A federal appeals court has upheld a decision blocking Idaho's first-in-the-nation ban on transgender athletes in girls and women's sports.
, which would prohibit transgender women and girls from playing on female sports teams sponsored by public schools, colleges and universities.The judges ruled that the ban discriminates not just against transgender women but all women, citing a provision in the law that allows for anyone to dispute the sex of a female student athlete in Idaho. That provision would require the athlete to verify their gender through medical procedures, including gynecological exams.
The court said the law “perpetuates historic discrimination against both cisgender and transgender women by categorically excluding transgender women from athletic competition and subjecting all women to an invasive sex dispute verification process.” The ruling follows a historic wave of new state laws around the country restricting the rights of transgender people, especially trans youth. More than 20 states have enacted similar sports restrictions since Idaho’s Republican lawmakers in North Carolina on Wednesdaythe latest sports restriction, overriding Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of that measure and two other bills targeting the rights of transgender youth.
“Idaho’s ban and all others like it are designed to alienate and stigmatize transgender people and we’ll never stop fighting until all transgender youth are given the equal playing field they deserve,” said Chase Strangio, deputy director for transgender justice at the American Civil Liberties Union’s LGBTQ & HIV Project.
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