Like A Bad Penny.

That keeps turning up over and over again.

Court to reconsider Connecticut’s transgender athlete policy
AP News
By Dave Collins
February 13, 2023


A federal appeals court has reinstated a challenge to Connecticut’s policy of allowing transgender girls to compete in girls high school sports, two months after a three-judge panel upheld the rules.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City said the full court will rehear the appeal of four cisgender runners who said they were unfairly forced to race against transgender athletes in high school competitions.

The court said in a decision Monday that a majority of its judges voted in favor of rehearing the appeal, a rare move by the court. The court did not say why it voted on whether to rehear the case, and none of the parties to the lawsuit requested a rehearing.

Because of Trump there are a number of new conservative judges.

Christiana Kiefer, a lawyer with the conservative Alliance Defending Freedom, which represented the four Connecticut cisgender athletes, said the group was pleased by the court’s decision.

The ADF is anti-LGBTQ+ they are also behind many of the anti-LGBTQ+ legislation that the states are introducing.

Last year the court said that their claims that they were deprived of wins, state titles and athletic scholarship opportunities were speculative.

Now we are back in court thanks to Trump.

“As the initial ruling found, cisgender girls lose nothing from the participation of transgender girls and Connecticut’s policy simply recognizes the right of all student athletes to equal participation and protection under Title IX,” Joshua Block, an attorney for the ACLU, said in a statement.

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In all fairness I was on a panel with the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference executive director and a lawyer from the American Civil Liberties Union about this case.