Toma, Petersen challenge transgender lawsuit ruling

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Toma, Petersen challenge transgender lawsuit ruling

The state’s top two Republican lawmakers are asking a federal appeals court to protect them from having to explain their motives in promoting and voting to ban transgender girls from participating in girls’ sports. The attorney for House Speaker Ben Toma and Senate President Warren Petersen contends that U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer Zipps got it wrong when she ordered them to answer questions from the lawyers representing transgender girls…