Transgender athletes open up about suing Trump administration over bans from girls sports

In February, after Trump signed an executive order banning trans athletes from girls sports nationwide, a federal judge granted a request to add the Trump administration to the list of defendants.

Tirrell played girls soccer at Plymouth Regional High School in the fall.

"I just feel like I'm being singled out right now by lawmakers and Trump and just the whole legislative system for something that I can't control," Tirrell said. "It just doesn't feel great. It's not great. It feels like they just don't want me to exist. But I'm not going to stop existing just because they don't want me to."

Turmelle, who attends Pembroke Academy, is interested in joining that school's girls tennis and track teams, according to court filings. 

"We don't go to sleep in the day and go out at night and drink people's blood. We don't hate sunlight. We're human, just like you," Turmelle said. 

Turmelle spoke about not making the school's softball team. 

"To the argument that it's not fair, I'd just like to point out that I did not get on the softball team," Turmelle said. "If that wasn't fair, then I don't know what you want from me."

New Hampshire was already one of 25 states with a law in place to enforce similar bans on trans inclusion before Trump's executive order went into effect. 

"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 situation involving the two trans athletes has also prompted a second lawsuit after parents wore wristbands that said "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.