The parents of two transgender girls in Arizona filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a year-old state law banning trans girls from participating in school sports.
Attorneys for the families, whose names are concealed in court documents out of fear for their childrens' safety, filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in Tucson.
"The ban's exclusion of plaintiffs from participating in school sports because they are transgender denies them equal treatment under the law," attorneys wrote in the 21-page complaint. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, who is a defendant in the challenge, called the lawsuit's logic "backwards." It's about fairness, he added.
The Arizona Interscholastic Association, the Kyrene School District in Tempe and The Gregory School in Tucson are also named as defendants. Alicia Saposnik, a spokesperson for The Gregory School, said the private school was waiting to meet with their legal counsel. A spokesperson for the others did not immediately return email requests for comment.
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