Cisgender Advocates Intervene in Case Over Trans Sports Bans

July 15, 2025, 10:50 PM UTC

A conservative, cisgender women’s sports advocacy group can intervene in a Title IX case challenging the Trump administration’s policy excluding transgender women and girls from women’s sports, a district court ruled.

Female Athletes United, which “works to keep women’s sports and private spaces reserved exclusively for persons who were born biologically female,” sought to defend a New Hampshire law and Trump executive orders that transgender female students are challenging in the case,Chief Judge Landya McCafferty said in granting the group’s motion for permissive intervention.

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