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Advocates for transgender student-athletes marched at Glastonbury High School on Friday to protest a lawsuit brought by a recent alum.
A group of seven people chanted “Protect trans athletes” and “Trans lives matter” on their way to the track where former GHS student Selina Soule once competed. They say she’s responsible for the recent wave of laws that target transgender youth in states like Arkansas and Tennessee.
“This is the track team that Selina Soule came from,” Maren Kuzmak said after the group stopped.
Kuzmak, 19, had a yellow, white, purple and black nonbinary pride flag draped around them.
They brought the group here because Kuzmak hoped the track team, one Kuzmak also was once part of, would confront recent history. Last year, Soule, Canton student-athlete Chelsea Mitchell and Alanna Smith of Danbury sued the governing body of high school sports in Connecticut and their respective school districts over having to compete against two transgender
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GLASTONBURY, Conn. Students in Glastonbury are planning to hold a protest at the high school Friday afternoon. Local organizations will be joining the students for the protest which is expected to focus on supporting transgender students.
A former Glastonbury student is among a group of cisgender female track athletes involved in a lawsuit looking to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls high school sports.