Two teenage transgender athletes who suggest the government of President Donald Trump told the Associated Press about their motivation for the court case.
The two teenagers from New Hampshire, the 16-year-old Parker Tirrell and 15-year-old Iris Turmelle, are biological men who played on girls’ sports teams for their respective high schools. She and their families originally brought a lawsuit last year To challenge a New Hampshire law that forbidding transgender athletes to participate in girls’ sports.
In February, after Trump had signed an executive order that Trans -Athletes from Girls Sports forbidly prohibited, a federal court submitted a request to add the Trump government to the list of defendants.
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Tirrell played girls’ football in Plymouth Regional High School in the fall.
“I just feel that I am now selected by legislators and Trump and only the entire legislative system for something that I can’t control,” Tirrrell said. “It just doesn’t feel great. It’s not great. It feels like they just don’t want me to exist. But I’m not going to stop existing just because they don’t want me to do that.”
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Turmelle, who attends Pembroke Academy, is interested in becoming a member of the girls’ tennis and track teams of that school, according to the court applications.
“We don’t go to sleep during the day and go out at night and drink the blood of people. We don’t hate sunlight. We are people, just like you,” Turmelle said.
Turmelle spoke about not making the softball team of the school.
“On the argument that it is not fair, I just want to point out that I did not get into the softball team,” Turmelle said. “If that wasn’t fair, then I don’t know what you want from me.”
New Hampshire Federal Judge Landya McCafferty, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama in 2013, granted a provisional order on 10 September, allowing Tirrell for Plymouth Regional and to bypass the state law to keep trans -athletes outside of girls.
New Hampshire was already one of the 25 states with a law to enforce similar prohibition on trans -inclusion before Trump’s executive order came into effect.
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The lawyers of Tirrrell and Turmelle claim the Executive Order of Trump, together with parts of a January 20 Executive Order This prohibits federal money to be used to ‘promote gender ideology’, the teenagers and all transgender people subject discrimination in violation of federal equal protection guarantees and their rights under title IX.
“The systematic targeting of transgender people in American institutions is chilling, but focusing on young people in schools, denying them support and essential opportunities during their most vulnerable years, is especially cruel,” said Chris Erchull, a happy lawyer.
The situation with the two trans -athletes also put forward a second lawsuit after parents wore wristbands that were “xx” in reference to the biological female chromosomes and reportedly forbidden from school areas to wear them.
Plaintiffs Kyle Fellers and Anthony Foote complained the Bow School District after they were banned from school sites for wearing the wristbands during the football game of their daughters in September.
In the lawsuit Placed by Fellers and Foote, they claim that they were told by school officials to remove the bracelets, otherwise they should leave the game.
Both fathers say that the intention of the bracelet was not to protest against Tirrell, but to support their own daughters in a game with a biological man.
The Associated Press has contributed to this report.
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