Groups sue Tennessee over law against trans school athletes

The Associated Press ^ | November 4, 2021

[Oldeconomybuyer]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Two civil rights groups filed a federal court challenge Thursday against a Tennessee law that bars transgender athletes from playing public high school or middle school sports aligned with their gender identity.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee and Lambda Legal, which advocates for LGBTQ civil rights, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Nashville on behalf of a 14-year-old transgender boy, arguing the state law violates equal rights protections under the 14th Amendment and Title IX.

Luc Esquivel is a freshman at Farragut High School in Knoxville whose plans to try out for the boys golf team were derailed when Republican Gov. Bill Lee signed the legislative earlier this year, the lawsuit states. Lee declined to comment on the pending litigation.

“I was really looking forward to trying out for the boys’ golf team and, if I made it, training and competing with and learning from other boys and improving my game,” Esquivel said in a news release. “Then, to have the legislature pass a law that singled out me and kids like me to keep us from being part of a team, that crushed me, it hurt very much. I just want to play, like any other kid.”

Tennessee’s new laws this year also restrict bathroom options in public schools for transgender people, require notices outside public bathrooms at businesses and government buildings that let transgender people use the bathrooms of their gender identity, let parents opt students out of public school lessons on sexual orientation or gender identity, and ban doctors from providing gender-confirming hormone treatment to prepubescent minors, though advocates say doctors there already don’t do that.

[Tell It Right]

Dims have always been the ones waging the War on Women.

[MHGinTN]

There is no such animal as a trans athlete. There are fraudulent claims but no honest exhibits. There are two sexes, male and female. Trans is fraud in motion

[Nateman]

I believe in LGBTQ : Lets Get Biden To Quit !

[Freee-dame]

Kamala Harris is the person who started getting special protective rights for gender identity as a protected class into law. When the Jussie Smollett hoax/conspiracy occurred, the Senate rushed back to Washington to amend their recently passed anti-“lynching“ law to include gender identity as a protected class.

The word lynching used to mean murder by hanging by a mob without any due process. The definition of lynching in that legislation extends to any physical harm to a person in a protected class by more than one other person.

[libertylover]

When governments pretend things to be true that aren’t true really, really bad things happen.

Some examples of governments pretending:
- Burning people for witchcraft
- Slavery
- The Holocaust
- Abortion
- Males competing against females in sports

[Rurudyne]

How can you have a law against something that doesn’t really exist? At least among sane people it doesn’t.

There are no transsexuals or transgenders, only crazy and deluded people who can’t cope with reality … and being medically mutilated doesn’t change that one jot.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[quikstrike98]

Hopefully parents are over giving a good sh!t what the courts say.

[Vaquero]

Here’s an idea. Let the trans athletes play other trans athletes. I’m sure they’ll get plenty of fan attendance /S

[packrat35]

Its not hard: If you got a “dick”, you ain’t a “chick”.

[Dutch Boy]

That would be a fair solution. That will also never be allowed. It does not tear down the fabric of civilization thus it must be forbidden.

[BatGuano]

So, tell me what a “transgender boy” is.
Tell us all what SEX a transgender boy is, actually.
Is he a boy or a girl?

[BatGuano]

The enablers and the child should be put away in an asylum.
The ACLU can go to hell!

[jagusafr]

Pretty clear that these two groups were looking for a “transgender boy” [girl] in order to try to defeat the argument that it’s not fair to the girls to have to compete against a [transgender girl who’s actually a] boy.

[Rurudyne]

Or if you ever had one, while we’re at it.

[Mark was here]

In order to protect the taxpayers from lawsuits, the time has came to simply cancel all school athletic games.

The kids can find other games to play.

[egfowler3]

“a ‘transgender boy’ is” a FAKE boy, AKA a girl before her cosmetic surgery. However, she is still genetically XX.

[eyeamok]

I don’t see why this is so hard for a Judge to handle, Counselor I expect a Blood Test and DNA Test proving your client is a MALE by Next Monday at 9AM, if you don’t have it, make sure you have your toothbrush, ALL OF YOU!

[The MAGA-Deplorian]

Stop calling it Boys or Girls sports. Its XX or XY Sports. This way they can identify as a transgender lesbian boy for anyone cares, but its the chromosomes that eventually decide what side they play on. An stop intergrating boys and girls together. End it for all grades, and if feminists want to bitch, blame on the trannys they suddenly fear.