B.P.J. v. West Virginia State Board of Education is the first “Save Women’s Sports” bill to receive scrutiny from the nation’s highest court.
WoLF has filed an amicus (Friend-of-the-Court) brief with the US Supreme Court in the case of B.P.J. v. West Virginia State Board of Education in support of a West Virginia law that protects Title IX female-only sports teams by limiting eligibility on such teams only to women and girls on the basis of sex. In this case, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) seeks to use a middle school child to challenge West Virginia’s Save Women’s Sports Act in an effort to move toward eliminating single-sex sports for women and girls. If the Court accepts the Application, its decision would likely affect the seventeen other states that have passed legislation to protect single-sex sports. West Virginia is now asking the Supreme Court to reverse the Fourth Circuit’s decision and make it clear that the West Virginia law should be enforced. In its brief, WoLF defends the West Virginia law on feminist grounds, which rejects the ideology of “gender identity.” WoLF also argues that sex-based rights and protections cannot be dismissed based on the idiosyncratic and subjective belief about gender identity, a quasi-spiritual concept… Read more about our latest legal filing here.
Source: Latest News from the Front Lines of Feminism: 03-16-2023