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Sam Levin in Los Angeles

Federal judge tosses Trump lawsuit over trans athletes in California school sports

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Members of Rainbow Families Action march from Bay Street in Emeryville, California, on 8 December 2025. Photograph: Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

A federal judge has dismissed the Trump administration’s lawsuit challenging California’s policy of allowing transgender youth to play on sports teams that match their gender, a major loss for Donald Trump and the Department of Justice.

The justice department had been fighting for a year to force California to ban trans girls from women’s sports, with the president directly singling out one trans track and field athlete in online attacks and regularly mocking trans athletes in his speeches.

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