The Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to decide whether states can prevent transgender athletes from participating in girls and women school sports teams.
The judges said they were hearing from republican leaders in Idaho and West Virginia who defend their prohibitions on the state. A decision will be expected by next summer.
The step leads to another major dispute over transgender rights before the Conservative Court of Justice, which is recently available When banned Tennessee on gender -asserting care for minors.
After this decision, the Justice returned to disputes of the preliminary courts on Monday, in which Idahos Medicaid ban on transition operations, a similar ban on North Carolina in his state-funded health plan and the refusal of Oklahoma to change the listed sex on the birth certificate of the transgender people.
However, the Supreme Court recorded the cases of transgender athletes who had stacked in their file contract and weigh the inquiries from Idaho and West Virginia in Republican lawyers who are now involved.
“It is a great day because athletes in West Virginia hear their voices,” said the Attorney General of West Virginia, JB McCuskey (R), on Thursday.
“We are confident that the Supreme Court will maintain the Save Women’s Sports Act, since it is the US constitution and corresponds to the title IX. And above all, it protects women and girls by ensuring that the field is safe and fair,” he added.
The next term of office of the judges has a wave of laws that limit the participation of transgender athletes in 27 countries. In 2020, Idaho was the first state in the nation to ban trans -students from the competition with teams that correspond to their gender identity.
President Trump signed in February An executive order Opposite transgender women and girl participation in female sports.
“Athletes lose medals, podium spots, public recognition and opportunities to deal with men who insist on the participation in women’s sports,” Idaho wrote in his petition. “So much of what women and girls have achieved for themselves over the course of several decades is stolen – everything under the guise of” equality “.”
The laws have triggered a number of legal challenges that argue that they violate the same protective clause and the title IX of the 14th amendment application against the federal law of discrimination against gender in schools.
Many of the challenges are cited by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which the plaintiffs represent in both Idaho and West Virginia.
“Like any other educational program, school -sporting programs should be accessible for everyone regardless of their sex or transgender status. For the same reasons, transks play sports, commitment, teamwork and simply fun with their friends,” said Joshua Block, Senior Counsel for the LGBTQ & HIV project of the ACLU. “If you categorically exclude children from school sports just because they are transgender, our schools will only make less safe and hurtful places for all young people. We believe that the preliminaries had the right to block these discriminatory laws, and we will continue to defend the freedom of all children to play.”
In Idaho, the Civil Rights Group Lindsay Hecox, a transgender runner, represents who wanted to take part in the Boise State University’s Athletics and cross-country skiing teams. The judgments of the lower court made it possible to try the teams, which led to Idaho’s recent appointment.
“The petents try to create a false national emergency feeling if nothing of the sort is presented in this case. In this case, it is a four-year injunction against the application of HB 500 in relation to a woman that enables her to take part in the ongoing club and club football in her last year of college,” wrote Hecox’s Legal Team last year.
The ACLU asked the court in a similar way to reject the appeal in West Virginia, where a lower dish prevented the state from preventing his ban against Becky Pepper-Jackson, a student of the high school who throws discus and shot for the athletics team of her school.
When Pepper-Jackson sued the state for the first time because of its restrictions on transgender athletes, she was 11 years ancient and in middle school.
Both the Attorney General of Idaho and West Virginia brought Alliance Enting Freedom, a conservative Christian legal force to defend their bans.
Updated at 9:54 a.m. Edt
