Trans Athlete Wins Girls’ Shot Put at West Virginia High School Track State Championship

Trans Athlete Wins Girls’ Shot Put at West Virginia High School Track State Championship

Girls can’t compete with a biological male in shot put? Who could have guessed such a thing?

Campus Reform reports:

Trans athlete swipes West Virginia girls’ shot put first place title amid SCOTUS case

A transgender-identifying competitor snatched first place in the girls’ shot put at West Virginia’s AAA high school track and field state championship last weekend.

Becky Pepper-Jackson, born a male, beat out all other female competitors by more than two feet in a sport that is often decided by inches.

Pepper-Jackson is the only known trans-identifying competitive high school athlete in West Virginia and has been at the center of several of the state’s legal disputes over whether biological men should compete in women’s sports, according to the New York Post.

West Virginia lawmakers passed the Save Women’s Sports Act in 2021, which banned males from participating in female’s sporting events in middle and high schools as well as colleges and universities.

Pepper-Jackson’s mother subsequently sued the state over the act, kicking off a legal battle that eventually made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The nine justices heard arguments for and against the law in January and are expected to hand down their ruling sometime this month.

Although many have decried Pepper-Jackson’s victory as a setback for those seeking to keep men out of women’s sports, Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Suzanne Beecher argued that the performance may ultimately strengthen the case for restricting women’s sports athletes born female.

“The developments from the state meet from this past weekend just underscore the fact that no amount of testosterone suppression or intervention can undo the very real differences that males have over women,” Beecher told Fox News.

West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey echoed those concerns in a letter to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, disputing claims by the American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, that “there are no relevant physiological differences between [Pepper-Jackson] and other girls.”

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