The Supreme Court on Thursday said West Virginia officials cannot enforce a law that bans transgender athletes from competing on female sports teams.
from competing on female sports teams against a 12-year-old transgender girl, turning down a request from state GOP officials to lift a lower court's order blocking the law while proceedings continue.
At the center of the dispute is a state law known as the Save Women's Sports Act, which was enacted in April 2021 and bars transgender public school students from playing on girls' sports teams. The law permits students to play on athletics teams based on their biological sex and defines"male" and"female" by a student's"reproductive biology and genetics at birth.
A federal district court in July 2021 temporarily stopped school officials in West Virginia from enforcing the law against Pepper-Jackson, finding the law's application would likely violate the Constitution and Title IX. But in January, U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin did an about-face andPepper-Jackson appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, and a divided panel of judges
State attorneys also claimed the 4th Circuit's decision undermines equal protection, as the decision harms biological female athletes who will continue to be displaced as long as biological males join women's sport teams. Instead, they note that Pepper-Jackson wasn't fast enough to qualify for girls' running events in the spring 2022 season and instead participated in the shot put and discus. Pepper-Jackson"consistently finishes at the back of the pack," her lawyers pointed out.
Pepper-Jackson's lawyers also argue West Virginia's ban is"not only a stark departure" from the state's prior policy, under which transgender students could participate on sports teams consistent with their gender identity if their school allowed it, but also at odds with policies governing other elite sporting organizations such as the International Olympic Committee and National Collegiate Athletics Association.
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