Readying emptyant with school homework, 2 New Hampshire transgender girls fight to play team sports

Parker Tirrell, 16 years old, enjoys his art lessons, scrolling Tiktok and work in his new job in a pet shop. But above all, the transgender teenager loves to play football.

Until last year, it was not a problem.

“I was just living my life like any normal person,” said Tirrell, who has played since he was 4 years old. “I was accepted. I had a nice and constant team that I played all the time.”

Then came a waterfall of obstacles, starting from a state ban for transgender girls in girls sports, and more recently the executive order of February 5 of President Donald Trump, “Keep men out of women’s sports”.

Now, life is far from normal. Tirrell, together with Iris Tormelle, 15 years old, another transgender girl, are the first to challenge the order of Trump, six months after having to sue his state for his ban and obtained an order of the court allowing them to play.

“I feel like I was identified at the moment by the legislators and Trump and only by the entire legislative system for something that I cannot control,” Tirrell said to the Associated Press in an interview. “It is simply not fantastic. It’s not fantastic. It seems that they don’t want to exist. But I won’t stop existing just because they don’t want to.”

Transgender people represent a very small part of the nation’s youth population – about 1.4% of teenagers aged between 13 and 17, about 300,000 people.

Heads, which you like to try several sports, has described the last two years as stressful, difficult, annoying and overwhelming – “so many laws that aim for you and your community for whom you are and what it represents and only your identity”.

A message that hopes to cross others is “that we are human”.

“We don’t go to sleep during the day and go out at night and drink people’s blood. We don’t hate sunlight. We are human, just like you.”

The supporters of the ban say that they are equity and security

Trump and others say that the ban is necessary to make girls sport proud and safe.

The idea obtained support in the United States while Trump made a vigorously campaign against rights for transgender people.

During the November elections, AP Votecast, a survey of over 115,000 voters at national level, found that about half of the voters said that the support for transgender rights in the government and in the company has gone too far. About a quarter said the support was right and about 2 out of 10 said support did not go far enough.

About half of the States adopted measures similar to the New Hampshire sports ban. Also some Democratsincluding California Gov. Gavin NewsomA potential presidential candidate of 2028, he came out against letting the transgender girls play in girls’ teams.

Trump’s order provides federal agencies with a large latitude to ensure that the entities that receive federal funding respect the IX title – which prohibit sexual discrimination in schools – in line with the opinion of the Trump administration that interprets “sex” as the genre that someone has been assigned to birth.

Trump’s administration has used the law to push against schools and states that provide transgender students.

The order is one of a series that Trump has signed the Targeting Transgender and not Bininario. The Supreme Court of the United States is examining several cases, including one of the Tennessee on the fact that the state prohibitions in the treatment of transgender minors violates the Constitution. At least two other states asked the Court to review the sentences that blocked the application of state laws that prohibit transgender athletes to compete in sport.

A group based in Texas called Female Athletes United asked to intervene in the cause of Tirrell and the spine to defend Trump’s orders. The group declared in their deposit that he has members in the United States who want to play on a safe and level playing field, “and cannot do it if they are forced to compete against males”.

The Trump administration has not yet responded to the cause of Tirrell and the spine. The United States Department of Justice declared in an AP declaration that allowing boys to participate in the sport of girls is unfair and dangerous.

For both New Hampshire Teenagers, the topic that they hold an unfair advantage falls flat. Tirrell says he is less muscular than the other girls from his team, and heated hens said he doesn’t consider himself a great athlete.

“At the topic that it is not right, I would just like to emphasize that I did not enter the softball team,” he recalled the switches of his attempt last year. “If it wasn’t right, then I don’t know what you want from me.”

Balance of being a teenager with being a lawyer

Timelle and Tirrell are balancing school and normal life with defense, testifying against the invoices that turn to their rights. Tirrell recently testified against a bill that would have stopped hormonal treatments and puberty blockers for young transgender. Both teenagers have received drugs that block puberty and hormonal therapy, therefore they do not pass through male puberty.

Head, a high school serial number, began to scribble on postcards when he was in elementary to the legislative members: “Please let me play in the girls’ teams”. Last year, she was honored by the New Hampshire Women’s Foundation as one of her “pioneering women” for her activism.

After a controversy in which two dads of an opposing team were prohibited by school lands to wear pink bracelets marked with “XX” to represent the female chromosomes in a game, Tirrell said he received a nice note from two of the players of the other team who pinned him in his room, saying: “It was wonderful”.

“We think you are so stimulating to continue, despite all negativity,” he said. “We support you and thank you. You are a great model for the girls!”

Smart, that likes to play Minecraft with friends, adding to her collection of mineral rocks exposed to her room and that tends to the family hens, now has tennis. He recently tried and made the girls’ team.

“I want to have the opportunity to do it, because I want to have the freedom to choose,” Dello Sport said, adding, “makes me feel accepted and who doesn’t want to be accepted?”