Supreme Court makes ruling on trans athletes in women's sports

foxnews.com ^ | June 30, 2026 | Jackson Thompson

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The Supreme Court has established a new nationwide precedent that allows states to protect women's sports.

The justices ruled in favor of West Virginia and Idaho on Thursday against trans athletes who sued to gain access to girls' sports. The states were backed by the law firm Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), while the trans athletes were represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Cooley Legal.

In the highly-anticipated rulings on West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox, the high court upheld state laws requiring student-athletes to compete on sports teams that correspond with their biological sex at birth rather than their gender identity.

West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey praised the court's decision in a statement to Fox News Digital.

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Female athletes speaking outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. Female athletes speak outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., after justices heard arguments on Jan. 13, 2026, regarding state bans on transgender athletes in women's sports. (Oliver Contreras/AFP)

"This is a monumental victory for every female athlete who has ever competed, or dreamed of competing, on a fair and safe playing field. Today's Supreme Court decision affirms what common sense and the law have long made clear: states have the right to designate sports teams based on biological sex, not gender identity. Without that delineation, Title IX is turned on its head and decades of hard-fought progress to advance female athletes is erased," McCuskey said.

[Steven Scharf]

Hecox started college in 2019 and is still at Boise State, eight years later.

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“Title IX (was probably wrongly) focused on protecting only girls.”

At the expense of boys. With Ollier v. Sweetwater (2014), the Supreme Court made it clear the way we’ve cut boys’ sport in colleges will be coming to high schools.

Once you eliminate boys’ opportunities for anything because of Ollier’s Title IX rules, boys will claim to be girls just to play because the government has destroyed boys’ opportunities, just as planned.

They won’t admit it, but Ollier will cut football, band, and everything else to push girls sport and dance teams replacing marching bands, and schools with have 300 activities for girls and 0 for boys. And when boys are forced to play as girls once Democrats pass laws, boys will be asking what has happened to their rights.