Transgender athletes open up about suing Trump administration over bans from girls sports

Washington Democratic state Rep. Kristine Reeves compared legislation banning trans athletes from women’s sports to racial segregation during a state House Education Committee session. 

Two teenage transgender athletes who are suing President Donald Trump's administration told The Associated Press about their motivation for the lawsuit. 

The two New Hampshire teens, 16-year-old Parker Tirrell and 15-year-old Iris Turmelle, are biological males who have played on girls sports teams for their respective high schools. They and their families originally filed a lawsuit last year to challenge a New Hampshire law prohibiting transgender athletes from participating in girls sports.

In February, after Trump signed an executive order banning trans athletes from girls sports nationwide, a federal judge granted a request to add the Trump administration to the list of defendants.

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Tirrell played girls soccer at Plymouth Regional High School in the fall.

"I just feel like I’m being singled out right now by lawmakers and Trump and just the whole legislative system for something that I can’t control," Tirrell said. "It just doesn’t feel great. It’s not great. It feels like they just don’t want me to exist. But I’m not going to stop existing just because they don’t want me to."

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Turmelle, who attends Pembroke Academy, is interested in joining that school’s girls tennis and track teams, according to court filings. 

"We don’t go to sleep in the day and go out at night and drink people’s blood. We don’t hate sunlight. We’re human, just like you," Turmelle said. 

Turmelle spoke