Two lawsuits about transgender girl athletes are being heard in federal court in New Hampshire. One case is challenging a state ban at schools and the other is about the right to protest transgender athletes' participation on girls teams.

School district leaders have voiced uncertainty about how to comply with a state statute that may lead them afoul of federal law.

The first case is about two transgender teen girls, one who played soccer on the girls team this fall and the other who plans on participating on the track team this winter. A federal judge ruled earlier this year that the teens can try out for and play on girls school sports teams as they seek to overturn the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act on behalf of all transgender students in New Hampshire.

Two lawsuits about transgender girl athletes — one challenging a state ban at schools and the other on the right to protest transgender athletes' participation on girls teams — were the subject of hearings in federal court in New Hampshire on Thursday.

On Thursday morning, the state Senate Special Committee on the Protection of Women’s Sports met to continue its investigation about the policies implemented by athletic associations, schools, colleges and universities to “protect women’s sports.