High school trans athletes fighting Trump's executive order protecting girls' sports in court

Trump signed the "No Men in Women's Sports" executive order on Feb. 5, which prohibited any federal funding for educational institutions that allow biological males to compete on women's or girls' sports teams. 

New Hampshire was already one of 25 states with a law in place to enforce similar bans on trans inclusion, but Tirrell and Turmelle have been allowed to compete on girls' teams anyway, thanks to the ruling of a federal judge in their state. 

"The systematic targeting of transgender people across American institutions is chilling, but targeting young people in schools, denying them support and essential opportunities during their most vulnerable years, is especially cruel," Chris Erchull, a GLAD attorney, said.

The lawyers also claimed the executive orders unlawfully subject the teens' schools to the threat of losing federal funding for allowing them to play sports.

The situation involving the two trans athletes has also prompted a second lawsuit after parents wore wristbands that read "XX" in reference to the biological female chromosomes, and were allegedly banned from school grounds for wearing them. 

Plaintiffs Kyle Fellers and Anthony Foote sued the Bow School District after being banned from school grounds for wearing the wristbands at their daughters' soccer game in September. 

Both of the fathers say the intention of the armband was not to protest Tirrell, but to support their own daughters in a game that featured a biological male. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.