Choose Places Utah Ban on Transgender Children in Sports activities on Maintain

By SAM METZ, Related Press

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Transgender children in Utah might be not be subjected to sports activities participation limits at the beginning of the upcoming college 12 months after a choose delayed the implementation of a statewide ban handed earlier this 12 months.

Choose Keith Kelly’s resolution Friday to place the legislation on maintain till a authorized challenges is resolved got here after he just lately rejected a request by Utah state attorneys to dismiss the case. Most Utah colleges college students head again to lessons this month.

Attorneys representing the households of three transgender student-athletes filed the lawsuit difficult the ban final Could, contending it violates the Utah Structure’s ensures of equal rights and due course of.

Comparable instances are underway in states equivalent to Idaho, West Virginia and Indiana.

The difficulty of whether or not transgender women needs to be allowed to take part in feminine sports activities has change into flashpoint throughout the U.S. with Republican lawmakers passing laws to dam them based mostly on the premise it provides them an unfair aggressive benefit.

Transgender rights advocates counter that the principles aren’t nearly sports activities, however one other approach to demean and assault transgender youth.

As of March, the Utah Excessive Faculty Actions Affiliation knew of just one transgender lady taking part in in Ok-12 sports activities who could be affected by the ban.

The affiliation, which organizes leagues for 85,000 college students, has mentioned there have been no publicly made allegations of aggressive benefit regarding any of the state’s 4 transgender youth athletes.

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