ORLANDO, Fla. — The nation’s largest LGBTQ civil rights organization filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Wednesday challenging a new Florida law that bans transgender girls and women from participating in school sports.
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation said the law is part of an “unprecedented attack on transgender youth” and announced it will also challenge similar laws in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee.
The federal civil rights lawsuit was filed on behalf of a 13-year-old transgender girl from Broward County — identified in a news release as “Daisy” and in the lawsuit only as “D.N.” — and her parents. An eighth-grade soccer player, D.N. has been competing on the girls team at her current middle school and, according to the suit, wants to continue playing when she reaches high school.