A federal court has blocked a West Virginia law banning trans athletes from teams aligned with their gender identity, after a 13-year old transgender girl wasn't able to run for her middle school track team.

This comes as anti-trans legislation has been cropping up more and more across the country, with the debate over trans women in sports continuing to dominate the country's culture wars.. 

For more on this, KCBS Radio's Pat Thurston spoke with Shannon Minter, Legal Director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights, one of the nation’s leading advocacy organizations for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.

A federal court has blocked a West Virginia law banning trans athletes from teams aligned with their gender identity, after a 13-year old transgender girl wasn't able to run for her middle school track team.
This comes as anti-trans legislation has been cropping up more and more across the country, with the debate over trans women in sports continuing to dominate the country's culture wars.. 
For more on this, KCBS Radio's Pat Thurston spoke with Shannon Minter, Legal Director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights, one of the nation’s leading advocacy organizations for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.

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