Transgender runner Sadie Schreiner has filed a lawsuit against Princeton University after the school kept him out of a women’s race on May 3.
Schreiner’s suit accuses the school explicitly of informing him that he would not be able to compete in the Larry Ellis Invitational, a 200-meter women’s race. The transgender runner was registered to compete as one of over 100 athletes not officially affiliated with a school.
“I do not want to assume, but you are transgender,” a Princeton official allegedly told Schreiner.
“The actions of the two Princeton officials were in blatant and willful disregard of Sadie’s rights based on Sadie’s rights as a transgender woman under controlling New Jersey law, thereby causing Sadie Shreiner to foreseeable emotional and physical harm,”
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