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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) \u2014 Two transgender girls who were the first to challenge President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order, \u201cKeeping Men Out of Women\u2019s Sports,\u201d have withdrawn their lawsuit in New Hampshire based on a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld state bans on transgender athletes in girls\u2019 sports and their own personal hardships, their lawyer said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis case was always about two courageous young girls who simply wanted the same opportunities as their peers to participate in school life,\u201d their lawyer, Chris Erchull of GLAD Law, said in a statement Thursday. \u201cTheir willingness to stand up to extraordinary hostility made clear the human cost of laws that target transgender youth.\u201d <\/p>\n

The teenagers, Parker Tirrell and Iris Turmelle, took on Trump\u2019s executive order last year, amending their 2024 complaint against New Hampshire\u2019s law on banning transgender girls from school sports. A federal judge had granted a court order allowing them to play as the case proceeded.<\/p>\n

For Tirrell, it meant being able to keep playing on her high school girls\u2019 soccer team. For Turmelle, it was having a chance to try out for different sports.<\/p>\n

Both sides agreed to pause the case and wait for a ruling from the Supreme Court as it considered similar state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school and college athletic teams in Idaho and West Virginia. Last month, the court upheld the laws. It also said that barring transgender girls and women doesn\u2019t run afoul of the federal law known as Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in education.<\/p>\n

One teen and her family decided to move from New Hampshire<\/h3>\n

Turmelle and her family moved out of New Hampshire last summer following proposed legislation against transgender people. One measure signed into law by Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte last year prohibits medical professionals from providing puberty blockers and hormone replacement therapy to new transgender patients under age 18.<\/p>\n

\u201cThough there may be a carve-out for people already receiving gender-affirming care, that is way too close a call for us to risk staying,\u201d Turmelle\u2019s mother, Amy Manzetti, wrote in an op-ed piece at the time. \u201cOther New Hampshire laws also seek to erase her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most Republican-controlled states in the past five years have adopted laws or policies limiting gender-affirming care for transgender minors and limiting which school bathrooms transgender people can use, as well as sports restrictions. The Williams Institute at UCLA estimates that about 3% of youth ages 13 to 17 identify as transgender.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe challenges with relocation are significant and burdensome \u2014 this includes having to find new employment, buying and selling homes, packing and moving possessions, integrating kids with a new school system, losing access to longstanding family and friends, and potential loss of income,\u201d Corinne Goodwin, the executive director of Eastern PA Trans Equality Project in Pennsylvania, said in an email.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut these families do so because they love their kids and know that supporting them with the care and opportunities they need is critical to their long-term success and happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n

The other teen gave up playing soccer at high school<\/h3>\n

Tirrell, 17, began her junior year last fall on the girls\u2019 junior varsity soccer team. Things were fine at first, and each time she scored a goal, she got a round of ice cream from her parents. But a few weeks into the season, she decided to stop playing. <\/p>\n

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\u201cWith all of the political stuff going on, soccer wasn\u2019t just about the game anymore,\u201d her mother, Sara Tirrell, told The Associated Press in an interview. <\/p>\n

It became more about preparing for the possibility of conflict.<\/p>\n

\u201cWere there any local Facebook groups where they were sort of agitating about potential protests and how do we prepare, and what are we walking into, and we never kind of knew,\u201d she said. \u201cWe were on a lot of pins and needles, especially after the previous season.\u201d <\/p>\n

She was referring to a controversy at an away game where two dads from an opposing team were banned from school grounds for wearing pink wristbands marked \u201cXX\u201d to represent female chromosomes. They sued the school district and a judge ruled against them. They have appealed their case. <\/p>\n

Last fall, there was an increased presence of school administrators at the games and bus drivers pulled in closer to the field so the students weren\u2019t in the parking lot, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cParker didn\u2019t talk about it a lot, but I think she could see that stress for everybody \u2014 for her, for her teammates, for her coaches,\u201d Sara Tirrell said. \u201cShe felt kind of bad about pulling them all into that circus again. And so she ultimately said, \u2018This isn\u2019t fun anymore and I don\u2019t want to do it.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n

Parker\u2019s father described the atmosphere as \u201cpalpable tension.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even playing on her own turf, \u201cthere would typically be a couple of police officers at the home games where there weren\u2019t previously,\u201d Zach Tirrell said. <\/p>\n

In the past, Parker also played soccer in a recreation league and could still do so. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut I think it all kind of still sort of weighs on her,\u201d her mother said. \u201cIt\u2019s the same group of kids that she plays with who, honestly, have been very supportive and love to have her on the team and have expressed that to her many times over. But I think she still has that worry in her brain around, \u2018What are other people going to say and do if I show up at a game?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Parker\u2019s parents hope she\u2019ll return to playing soccer some day. In the meantime, \u201cshe plans to be around and use her voice to continue standing up to discrimination,\u201d her mother said. \u201cIn some ways she\u2019s had to grow up a lot faster than some of her peers.\u201d<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Associated Press reporter Geoff Mulvihill in Haddonfield, New Jersey, contributed to this article.<\/p>\n

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