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 children's 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. A spokesperson from each did not immediately return email requests for comment.
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