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Federal judge rejects challenge to Florida's trans athlete law

U.S. District Judge Roy Altman has rejected a challenge to a law that bans transgender women and girls from paying on women's and girls' sports teams.

  • By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida
  • | 1:20 p.m. November 8, 2023
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A federal judge has rejected a challenge to a 2021 Florida law banning transgender female students from playing on women’s and girls’ sports teams.

U.S. District Judge Roy Altman on Monday issued a 39-page decision granting a request by attorneys for Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. and the State Board of Education to dismiss a lawsuit filed on behalf of a transgender high-school volleyball player.

Altman ruled that the controversial law did not violate constitutional equal-protection and due-process rights and Title IX, a federal law that prevents discrimination based on sex in education programs. He left open the possibility that attorneys for the Broward County student, identified by the initials D.N., could file a revised lawsuit on the equal-protection and Title IX issues.

 

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