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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowA federal judge on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction in favor of a transgender girl who would be blocked from playing girls’ sports under Indiana’s new ban.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana sued Indianapolis Public Schools on behalf of a 10-year-old girl who will no longer be able to play softball on her school’s all-girls’ softball team. The child and her family are identified by initials in the lawsuit.
“A.M. has established that she has a strong likelihood of succeeding on the merits of her claim that IPS’s and the Superintendent’s application of § 20-33-13-4 to prohibit her from playing on the girls’ softball team violates Title IX. She has also established that she would suffer irreparable harm for which there is no adequate legal remedy, and that both the balance of harms and the public interest favor issuing an injunction,” the ruling said.
U.S. District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson said the case “raises controversial issues regarding the boundaries of Title IX and whether and how those boundaries should stretch and shift in an ever-changing world.”
Title IX is the federal civil rights law that passed in 1972 prohibiting sex-based discrimination in any school or any other education program that receives funding from the federal government. It gives women athletes the right to equal opportunity in sports in educational institutions that receive federal funds, from elementary schools to colleges and universities.
Indiana lawmakers in March passed the bill, which specifically blocks transgender girls from playing on girl’s school sports teams. It doesn’t impact transgender boys or college and professional sports.
Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb vetoed the bill, saying there is no current problem in Indiana and noting the Indiana High School Athletic Association already has a policy in place to ensure fair competition.
Legislators then returned in May to override the veto. The lawsuit was filed within hours, but the law went into effect July 1 while waiting for an initial ruling.
According to court filings, A.M. began telling her family she was a girl before the age of 4. Now she’s being treated at the Gender Health Clinic at Riley Children’s Hospital and has been living as a girl. She attends school as a girl and her fellow students only know her as a girl.
A Marion County court entered an order changing the gender marker on A.M.’s birth certificate to female and changing her legal first name to her female first name.
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Take THAT, fundamentalist christofascist theocrats!
10 year old can’t have a baby even though apparently she could but 10 year old can claim to be another sex. Got it.
That’s a dumb remark, Michael G…but to be anticipated, I would suppose.
If this human being has male genitalia, that human being is a boy. Period. No uber-liberal wishing or nonsensical paper-shuffling can change that.
This is a physiological/biological, not a theological, discussion, Michael. YOU get over it.
Do us all a favor and die already, Bob P.
Wow Michael G.; aren’t you the immature one.
I know you are, but what am I? I know you are but what am I? I know you are but what am I? INFINITY! Haha 😄
I’d prefer politics, especially JUDGES, to refrain from “Take that!” actions.
But seriously, a 10 year old girl isn’t going to ruin a softball team, no matter what gender it said on her birth certificate, and anyone who tries to blow this any further out of proportion has some very deep-rooted hatred issues, and might need some professional help.
Hate much?
We have lost our collective minds.
Agreed. Absolutely lost our collective minds.
Seriously?! Now we’re changing birth certificates to appease the mentally who don’t like their genitals? Will liberals ever stop the madness?!
cope
This is ridiculous…10 yr old boys and girls are VERY similar from an athletic perspective. IHSAA has maintained a policy for several years to address any transgender athletes at the HS level. Prior to that, competition in school sports holds virtually no merit. Any elite athletes participate in non-school teams/clubs and are subject to each organization’s policies.
Facts are unimportant to these folks, Kevin.
The cultural war and elimination of women continues. Our great grandmothers and grandmothers fought for nothing at this point! At this rate, we will be all but invisible soon.
I think that’s the idea, Terina….we trifle with this nonsense at our own risk.
Obama appointed judge…
Which means someone more qualified than any of Donald T. Rump’s judges.
Phillip P. I see Trump still occupies real estate in your brain rent free.
You too, Bob P.
Very sad but obviously the parents are the real problem here…
IF you think this is bad, just wait 20yrs from and see how America turns out. I can see a World War waged over political and moral views as this. This has become beyond ridiculous.
You really think America as it is, is going to last another 20 years?! I seriously doubt it. The White Chistofascist Nationalists, quickly becoming the minority in this country, will fall well before then.