Legalized trans discrimination.
The Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS) ruled that American states are allowed to exclude transgender girls and women from competing in sports for those who were assigned female at birth.
This ruling centered on the case of two transgender women: Lindsay Hecox, a college student in Idaho, and Becky Pepper-Jackson, a 15-year-old high school student from West Virginia. In the case of Hecox, the college student sued Idaho for it to overturn its 2020 first-in-the-nation law banning trans woman and girls from female sports team. Meanwhile, Pepper-Jackson challenged West Virginia’s law since she already underwent gender-affirming treatment at a young age, did not experience male puberty, and thus enjoyed no unfair advantage.
Lower courts sided with them, which led the case to the SCOTUS.
This time, in a 6-3 decision, the SCOTUS ruled that banning transgender women and girls from competing in sports is acceptable since this does not violate Title IX, a civil rights law prohibiting discrimination in education.
Republican SCOTUS justice Brett Kavanaugh, whose placement in the SCOTUS was plagued by allegations of rape, wrote for the court, stating that “states may maintain women’s and girls’ sports for biological females”.
The NCAA and the US Olympic and Paralympic Committees already ban transgender women from women’s sports, also to “support” the executive order signed by Donald Trump, the first American president who is a convicted criminal, to bar trans people’s participation in sports.
