Here is the full first set of paragraph that should have been posted as the excerpt. Note it was a 6-3 vote. The paragraph under the vote info is very relavent. All nine justices agreed with parts of the ruling.
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 in 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.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3.
Justice Sotomayor filed an opinion concurring with the judgment in part and dissenting in part, which Justices Kagan and Jackson joined. Jackson filed an opinion concurring in the judgment in part and dissenting in part.
Consistent with Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause, we hold that the States may maintain women’s and girls’ sports for biological females. They may determine eligibility for women’s and girls’ sports based on biological sex.
West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey praised the court’s decision in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“The Supreme Court has established a new nationwide precedent that allows states to protect women’s sports.”
This is a two-edged sword. The ruling essentially “allows” states to enact laws that protect women’s sports. But it also will allow other states to enact laws that force recognition of males who believe they are females to compete with and share locker rooms/showers with biological females.
The lawsuits weren’t about boys are boys and girls are girls. It was about states being allowed to enact and enforce laws that didn’t violate section IX.