Today, the U.S. Supreme Court heard highly contentious arguments over whether states can prohibit biological boys who identify as transgender from competing on girls’ and women’s sports teams in public schools and colleges. The cases spotlight a nationwide debate over fairness, privacy, and the integrity of women’s athletics.
The two cases under review are Little v. Hecox from Idaho, where a law mandates sports teams be separated strictly by biological sex at birth, and West Virginia v. B.P.J. (Becky Pepper-Jackson) from West Virginia. The West Virginia “Save Women’s Sports Act” similarly blocks transgender girls from participating on female teams. Becky, a 15-year-old high school athlete, has been undergoing hormone therapy and wishes to compete in track and field against girls her age.
The Supreme Court, now with a conservative majority, examined the arguments as left-leaning Justices—including Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Biden appointee Ketanji Brown Jackson—pushed for policies that could force girls and women to share locker rooms with biological boys and risk losing competitive spots to male athletes identifying as female. Conservative attorneys countered that states not only have the authority but the responsibility to maintain fairness in girls’ sports.
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