INDIANAPOLIS — A lawsuit challenging an Indiana law that prohibits transgender students from competing in girls school sports was dropped Wednesday just weeks before it was to be heard by a federal appeals court.
A federal judge in Indianapolis ruled against the law in August and granted a preliminary injunction allowing a 10-year-old transgender girl to rejoin her school’s all-girls softball team in the Indianapolis Public Schools district.
But the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, which represented the girl, and the state attorney general’s office filed court documents Wednesday to dismiss the lawsuit because the girl recently enrolled in a charter school not operated by the district.