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April 25, 2021 - 4:40 PM HARTFORD, Conn. - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to prevent transgender athletes from competing in girls high school sports in Connecticut. The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, which oversees scholastic sports in the state, allows high school athletes to compete in sports according to their gender identity. The lawsuit was filed a year ago by cisgender runners who argued they were deprived of wins, state titles and athletic opportunities by being forced to compete against two transgender sprinters. U.S. District Cou...

The lawsuit had been closely watched since the Trump administration’s Justice Department and the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights had sided with the plaintiffs. But the Biden administration withdrew that support in February.  Conservative lawmakers in more than 20 states have introduced legislation to ban or limit transgender athletes from competing on teams or sports that align with their gender identity. Laws banning transgender women and girls from participating in organized sports have been signed in Idaho, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas. Arguments in the Connectic...

Sun, 04/25/2021 - 17:36 — legitgov Federal judge dismisses lawsuit that sought to block transgender female athletes from competing in girls high school sports in Connecticut | 25 April 2021 | U.S. District Court Judge Robert Chatigny has dismissed on procedural grounds a lawsuit filed in federal court against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, which sought to halt transgender female athletes from participating in girls high school sports in Connecticut. Chatigny stated that because the two transgender athletes, Terry Miller of Bloomfield and Andraya Yearwood of Cromw...

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20690539-souleruling?responsive=1&title=1 The CIAC, which oversees scholastic sports in the state, allows high school athletes to compete in sports according to their gender identity. The lawsuit was filed a year ago by cisgender runners who argued they were deprived of wins, state titles and athletic opportunities by being forced to compete against two transgender sprinters. The lawsuit had been closely watched since the Trump administration’s Justice Department and the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights had sided with the plaintiffs. B...

By Marina Pitofsky - 04/25/21 08:56 PM EDT   A federal judge on Sunday dismissed a lawsuit in Connecticut that sought to prevent transgender athletes from competing in girls high school sports in the state.  The lawsuit was filed in February 2020 by a group of cisgender high school students seeking to prevent transgender girls from competing in track events. The students alleged that they would “face unfair competition” from two transgender students.  The group of cisgender students filed the lawsuit against several school boards and the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Confere...