Trenton, NJ-A transgender woman has sued Princeton University claiming that she was eliminated illegally shortly before her career at a track meeting hosted at school in May due to her gender identity.
A lawyer from Sadie Schreiner filed the complaint in the Superior Court of New Jersey on Tuesday, listing the school along with Atlético John Mack director and the director of Athletics Operations Kimberly Keenan-Kirkpatrick as accused. The demand also lists Leone's time and results services based in New York as accused in his role of managing the official time for organized athletics events.
The demand occurs more than five months after the NCAA changed its participation policy for transgender athletes to limit competition in women's sports to athletes assigned at birth. That change occurred one day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at prohibiting transgender athletes from girls and women's sports.
Schreiner, who had made the transition during high school, had previously postulated for the Institute of Technology of Division III Rochester, but was ready to compete like an athlete without binding to any school or club in the Larry Ellis Invitational. The complaint seeks not specified by a “humiliating, dehumanizing and dignity” test against family and friends.
The complaint cites the New Jersey anti -discrimination law, except discrimination because it is transgender, with schools considered areas of “public accommodation”.
“We support the accusations in the allegation,” said Schreiner's lawyer, Susie Cirilli, to The Associated Press on Friday. “As indicated in the complaint, the individual actions of the defendants were intolerable in a civilized community and go beyond the possible limits of decency.”
Princeton Media and Athletics officials, as well as Leone's time, did not return the emails of the AP in search of comments.
According to the complaint, Schreiner originally registered to run the 100 and 200 meters races before declaring only for the 200 despite registering and qualifying for both races. The complaint says he learned 15 minutes before his career that his name had been withdrawn from the official competitors list, then raised the problem with Leone's time officials before being aimed at Mack and Keenan-Kirkpatrick.
During that exchange, says the complaint, Keenan-Kirkpatrick said: “I don't want to assume, but you are transgender.” In addition, Keenan-Kirkpatrick “also suggested that he had tried to organize a segregated event separate only for Sadie so that he could run”, while Schreiner provided a birth certificate and a driver's license that recognized her as a woman, according to the complaint.
According to his Instagram page, Schreiner said he was “prohibited” to run in an February athletics event at Boston University as an athlete not united after Trump's order and the change in the NCAA policy.
The national battle on transgender girls in female and female sports teams has played at the state and federal level, since Republicans have taken advantage of the problem as a struggle for athletic justice. More than two dozen states have promulgated laws that prohibit transgender women and girls to participate in certain sports competitions. Some policies have been blocked in court.
