Two New Hampshire transgender teenager girls filed a lawsuit Friday seeking to enjoin state officials from enforcing a new law barring transgender girls from public school sports.
The plaintiffs, Parker Tirrell, 15, and Iris Turmelle, 14, claim House Bill 1205, which was enacted last month and went into effect Monday in New Hampshire, violates their constitutional right to equal protection, based on its discrimination against the teenagers because on their sex and gender identity, and Title IX protections. The law categorically bans all transgender girls in fifth to 12th grade from participating in school sports, according to the suit.
