SALT LAKE CITY — Two Utah families have filed a lawsuit over House Bill 11, which bans transgender girls from participating in girls' high school sports.
They are represented by the National Center for Lesbian Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah and former Utah Supreme Court Chief Justice Christine Durham and recently retired Utah Supreme Court Justice Deno Himonas. "My last season playing volleyball was one of the best times of my life. I loved my teammates, felt part of something bigger than myself, and finally had a way to socialize with friends after being cooped up during the pandemic," Jenny Roe said in a statement."This law devastated me. I just want to play on a team like any other kid."
In March, when the Utah State Legislature was overriding Gov. Spencer Cox's veto of the controversial bill, Senate President J. Stuart Adams told FOX 13 News he believed Utah would be sued and would likely lose that legal challenge. In a statement late Tuesday, two senators who pushed for the ban insisted that"biological boys and girls are built differently."
Okay yes, whatever. Be transgender. BUT. If you are biologically a male, It makes sense that you shouldn't play female sports. You would have an unfair advantage.
This one will be very interesting from a legal perspective. These students already have the right to play on a sports team. Whether they have the right to play on a specific gender's team is a different question. It may even wade into the legality of separate-gender teams.
Let all women vote on this and decide the outcome
Create your own 'trans' teams and let biological girls and boys have their own teams without pandering to the few.
Utah is overflowing with toxic people. No surprise here sadly.
If they are not 18 then it is child abuse.
Trans girls are still, and will always be boys.
I am glad they are filing the lawsuit and pissed the Utleg is wasting MORE taxpayer dollars on their frivolous culture war bullshit because without it they have NOTHING else.
So they're filing a lawsuit because they suck at life absolutely brilliant
Men ladies, lol.