Excerpts from ACLU’s statement about the ongoing attacks on trans youth in sports:

“Transgender athletes want to participate in school sports for the same reason as anybody else: to find a sense of belonging and social engagement, to be a part of a team, and to challenge themselves. But states and schools across the country are trying to exclude trans people from enjoying the benefits of sports on equal terms with their cisgender peers...”

“The organizations leading these attacks on trans athletes’ rights are the same organizations that pushed false myths about trans people in restrooms. Just like it was never about restrooms, today’s fight is not about sports. It’s about erasing and excluding trans people from participation in all aspects of public life. It’s about creating ‘solutions’ to ‘problems’ that don’t exist and, in the process, harming some of the most vulnerable young people in the country. Meanwhile, leading advocates for women’s sports support inclusion of women and girls who are transgender and warn that these efforts will ultimately harm all athletes in women’s sports.”

Continue reading about the trans youth directly affected by these proposed laws, statements by organizations that have fought for women’s sports, and myths about trans athletes: https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbt-rights/the-coordinated-attack-on-trans-student-athletes/