Transgender Athlete Ban Survives Challenge From Florida Teenager

A federal judge in Florida upheld the state’s law banning transgender athletes in public secondary schools and colleges from playing on girls’ or women’s sports teams.

S.B. 1028 doesn’t violate the equal protection clause of the US Constitution because the law’s “sex-based classifications are substantially related to the State’s important interest in promoting women’s athletics,” Judge Roy K. Altman of the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida said Monday. And the plaintiff, identified as D.N., failed to show that the law is “motivated by discriminatory animus,” Altman said.

The court also rejected D.N.'s claim that the law ...