Posted on 06/19/2021 6:39:33 PM PDT by Libloather
The U.S. Department of Justice is targeting West Virginia for prohibiting transgender girls and women from participating in public school sports.
Saying the law “hinders equal athletic opportunities for girls by creating an additional hurdle for participation,” Aria Vaughan, a trial attorney with the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, said the new law also discriminates against West Virginia student-athletes on the basis of sex and gender identification, in the statement filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of West Virginia.
“The State cannot point to any valid evidence that allowing transgender girls to participate on girls’ sports teams endangers girls’ athletic opportunities,” Vaughan said. “Instead, the State legislated based on misconceptions and overbroad assumptions about transgender girls. It is illogical for the State to believe it can protect girls’ athletic opportunities by barring girls from playing sports. The harm to B.P.J. is real and it will be lasting.”
The Department’s filing comes the same day that West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey filed a motion to have the state intervene as a defendant in the case.
Eleven-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson and her mother, Heather Jackson, filed a lawsuit in federal court last month after an administrator at Pepper-Jackson’s school told her West Virginia’s new law meant she couldn’t try out for her school’s cross-country team in August.
Pepper-Jackson, a transgender girl, is referred to by her initials, B.P.J., in court documents, but she was referred to by her full name in a May news release from ACLU-WV, part of her legal team.
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Yeah, so?
Trannies are wack.
Yup, this will fly well in WV. Reporters in WV need to start asking Maching NOW what he thinks about this case.
The evil satanic Democratic Party is going to do a very good job alienating women with this crap they’re pulling
Anybody with a daughter will be up in arms over this at some point
“misunderstanding” = righteous common sense.
Wonder when the West Virginia media is going to ask Manchin how he feels about this I find it hard to believe that the people vote for him.
Pork projects or goodies. I do not care.
what does the DOJ tolerance of election fraud show?
what does the DOJ tolerance of guillotines against select
Americans (same targeted by the IRS’s Lerner) show?
.....
answer: egregious corruption deep, hated WW by all sentient.
Since the 1990s, I’ve pointed out that lgbtqwerty will eventually come down to bathrooms.
I’m a girl trapped in a man’s body, so I get to use the High School Girl’s shower.
Now.
Or you are a transphobe...
What madness. They’ll have the police and armed forces in no time. How long before I’m targeted for my political views and thrown into a concentration camp?
There is no transgender athekete ban. They can play on the boy team.
I don’t know how forcing girl teams to accept males doesn’t violate title 9. The girls are definitely being excluded based on their sex when males take their spots on sports teams.
Deep State’s War on Women continues.
Why is the DOJ meddling in state affairs?
This whole “transgender” nonsense is being pushed by homosexuals because they hate women.
Notice how women are being diminished with the implementation of this nonsense.
Department of Stupidity
U.S. Dept. of Justice misunderstands the meaning of having both an X and Y chromosome.
Well sux to be a woman these days but womankind has certainly “come a long way”.
We have met the enemy good ber and the enemy is the gubermint.
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