State asks judge to dismiss lawsuit challenging Utah's ban on transgender girls playing school sports that match their gender identity
"Plaintiffs are not in a position to allege any particularized harm arising from the application of HB11 to them, or to identify any particularized manner in which the law is alleged to infringe their constitutional rights," former Utah Supreme Court Justice Thomas Lee, who has been hired by the state to represent it in the case, wrote in a filing late Wednesday.
The legislature earlier this year passed a bill that prohibits transgender girls from participating in school sports that match their gender identity. Governor Spencer Cox vetoed the bill and the legislature met in a special session to override him. To date, there are believed to be only four girls out of thousands of student athletes across Utah the law would impact.
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