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FILE In this Feb. 7, 2019 file photo, Bloomfield High School transgender athlete Terry Miller, second from left, wins the final of the 55-meter dash over transgender athlete Andraya Yearwood, left, and other runners in the Connecticut girls Class S indoor track meet at Hillhouse High School in New Haven, Conn. Lawyers for several Connecticut school districts and the organization that oversees high school sports in the state went before a federal judge Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit that would prevent transgender girls from competing in girl s sports. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb, File)
HARTFORD (AP) A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to prevent transgender athletes from competing in girls high school sports in Connecticut.
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A group of female high school track athletes is appealing a Sunday federal district decision forcing them to compete against transgender athletes.
The case was dismissed by Judge Robert Chatigny on procedural grounds because the two transgender athletes in question have since graduated from high school, making the case moot. Chatigny wrote, however, that if more transgender students should enter the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, he could see a reason to bring back the case.
“Defendants’ counsel have represented that they know of no transgender student who will be participating in girls’ track at that time, he wrote. It is still theoretically possible that a transgender student could attempt to do so.
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A Connecticut lawsuit that sought to stip trans teens of the right to compete in school sports has been scrapped by a federal judge. (Stock photograph via Elements Envato)
A US federal judge binned a cruel Connecticut lawsuit that sought to ban trans girls from competing in high school sports on Sunday (25 April).
The 2020 suit saw a band of cisgender students claim that they face “unfair competition” from two trans teens competing in track and field events alongside them.
The plaintiffs sought to scrap guidelines from the state’s high school sports regulator, Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC), that permit trans people to correctly compete according to their gender.
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