Luc Esquivel, a 14-year-old transgendered boy from Tennessee (along with his parents and the ACLU), is suing Tennessee for its state law preventing anyone from participating in a sport that matches their preferred gender identity. Luc said, “I’m not usually an angry person, but it made me really angry." Luc has played with his father, Mario, since sixth grade, and in middle school, while he still presented as a girl, he competed on the girls team. But Tennessee state law does not allow the transgender 14-year-old freshman to try out to play with other boys at his high school in a Knoxville suburb. Tennessee is one of 10 states—nine of them in 2021—that have enacted bans on transgender students participating in publicly funded sports in the gender categories that align with their identities. Most of those states ban only transgender girls and women from playing sports on girls and women’s teams.
Trans Athlete Sues Tennessee for Blocking Him From Male Sports
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