{"id":86977,"date":"2026-06-30T14:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/supreme-court-upholds-state-bans-on-transgender-athletes-in-girls-and-womens-sports\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T14:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:25:06","slug":"supreme-court-upholds-state-bans-on-transgender-athletes-in-girls-and-womens-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/supreme-court-upholds-state-bans-on-transgender-athletes-in-girls-and-womens-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court upholds state bans on transgender athletes in girls&#8217; and women&#8217;s sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Washington \u2014 <\/em>The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled states can <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/supreme-court-transgender-athlete-bans-oral-argument\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">prohibit transgender athletes<\/a><\/span> from competing on girls&#8217; and women&#8217;s sports teams, a decision that delivers the latest setback for transgender rights.<\/p>\n<p>In two of the most closely watched cases of its term, the Supreme Court <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/supreme-court-transgender-athlete-bans-idaho-west-virginia\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">upheld laws<\/a><\/span> from West Virginia and Idaho that restrict transgender athletes&#8217; participation in school sports. The cases are known as West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Brett Kavanaugh authored the opinion for the majority, writing that under Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause, schools can base eligibility for women and girls&#8217; sports teams on biological sex.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Consistent with Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause, we hold that the States may maintain women&#8217;s and girls&#8217; sports for biological females. They may determine eligibility for women&#8217;s and girls&#8217; sports based on biological sex,&#8221; Kavanaugh wrote. &#8220;The Constitution and Title IX do not require an overhaul of women&#8217;s and girls&#8217; sports throughout America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The three liberal justices dissented from the majority&#8217;s finding when it comes to the Equal Protection Clause, but agreed with the court&#8217;s conservatives on Title IX.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling protects similar laws in 27 states that have been enacted in recent years in response to high-profile instances of transgender athletes competing in girls&#8217; and women&#8217;s sporting events. President Trump <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-executive-order-banning-transgender-athletes-womens-sports\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">signed an executive order<\/a><\/span> last year that prohibits educational programs that receive federal dollars from allowing transgender girls and women to play on the teams that align with their gender identity.<\/p>\n<p>The <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ncaa-transgender-student-athlete-participation-policy-change\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">NCAA<\/a><\/span> and the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/transgender-women-athletes-banned-womens-olympic-events-ioc-policy\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">International Olympic Committee<\/a><\/span> have also updated their eligibility policies, limiting competition in women&#8217;s events to only athletes assigned female at birth.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling is the latest to land before the Supreme Court that tested transgender rights. In its last term, the high court <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/supreme-court-tennessee-gender-affirming-care-minors-us-skrmetti\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">upheld a Tennessee law<\/a><\/span> that restricts access to certain medical treatments for minors experiencing gender dysphoria. Half of the states have similar measures in place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But in 2020, the Supreme Court <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/supreme-court-lgbt-rights-discrimination-rules-title-vii\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">ruled that a federal civil rights law known as Title VII<\/a><\/span> prohibits an employer from firing a worker because of their sexual orientation or transgender status.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>The West Virginia law<\/h2>\n<p>West Virginia enacted its law, called the Save Women&#8217;s Sports Act, in 2021. The measure requires athletic teams to be designated based on biological sex at birth and bars students assigned male at birth from playing in girls&#8217; and women&#8217;s sports.<\/p>\n<p>Before the law took effect, a transgender girl named Becky Pepper-Jackson, who wanted to compete on her school&#8217;s girls cross-country and track teams, sued to block its enforcement. Pepper-Jackson began socially transitioning in third grade and has taken puberty-delaying medication and hormone therapy. She is now in high school.<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. district court upheld West Virginia&#8217;s law in 2023, but a federal appellate court in 2024 ruled that the measure unlawfully discriminates against Pepper-Jackson on the basis of sex.<\/p>\n<p>At issue in the case was whether Title IX or the Constitution&#8217;s Equal Protection Clause prevented a state from forbidding transgender girls and women from playing on the athletic teams that match their gender identity.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for Pepper-Jackson had argued that the bans targeted only a small number of athletes \u2014 their client is the only transgender athlete in West Virginia, they said. Additionally, because of puberty-delaying medical treatment, Pepper-Jackson and other transgender girls like her do not have any biological athletic advantage over competitors designated female at birth, her lawyers said.<\/p>\n<p>But state officials said the bans draw permissible distinctions between the sexes, classifications that are substantially related to their interest in protecting girls&#8217; and women&#8217;s sports.<\/p>\n<p>Title IX was <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/title-ix-pioneers-reflect-on-laws-50th-anniversary\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">enacted more than 50 years ago<\/a><\/span> and prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded education programs. Two years after its passage, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecfr.gov\/current\/title-34\/subtitle-B\/chapter-I\/part-106\/subpart-D\/section-106.41\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">regulations<\/a> were adopted to allow schools to operate sex-separated athletic teams, as well as separate locker rooms, restrooms and showers. Schools, though, must provide &#8220;equal athletic opportunity&#8221; for members of both sexes.<\/p>\n<h2>The Idaho law<\/h2>\n<p>The Supreme Court also weighed a challenge to a law from Idaho, which was the first state to forbid transgender athletes from participating in girls&#8217; and women&#8217;s sports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay Hecox filed her lawsuit challenging Idaho&#8217;s law after seeking to compete on the women&#8217;s track and cross-country teams at Boise State University and argued that the state&#8217;s ban was unconstitutional and a violation of Title IX. 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