The Supreme Court will have an opportunity to weigh on the national debate about fairness in girls sports transgender athletes competing on the teams with which they identify.
and Title IX, a federal statute that prohibits sex-based discrimination.
"I love soccer. I played it my entire life. I grew up playing under my dad's teams and then playing against my brothers. And I noticed from a really young age that there was a big biological difference even between my younger brother. Even though I was two years older, he was still stronger, fitter, and faster than me,"Armistead said in an interview with Fox News Digital.
The Connecticut lawsuit involved three high school female track and field athletes who sued the state after they were forced to compete against a male and lost out on numerous scholarship opportunities, athletic recognition awards and state championship titles. The nearly five-year litigation is still ongoing.
The ACLU appealed that decision to the Fourth Circuit, and also asked for an injunction, meaning a pause in the law’s effect while the lawsuit plays out.Christiana Keifer, senior attorney for ADF, said the Fourth Circuit granted that request, allowing the male athlete to try out for girl's spring sports"in a four-page order that has no factual basis and no legal analysis."
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