Supreme Court upholds bans on transgender athletes in girls' and women's sports
Source: NBC News
June 30, 2026, 10:04 AM EDT / Updated June 30, 2026, 10:08 AM EDT
WASHINGTON Delivering another major blow to LGBTQ rights, the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state laws that ban transgender athletes from participating in girls' and women's sports.
The court, largely divided 6-3, ruled against two transgender students, Becky Pepper-Jackson and Lindsay Hecox, who had challenged restrictive laws in West Virginia and Idaho, respectively.
The court in an opinion authored by Justice Brett Kavanaugh concluded that the laws do not violate either the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which requires that the law apply evenly to everyone, or Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which bars sex discrimination in education.
The Constitution and Title IX do not require an overhaul of womens and girls sports throughout America, Kavanaugh wrote. He expressed sympathy for transgender girls and women who desire to play sports, saying their desire to compete warrants respect and that they should not be ostracized or vilified. Although the ruling directly concerns only West Virginia and Idaho, it is likely to affect 25 other states with similar bans.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-upholds-state-transgender-sports-bans-rcna261384
Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-43_2b35.pdf
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Jun. 30, 2026, 10:04 AM EDT
WASHINGTON -- Delivering another major blow to LGBTQ rights, the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state laws that ban transgender athletes from participating in girls' and women's sports.
The court, largely divided 6-3, ruled against two transgender students, Becky Pepper-Jackson and Lindsay Hecox, who had challenged restrictive laws in the states of West Virginia and Idaho, respectively.
The court in an opinion authored by Justice Brett Kavanaugh concluded that the laws do not violate either the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which requires that the law apply evenly to everyone, or Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which bars sex discrimination in education.
Although the ruling directly concerns only West Virginia and Idaho, it is likely to affect 25 other states with similar bans.
underpants
(197,887 posts)Boooo!
LakeVermilion
(1,682 posts)If anyone who pays taxes to government supported schools/activities, they should have access. Sort of a taxation without representation view.
Felicita
(86 posts)in men's sports in most jurisdictions, so they still have access to sports and can benefit from their taxes.
Many people are concerned that if, for example, a large, very physically fit male swimmer were to convert his gender and then participate in a women's swim competition, it would be unfair to women athletes who have trained for years to be at the top of their category. Unfortunately, like another post pointed out, the exclusion in women's sports often involves transphobia, especially amongst right wingers.
TBF
(37,683 posts)their fingers and become another gender, correct?
This is a process with hormone treatments that can literally take up to 5 years.
manicdem
(571 posts)Since when was it a requirement for a person to get hormone treatments to change genders?
walkingman
(11,319 posts)Most people oppose allowing transgender athletes not because they are concerned about fairness for women, but because they are negatively biased against transgender people.
Then politics takes the stage.....
A wedge issue is a controversial political topic that candidates running for public office raise in order to attract or alienate the opponents' supporters.
J_William_Ryan
(3,669 posts)Its about unwarranted fear and hatred of transgender Americans fear and hate codified by a bigoted conservative Court.
timms139
(576 posts)with people who can't accept the fact that some people are born different . The only choice they really have is to hide the way they were born to keep from being wrongfully excluded . It is brought on by views and old beliefs pounded into folks heads years ago who continue to pound it into their children's head . Mostly today it is those that are uneducated that causes the problems for these folks .
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