‘Transgender’ males drop lawsuit after Supreme Court ruling on women’s sports

LGBT activists withdrew their lawsuit against New Hampshire’s ban on males in girls’ high school sports in response to the Supreme Court’s decision on the issue earlier this month.

(LifeSiteNews) – A pair of “transgender” teenagers in New Hampshire have withdrawn their lawsuit against a state law restricting female sports to actual females, after the U.S. Supreme Court rendered the case moot by affirming the constitutionality of such laws. In 2023, New Hampshire’s socially liberal Republican Gov. Chris Sununu signed House Bill 1205, which states that grade 9-12 sports teams designated for a specific sex must only be open to actual members of that sex, as determined by a birth certificate issued at or near the student’s time of birth.

A year later, the families of 15-year-old Parker Tirrell and 14-year-old “Iris” Turmelle filed a lawsuit challenging the law as a violation of federal Title IX rules against sex discrimination, as well as a petition for an emergency order allowing Tirrell to participate in girls’ soccer practice. That order was granted while the case worked its way through the system, and New Hampshire’s Republican Attorney General John Formella joined a multi-state amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to uphold a similar West Virginia law. Late last month, the nation’s highest court issued opinions in the West Virginia case as well as for a similar law out of Idaho.

“The question is whether Title IX permits schools to maintain women’s and girls’ sports for biological females. The answer is yes,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote for the majority. In the wake of the verdict, an attorney representing Tirrell and Turmelle has withdrawn the lawsuit, which had been on hold pending the Supreme Court’s decision, the Associated Press reports.

Turmelle’s family moved out of state last year, while Tirrell has opted to stop playing soccer. “This case was always about two courageous young girls [i.e., gender-confused boys] who simply wanted the same opportunities as their peers to participate in school life,” claimed attorney Chris Erchull of the pro-LGBT group GLAD Law. “Women and girls deserve privacy, safety, and equal opportunities.

That can’t happen when males are competing in women’s sports, taking spots on women’s athletic teams, and winning women’s championships,” responded Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President of Litigation Strategy Jonathan Scruggs. “President Trump’s executive orders and New Hampshire’s law recognize common sense and track Title IX, the federal law that ensures equal opportunities for women in athletics. We are grateful this case is coming to an end and that New Hampshire is free to protect its female athletes.”

Allowing gender-confused individuals in opposite-sex sports is promoted by leftists as a matter of “inclusivity,” but critics note that indulging “transgender” athletes undermines the original rational basis for having sex-specific athletics in the first place, thereby depriving female athletes of recognition and professional or academic opportunities. Critics also warn that forcing girls to share intimate facilities such as bathrooms, showers, or changing areas with members of the opposite sex violates their privacy rights, subjects them to needless emotional stress, and gives male predators a viable pretext to enter female bathrooms or lockers by simply claiming transgender status.

There have been numerous high-profile examples in recent years of men winning women’s competitions, and research affirms that physiology gives males distinct athletic advantages that cannot be negated by hormone suppression. In a 2019 paper published by the