他们起诉，要求阻止一项禁止跨性别女孩参加女子体育运动队的选举倡议，称该措施具有歧视性，并警告这将导致对女性运动员进行“侵入性”的生殖器检查。
have sued to block a ballot initiative banning transgender girls from women's sports teams, calling the measure discriminatory and warning it would lead to "invasive" genital examinations for female athletes.
上周，这个坚定的民主党州选民通过了第638号倡议，这是美国中期选举“蓝色浪潮”中LGBTQ+权利的重大挫折。内布拉斯加州、科罗拉多州和亚利桑那州通过了类似的反跨性别体育禁令，不过倡导者表示，华盛顿州的政策尤其极端，因为它要求所有想参加团队运动的女孩进行医学性别验证。
Last week, voters in the solidly Democratic state passed Initiative 638 major setback for LGBTQ+ rights amid the "blue wave" of the US midterm elections. Nebraska, Colorado and Arizona adopted similar anti-trans sports bans, though advocates say Washington state's policy is particularly extreme due to its medical sex verification requirement for all girls who want to play team sports.
这起诉讼于周一在州法院提起，原告包括跨性别和顺性别女孩的家长、非营利华盛顿州倡导组织TransFamilies以及教师工会华盛顿州教育协会。他们由华盛顿州美国公民自由联盟、致力于反对性别歧视的组织Legal Voice以及当地律所Pacifica Law Group代表。
The lawsuit was filed in state court on Monday by parents of trans and cisgender girls; TransFamilies, a non-profit Washington advocacy group; and the Washington Education Association, the teachers' union. They are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington; Legal Voice, a group that fights gender discrimination; and Pacifica Law Group, a local firm.
华盛顿州的这项措施规定，女孩在加入女子运动队前，必须提供医疗服务提供者出具的性别证明文件，可以通过激素或基因检测，或对其“生殖解剖结构”进行检查来证明。该政策不适用于男孩。
Washington's measure mandates that girls provide documentation from medical providers about their sex before they join women's teams, either through hormone or genetic tests or examinations of their "reproductive anatomy". The policy does not apply to boys.
医生、教师和家长对迫使女孩接受生殖器检查的可能性表示担忧，称执行机制是严重的隐私侵犯，并会劝阻所有女孩参加体育运动。支持者认为，由保守派对冲基金经理布赖恩·海伍德资助的这项禁令，保护了女子体育的“公平性”。
Doctors, teachers and parents have raised alarms about the potential of forcing girls to undergo genital exams, saying the enforcement mechanism was a severe privacy violation and would discourage all girls from joining sports. Proponents argue that the ban, funded by Brian Heywood a conservative hedge fund manager, protects "fairness" in girls' sports.
该法律适用于小学、初中和高中学生。学校官员今年早些时候表示，他们全州仅知晓大约10名跨性别体育运动员，占该州20万名学生运动员的极小部分。
The law applies to students in elementary, middle and high school. School officials said earlier this year that they were aware of only about 10 trans sports players statewide, a tiny fraction of the state's 200,000 student athletes.
该诉讼认为，该措施违反华盛顿州宪法，包括侵犯学生隐私，以及仅适用于女孩而违反平等权利保护。该禁令还违反保护跨性别者的反歧视法，诉讼称。
The suit argues that the measure violates Washington's constitution, including by infringing on students' privacy and violating equal rights protections by only applying to girls. The ban also violates an anti-discrimination law that protects trans people, the suit says.
Legal Voice执行主任蒂芙妮·列侬指出，华盛顿州过去20年来一直允许跨性别青少年参加与其性别认同相符的运动队：“这是一个被制造出来的问题，旨在制造恐慌。他们想向跨性别青少年传递这样的信息：我们不希望你们出现在公众视野中，并且愿意采取极端措施，确保足够多的人感到恐惧而逃跑躲藏。”原告包括一名17岁跨性别女孩的家长，该女孩在高中参加团队运动，担心根据该措施被公开身份并被逐出体育运动。两名顺性别女运动员的家长也加入了诉讼，称他们反对“侵入性”的性别验证要求。
Tiffani Lennon, executive director of Legal Voice, noted that Washington state has for 20 years allowed trans youth to play on teams that match their gender: "This is a fabricated issue being manufactured to create alarm. They're intending to send a message to trans youth that we don't want you visible, and they are willing to put in place really extreme measures to ensure that it terrifies enough people to go run and hide." The plaintiffs include a parent of a 17-year-old trans girl who participates in team sports at her high school and who fears being outed and kicked out of athletics under the measure. Parents of two cisgender female athletes also joined the suit, saying they oppose the "intrusive" sex verification requirements.
“如果你真的想要体育公平，为什么要让女孩接受性别验证？为什么要劝阻女孩参加体育运动？”列侬说。“这显然是歧视性的。”周一，西雅图公立学校董事会也投票赞成允许学区对该禁令采取法律行动，该禁令将于12月3日生效。
"If you really want fairness in sports, why would you subject girls to sex verification? Why would you dissuade girls from participating in sports?" said Lennon. "It's clearly discriminatory." On Monday, the Seattle public schools board of directors also voted in favor of allowing the district to take legal action against the ban, which is due to go into effect on 3 December.