U.S. Supreme Court Agrees To Review State Bans On Transgender Athletes In Women’s Sports
The Court will decide whether States may ban males who “identify” as females from competing with women and girls.
Women and girls fighting to preserve their sports will soon have their day in Court. On July 3, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a bid by Idaho and West Virginia to uphold their state laws banning males from female sports teams.
Both states are appealing decisions from the federal appeals courts siding with the transgender athletes who are challenging the bans.
The plaintiffs claimed the laws violated their civil rights under Title IX and the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
Mary covered the West Virginia decision last year here.
There are currently 27 states with similar laws.
Biological males who “identify” as females have increasingly taken spots from women both “on the field and on the winner’s podium,” turning them into “bystanders in their own sports,” the Idaho filing reads. Last year, the New York Post reported a UN study showing female athletes had lost nearly 900 medals to transgender rivals competing against them.
That turns Title IX on its head, harming the women and girls it was enacted to protect by prohibiting sex-based discrimination in school sports.
Title IX has always been understood to allow sex-specific sports teams and privacy spaces. And courts have long held that men and women may be constitutionally separated by biological sex when it comes to sports, according to the West Virginia court filing.
The Court has not announced a date for oral argument in the two cases[*], which presumably will be consolidated.
Its order granting both States’ petitions for writ of certiorari was released yesterday and celebrated across X:
🚨 BREAKING: The Supreme Court will hear a case on whether states can ban men from competing in girls’ sports.
This is huge. Finally, girls’ voices are being heard.https://t.co/ME2J6MlB8u
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) July 3, 2025
🚨🚨The Supreme Court to hear a case on whether girls' sports will be protected. Whether the true meaning of Title IX will be upheld
This will decide the future of women's sports.
Finally women and girls are being heard. pic.twitter.com/lOr7lIPbcD
— Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) July 3, 2025
AT LONG LAST: Women’s sports are going to the U.S. Supreme Court!
The Court just announced it will hear Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J.—two cases that should settle the question of whether states can preserve women’s sports for women. This is a historic moment. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/rvc00rcLis
— Kristen Waggoner (@KristenWaggoner) July 3, 2025
[*]The Idaho petition only raises the question of whether its ban violates the Equal Protection Clause.
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I’d expect Katenji Brown to excuse herself from the case given she has no idea what a woman is.
Fat chance of that. It is yet another opportunity for her to run her mouth about something had demonstrated she knows nothing about.
However, she should be allowed to audit the course.
Future value to her career and all that.
Please let that paragon of judicial knowledge write the dissenting opinion. I’m curious if she will define what a woman is.
I’m not terribly confident here. I do not see how these band survive the (moronic, granted) reasoning in Bostock. If Amy can join the women’s sports league, but Brad can’t, then that is discrimination on the basis of sex. Granted that Title IX authorizes this, but an law can’t override a Constitutional dictate. I don’t see how women’s sports survives Gorsuch’s reasoning.
On the other hand, if there’s one thing judges in general are good at, it’s drawing distinctions between cases when they want to ignore a precedent. So, maybe…
It’s necessary “discrimination” to ensure biological men cannot dominate women at the merest whim of their mental health issue.
But SCOTUS has already ruled that transgerism is a protected orientation
Then the only answer is a transgender team that competes with other trans teams.
The schools that freaked at the financial implications of the original Title IX are just going to love this. Well, they brought it on themselves, so…
No, it hasn’t. There’s no such thing as a “protected orientation”.
What SCOTUS has ruled is that under Title 7 you have to have the same rules for your male and female employees. If you allow your female employees to wear dresses to work, you can’t fire a man who does the same.
That obviously doesn’t apply to Title 9 cases about female sports teams, which are required by Title 9, and by definition exclude males. If you’re not required to include on the team a boy who says he’s a boy, then you’re also not required to allow that same boy when he says he’s a girl.
Drewsome, this isn’t a constitutional case, it’s a Title 9 case. As for 14a, it certainly can’t be read to require including men in women’s sports teams; at most it can be read to ban single-sex sports teams (i.e. women’s teams) altogether. So in your case Brad will still not be able to join the women’s team, which is what he wants; instead the team has to dissolve and no one can be on it. Unless the school wants to have two co-ed (i.e. all-male) teams…
It will be fascinating to read the opinions of the leftist ladies of the Supreme Court. This should be a unanimous decision but I am not holding my breath on that one.
I’m commissioning Dolly Parton to write a sequel to her song “Nine To Five,” to be called “Six To Three.”
The non-biologist Justice, by her own admission, doesn’t possess the requisite scientific knowledge to discern the difference between men and women.
Perhaps one of her clerks can enlighten her.
Blah blah blah kagan Sotomayor and Jackson dissent
Why are there no biological women who identify as transgender males participating in male sports?
Because the transgender advantage only works in one direction silly.
There is one. I remember reading about her. She explained why she bothered, and winning was neither mentioned nor reported.
It’s disgraceful that the vile, stupid and evil Dhimmi-crats are litigating to enable misogynistic, narcissistic and predatory male trannies to invade girls’ and women’s private spaces and sports. That’s how sick and evil this wretched party has become.