The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld two state laws that ban transgender athletes from competing in sporting events for girls and women at public schools—the latest blow the conservative-majority Court has dealt to transgender rights.
In a 6-3 decision that split along ideological lines in both a case out of West Virginia and one out of Idaho, the Justices ruled that state schools can restrict women’s and girls’ sports for biological females under Title IX, a federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in federally-funded educational programs.
The cases before the Supreme Court stemmed from lawsuits that a now-high school student in West Virginia and a college student in Idaho filed against their states’ respective laws, which mandate that athletes must compete in sporting events based on their “biological sex.”
Transgender rights suffered another major loss in the Supreme Court last year, when the justices upheld a Tennessee law that banned gender-affirming care for minors in the state.
Source: Supreme Court Upholds State Bans on Transgender Athletes