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2nd Circuit Dismisses Challenge to Connecticut's Trans-Inclusive Sports Rules
https://www.yahoo.com/news/appeals-court-dismisses-challenge-connecticut-213120530.htmlA federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit challenging a Connecticut policy that allows transgender students to compete on sports teams that align with their gender identities. The ruling potentially opens the door to a Supreme Court decision on whether Title IX protects LGBTQ students.
In its ruling, a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s dismissal of the suit, which was brought by four high school athletes who have since graduated.
The former runners had argued that allowing transgender students to compete denied them opportunities to win championships, scholarships and employment.
In fact, the plaintiffs had competed and won — in numerous instances, over the two transgender athletes in question. That, the appellate court ruled, makes their claims “speculative“: “Plaintiffs simply have not been deprived of a ‘chance to be champions.’ ”
Alliance Defending Freedom, the conservative Christian legal advocacy group representing the plaintiffs, said it is considering whether to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case, Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools.
In its ruling, a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s dismissal of the suit, which was brought by four high school athletes who have since graduated.
The former runners had argued that allowing transgender students to compete denied them opportunities to win championships, scholarships and employment.
In fact, the plaintiffs had competed and won — in numerous instances, over the two transgender athletes in question. That, the appellate court ruled, makes their claims “speculative“: “Plaintiffs simply have not been deprived of a ‘chance to be champions.’ ”
Alliance Defending Freedom, the conservative Christian legal advocacy group representing the plaintiffs, said it is considering whether to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case, Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools.