On Friday a group of transgender and nonbinary people filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new Florida law requiring people to use public restrooms that align with their sex assigned at birth, asking a judge to block enforcement before an upcoming march in Orlando. The lawsuit, filed in the federal Middle District of Florida, alleged that the restroom restrictions are discriminatory and violate free-speech rights. The case is the latest in a series of challenges to laws and rules approved by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration and the Legislature targeting trans people and the LGBTQ+ community. Friday’s challenge centers on a law (HB 1521), passed this spring, that applies to the use of restrooms and changing facilities at schools and “public buildings,” such as airports, state and local government buildings, prisons and jails. People who use restrooms or changing facilities that differ from their sex assigned at birth and refuse to leave when asked to do so could be charged with criminal trespass. The plaintiffs’ lawyers wrote, "This view of sex and gender causes irreparable harm for transgender, gender nonconforming and certain intersex people (TGNCI people) because this community’s identities may differ from their sex assigned at birth. They further wrote when TGNCI people walk, talk, dress or use an affirming restroom, they communicate their gender identity in a way that society can understand." According to the lawsuit, an estimated 1,000 people are expected to attend the National March to Protect Trans Youth in downtown Orlando on October 7. #Trans Rights