SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah judge will decide by the end of this month whether a case against Utah’s transgender athlete ban can move forward in light of an executive order from the White House and a June U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting nationwide injunctions.

The case, which has stretched across several years, stems from a 2022 Utah law preventing high school athletes from participating in sports on a team that doesn’t match their biological sex. Several anonymous athletes sued over the law, and a judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking portions of it in August 2022.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs argued in April that the Utah High School Activities Association violated the injunction pausing the transgender athlete ban when it adopted a new policy blocking transgender athletes fr

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