says their brief, they “submit that all youth deserve an equal opportunity to participate in sports alongside their peers. Such equal opportunity benefits the entire sports community.”Related: Federal courts are standing up to Trump & Sessions’ anti-transgender agendaThe brief was filed in Hecox v.
Little, a lawsuit brought against the state of Idaho, which passed a law this year banning transgender girls and women from competing in school sports as girls and women.The law also allows for a female student-athlete’s gender to be “challenged” and requires the athlete to undergo medical exams to “prove” it.
A doctor, the law says, will have to examine the athlete’s genitalia, hormones, and DNA and make a determination of their gender,.