A federal appeals court on Monday agreed to reconsider a lawsuit challenging a Connecticut policy allowing transgender students to compete in girls' high school sports.
All judges of the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will now hear arguments in the case, which had been heard by a panel of three judges last September.
The panel in December rejected claims by four cisgender female students that the policy deprived them of wins and athletic opportunities by requiring them to compete with two transgender sprinters. They had sued the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference , which oversees high school sports in Connecticut, saying its policy violated Title IX, a federal law designed to create equal opportunities for women in education and athletics.
"We're pleased the 2nd Circuit has decided to rehear this important case, and we urge the court to protect women's athletic opportunities," Christiana Kiefer, senior counsel at the conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents the plaintiffs, said in a statement.
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