Supreme Court upholds transgender athlete bans

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Tuesday that states may bar transgender girls and women from competing on girls’ and women’s sports teams at publicly funded schools. The decision upheld West Virginia and Idaho laws requiring athletes to compete on teams corresponding with sex assigned at birth, rejecting challenges under Title IX and the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause. Justice Brett KavanaughBrett KavanaughU.S. Supreme Court justice since 2018 (born 1965) wrote the majority opinion; Justices Sonia SotomayorSonia SotomayorUS Supreme Court justice since 2009, Elena KaganElena KaganAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2010 and Ketanji Brown JacksonKetanji Brown JacksonAmerican lawyer and jurist (born 1970) dissented. The ruling does not impose a national ban, but preserves similar restrictions in roughly half the states.