Biden admin withdraws support for lawsuit attacking trans girls in sports filed under Trump

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The Department of Justice has withdrawn support from a hate group’s anti-transgender lawsuit now that Joe Biden is president.

“The government has reconsidered the matter,” said Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham in a document withdrawing a statement of interest in the lawsuit filed under the Trump administration.

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The lawsuit was filed by the families of three cisgender students in Connecticut with help from the Southern Poverty Law Center designated hate group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).

The lawsuit alleged that the state’s athletic governing body – the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) – was violating Title IX’s ban on discrimination “on the basis of sex” in education by allowing transgender girls to compete in sports.

Their argument is that…

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