sorry 2B late on this one, trying to keep track of all the breaking news in the southern states.
Tennessee Will Be Latest State to Defend Banning Transgender People From School Sports
Tennessee is the latest state that will be forced to defend its law banning transgender students in high schools or middle schools from participating in sports consistent with their gender identity, the Associated Press reported. The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee and LGBTQ civil rights advocacy group Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit against the measure in the U.S. District Court in Nashville.
The lawsuit, submitted on behalf of a 14-year-old transgender boy, alleges that the Tennessee law breaches the equal rights safeguards in Title IX and the 14th amendment. The legislation prevented Luc Esquivel, a freshman at Farragut High School in Knoxville, from being able to try out for the boys golf team, according to the suit.
Esquivel said in a news release that being "singled out" in the law "crushed me."
"I just want to play, like any other kid," he said.
A slew of similar Republican-driven bills were also passed in other states this year and before. Idaho's and West Virginia's laws, both of which only block participation from transgender athletes on female teams, were blocked by federal judges, the AP reported.
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Is there any MSM site in existence that will report these stories accurately?
Nobody is banning students from participation in sports than match their bio sex, but these headlines read as if they are not allowed to be in school sports, period.
Very (deliberately?) misleading.