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(WASHINGTON) — The Human Rights Campaign, a national LGBTQ civil rights organization, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit to challenge a Florida state law that bans transgender girls from participating in sports that correspond with their gender identity.
The law, called the “Fairness in Women Sports Act,” is one of eight laws passed this year that restrict transgender girls from participating in girls’ athletic teams. The organization plans on filing similar suits in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi.
“These laws are telling transgender young people that they don’t matter, telling young transgender people that they don’t exist,” HRC President Alphonso David