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Supreme Court agrees to hear cases on transgender athletes
scotusblog ^ | 7/3/25 | Amy Howe

Posted on 07/03/2025 9:59:50 AM PDT by CFW

Just over two weeks after the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s ban on the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender minors, the justices agreed to take up another high-profile issue involving transgender people – specifically, the constitutionality of laws that bar transgender women and girls from participating on girls’ and women’s sports teams. In a list of orders released on Thursday morning, the court granted a pair of petitions filed by Idaho and West Virginia, seeking review of lower-court rulings that barred them from enforcing such laws.

Idaho was the first state to enact such a ban in 2020. Lindsay Hecox, a transgender woman who wanted to try out for the Boise State University women’s track and cross-country teams, went to federal court in April 2020 to block the state from applying the ban to her. She argued that the Idaho law violates both Title IX, a federal civil rights law that bars sex discrimination in educational programs and activities that receive federal funding, and the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection.

A federal district court agreed that Hecox was likely to succeed on her claims and barred the state from enforcing the law against her. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upheld that ruling, agreeing that the law likely violates the Constitution.

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Oral arguments in this case will be interesting to listen to.

Will the court first decide the definition of "woman" to assist Justice Jackson in her deliberations?

1 posted on 07/03/2025 9:59:50 AM PDT by CFW
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To: CottonBall; spacejunkie2001; Bshaw; ptsal; 11th_VA; Reno89519; newfreep; frogjerk; OneVike; ...

SCOTUS ping!


2 posted on 07/03/2025 10:00:31 AM PDT by CFW
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she should have to recuse herself.

Since she doesn’t know what a women is.


3 posted on 07/03/2025 10:01:49 AM PDT by cableguymn (Can't cancel all of us)
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Somehow, I don’t thing the alleged “transgender woman” is actually a woman. It’s just more fake news.


4 posted on 07/03/2025 10:02:05 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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I often go the msn page to look at stories and mostly to read the comments. They NEVER allow commenting on any stories related to the trannies and crossdressers.


5 posted on 07/03/2025 10:03:03 AM PDT by shelterguy
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Will the court first decide the definition of "woman" to assist Justice Jackson in her deliberations?

But seriously folks. Of course she knows what a woman is. The lie was not so much an attempt to deceive as it was a loyalty test. A lot of political lies are like that.

She will deliberate based on the Democrat part line and have no difficulty.

6 posted on 07/03/2025 10:04:29 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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To: CFW

Out of 99,281 biologists in the country, I am sure the Democrats can find one who will write a letter specifying a man who believes he is a woman is a woman.


7 posted on 07/03/2025 10:05:49 AM PDT by alternatives?
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If you don’t know, you don’t know. Ain’t no help for kadisha jackson brown. Right Amy? Maybe somebody will toss in some bio facts. This shouldn’t even be a discussion.


8 posted on 07/03/2025 10:09:23 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Dr. Franklin

LOL Margot Cleveland’s comment on X.

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Now who could’ve predicted @scotusblog would go all Leftist in language as soon as Dispatch bought it.


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Big news on today’s Supreme Court order list: The justices will hear two cases next term on whether states may exclude transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s teams based on the sex they were assigned at birth.


9 posted on 07/03/2025 10:10:15 AM PDT by CFW
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Okay, so the starting vote, before the hearings, is 6-3. Where will it go from there?


10 posted on 07/03/2025 10:10:57 AM PDT by DPMD
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Lindsay Hecox, a transgender woman

Real original. Even their names are a construct. What is it's dead name?

11 posted on 07/03/2025 10:13:37 AM PDT by Kudsman (I am Coal baby! Burning for you. )
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To: alternatives?
Can this biologist help the commie perverts?


12 posted on 07/03/2025 10:15:53 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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Lindsay Hecox, a transgender woman
Real original. Even their names are a construct. What is it's dead name?


It wasn't Linda Shehascox.
13 posted on 07/03/2025 10:19:15 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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$5 says it’s another 6-3 decision.


14 posted on 07/03/2025 10:20:55 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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They specifically created women's sports for one express purpose, so that women would have their own teams and sporting events to compete in against other women, and excel at that sport If they wanted to.

If the men who pretend to be women are too scared to compete against other men in men's sports, then let them start a league of their own, and let them compete against each other. That's why they created separate male and female leagues and competitions in the first place, so that both sexes would have the opportunity to excel in whatever sport they chose to participate in.

15 posted on 07/03/2025 10:23:09 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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I was shocked as I read as it felt totally tilted toward approving transgender as reality rather than political fantasy.


16 posted on 07/03/2025 10:23:37 AM PDT by mairdie
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based on the sex they were assigned at birth

Why has no District Count "Justice" issued an Universe-wide injunction against God for mis-assigning sex?

17 posted on 07/03/2025 10:24:25 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (First, I was a clinger, then deplorable, now I'm garbage. Feel the love? )
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"she should have to recuse herself. Since she doesn’t know what a women is."

Excellent point. She admitted that on national TV during her hearings, so she can't deny she ever said it.

18 posted on 07/03/2025 10:24:41 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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There is nothing stopping the she-males from starting their OWN leagues.

Normal people do not have to accommodate them in any way.


19 posted on 07/03/2025 10:25:08 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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How could a persons declaration of gender ever impact the legal requirements of non discrimination? A court evn the SCOTUS should be limited to say that a persons birth gender is the endpoint of any discussion on legal requirements.


20 posted on 07/03/2025 10:27:06 AM PDT by anton
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