the first time the constitutionality of the executive order signed by Trump last week is being challenged in court, according to Boston-based GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, also known as GLAD Law, one of the groups representing the teens.
“The systematic targeting of transgender people across American institutions is chilling, but targeting young people in schools, denying them support and essential opportunities during their most vulnerable years, is especially cruel,” said Chris Erchull, a GLAD attorney.
This past fall, a federal judge in New Hampshire ruled that the two students can try out for and play on girls’ school sports teams while the teens challenge the state ban.
The families of Parker Tirrell, 15, and Iris Turmelle, 14, sued in August, seeking to overturn the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act that former Republican Gov. Chris Sununu signed into law in July.
Tirrell is a 10th grade student who plays on her high school soccer team, and Turmelle is a ninth grade student who…
