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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Gustafson finds that the trial court properly held that faculty and student organizations have constitutional and prudential standing to challenge the constitutionality of recent legislation regarding college students. The groups' roles in higher education are sufficient to support their argument that bills regulating student organizations and student speech will cause ongoing injury from discrimination and lack of recourse. A student organization showed it would be injured by a bill limiting the places where student organizations can register students to vote through "opt-out" fee assessments. And representative groups showed that the "Save Women’s Sports Act,” which would regulate the biological sex of student athletes, will cause injury by excluding transgender athletes from participation. The Act infringes on the Board of Regents’ authority under the Montana Constitution to determine the priorities of the Montana University System, and the state concedes that the other two bills are also unconstitutional. Affirmed.