A federal appeals court on Sept. 9 upheld a lower court ruling that blocked the enforcement of an Arizona state law banning boys identifying as transgender from playing on girls’ sports teams in schools.
This ruling followed a lawsuit filed last year by two transgender-identifying plaintiffs challenging Arizona’s “Save Women’s Sports Act,” alleging that the law violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. A federal judge in Tucson granted the plaintiffs a preliminary injunction in July last year.
