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Appeals court overturns West Virginia law banning transgender girls from sports teams
CBS ^ | 4/16/24 | CBS/AP

Posted on 04/16/2024 11:52:37 AM PDT by DallasBiff

A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned the West Virginia law banning transgender girls from playing on girls' sports teams, finding that it violates Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools. The ruling comes amid a wave of anti-trans legislation cropping up across the country, as well as efforts to fight back against it.

The ban in West Virginia was originally signed into law by Gov. Jim Justice in 2021, and introduced as the "Save Women's Sports Act." It required that any official or unofficial school-sanctioned event involving athletics determine each athlete's participation in the event "based on the athlete's biological sex as indicated on the athlete's original birth certificate issued at the time of birth," effectively barring transgender students from participating.

The ruling from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the law cannot lawfully be applied to a 13-year-old girl who has been taking puberty-blocking medication and publicly identified as a girl since she was in the third grade.

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To: DallasBiff
Here, I fixed the headline:

“Appeals court overturns West Virginia law banning transgender girls boys from girls’ sports teams”

21 posted on 04/16/2024 1:27:14 PM PDT by Allegra (Less propaganda would be appreciated. )
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To: DallasBiff

Clarence Thomas has long been a proponent of “natural law”. Demanding that the world accept a person as a different sex from how he/she/it was born should be a clear violation of natural law. We are how God made us, not how we wish to imagine ourselves.


22 posted on 04/16/2024 1:30:22 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: DiogenesLamp

I’m guessing that Toby Heytens is an Obama pick. IIRC correctly, Obama packed the 4th Circuit during his reign of error.


23 posted on 04/16/2024 1:32:02 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Women do not have the same drive as men to protect...or hormones that make them more aggressive.
Partly because men are NATURALLY stronger..and partly because women ()girls) would rather have tea parties than say,wrestle.


24 posted on 04/16/2024 1:41:14 PM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in 5.)
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To: Right Brother

I’m not sure if those things still do, but if they do, someone needs to do what we do to young bulls out here on the farm in central Kansas that we don’t want to become breeding bulls: put a rubber band around their sack until they become steers. Those steers, btw, become steaks and roasts and hamburger!


25 posted on 04/16/2024 1:42:09 PM PDT by kawhill (kawhill)
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To: DallasBiff

Since SCOTUS made a ruling protecting girls in Idaho, I suspect this will be overturned.


26 posted on 04/16/2024 1:46:02 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: norcal joe

Seems so.

All a boy has to do is say “I identify as a girl.”


27 posted on 04/16/2024 1:49:50 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction (Vim vi repellere licet)
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To: DallasBiff

“The left is against natural law.”

Um....

the left is against God and everything God has created. So, yeah. And this is news to anyone?


28 posted on 04/16/2024 2:11:11 PM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: DallasBiff

They pick on young ladies beca7se they can be shamed into shutting up.


29 posted on 04/16/2024 2:18:36 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I’m guessing that Toby Heytens is an Obama pick. IIRC correctly, Obama packed the 4th Circuit during his reign of error.

It surprises me not at all that one idiot has led to another.

30 posted on 04/16/2024 2:34:52 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DallasBiff

Baseball bats and masks, defend the ladies boys. Any phony female gets the Nancy Kerrigan treatment. Let the Feds send in the FBI to force ladies to shower and play sports with ladeez.


31 posted on 04/16/2024 2:39:58 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: faucetman

Actually, you are correct, have teams, but allow anyone to play. If the girls can’t compete with the boys tough, not matter if they are organic, or altered, I can just see my HS locker room full of boys born in the 1950’s snapping towels and grabbing mammaries of the ladeez. They would not have the testicles, literally, to compete with the young men of my era. They would be used and abused like a D Derby car.


32 posted on 04/16/2024 2:46:18 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: adorno
That way, transsexuals will overwhelm girls’ sports teams, and girls’ sports will disappear.

Are there enough trannies to accomplish that? I think the overwhelming majority of male athletes would not even consider competing against females. Am I wrong?

33 posted on 04/16/2024 5:15:32 PM PDT by TChad
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