TALLAHASSE, Fla. — In Broward County, a 13-year-old soccer player and her parents are challenging the new state law that bans transgender female athletes. This law bans transgender female athletes from participating on girls’s and women’s sporting teams.
The family is arguing that this new state law is unconstitutional.
The family says that the law “ignores basic medical science” about trans students.
This new legislation that was signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis on June 1 will make female athletes’ eligibility for sports teams contingent on their “biological sex” on birth certificates issued “at or near the time of the student’s birth.”
The lawsuit said the ban is unconstitutionally discriminatory and violates a federal law, known as Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools or education programs that receive federal money.
Due to this new law, transgender athletes will not be able to compete in sports. Critics now contend that the ban will further isolate transgender students who are already at risk of being bullied or worse.
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