Title IX Suit Over Connecticut Transgender Athletes Revived (2)

A federal lawsuit seeking to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls’ sports in Connecticut was revived Friday after the Second Circuit found the plaintiffs, cisgender female former high school athletes, have standing to challenge the policy.

Ten years ago, the conference governing interscholastic sports in Connecticut decided that high school students may participate in school athletics consistent with their gender identity. The plaintiffs challenged that policy, alleging that it violates Title IX, which bars sex discrimination in education.

The plaintiffs have alleged “a concrete, particularized, and actual injury in fact: the alleged denial of equal athletic opportunity and concomitant ...