US Supreme Court to review the Trans -Sportsmen Banks in Women’s Sports

The US Supreme Court has agreed to review whether state laws can ban transgender athletes compete in women’s and girls.

The case concerns laws in Idaho and Western Virginia, where two transgender students have won bans from lower courts that allow them to continue the competition.

As the rules of the Supreme Court may have significant consequences across the country.

This happens two weeks after the conservative court of most supported Tennessee law prohibiting gender transitional care for youth – The ruling that some supporters say that the US struck a large blow to transgenders.

The Supreme Court will consider cases of 15-year-old Peper Jacks and 24th Lindsay Hecox, which successfully disputed state bans in Western Virginia and Idah, claiming that they were discriminatory.

Idaho was the first state to pass a law that prohibits transgender athletes to compete in women and girls competitions. Since then, two dozen other states have moved.

Ms Hecox, long -distance running, took over the legal task against the law of Idahu in 2020 shortly after it was adopted. Later, she was granted a ruling of both the District Court and the Court of Appeal.

State Legislator Barbara Ehardt, who presented the law, stated that during its adoption, which guarantees that “boys and men will not be able to take the place of girls and women in sports, because it is not fair.”

But in the resolution on the appeal, the Board of three judges found that Aidakh’s law violated constitutional rights, and that the state “failed” to present evidence that the law defends “sexual equality and opportunities for women -sportsmen”.

West Virginia Attorney General John McCuski supported the Supreme Court intervention.

“Western Virginia people know that it is unfair to allow athletes to compete against women; so we have adopted this law on common sense, keeping female sports for women,” he said.

The Joshua Block of the US Union of Civil Liberties (ACLU), representing athletes, insisted that the lower courts be correct to block “discriminatory laws”.

“Categorically excluding children from school sports just because they will only make our schools less safe and more harmful places for the whole youth,” he said.

How the Supreme Court decides to decide on this issue will probably affect other states that have similar prohibitions.

At the Federal Level President Donald Trump has signed the executive order earlier this year, which was sent To ban transgender women and girls compete in women’s sports teams.

The Supreme Court will consider problems during the next term, which begins in October. The hearing date has not yet been set.