2 Trans Athletes Drop New Hampshire Sports Ban Suit After 6-3 Supreme Court Ruling
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Updated · Fox News · Jul 9
2 Trans Athletes Drop New Hampshire Sports Ban Suit After 6-3 Supreme Court Ruling
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 9
Summary
Parker Tirrell and Iris Turmelle dismissed their challenge to New Hampshire’s girls’ sports law after the Supreme Court’s June 30 Title IX ruling left little path to overturn state bans.
The 6-3 decision in West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox upheld laws requiring school athletes to compete based on biological sex at birth rather than gender identity.
The teens sued in 2024, then expanded the case in 2025 to target Trump administration executive orders, arguing the measures discriminated against transgender girls under equal protection and Title IX.
Alliance Defending Freedom, which represented female athletes allowed to intervene in the case, said the dismissal clears New Hampshire to keep enforcing protections for girls’ sports.
The fight is not over nationally: 23 states still lack such bans, and some—including California, New York and Massachusetts—have laws protecting trans athletes’ participation.