The ACLU and Lambda Legal are suing Tennessee over its law excluding transgender youth from participating in school sports, they announced Thursday.
The lawsuit is brought by, and on the behalf of, a 14-year-old high school student, Luc Esquivel, who cannot try out for his local boys' golf team as a result of a state law banning transgender middle and high school students from participating on interscholastic sports teams that match their gender identity.
"To have the legislature pass a law that singled out me and kids like me to keep us from being part of a team, that crushed me, it hurt very much," Equivel said in a press release.