Supreme Court to decide if federal law bars transgender athletes from women’s teams

Los Angeles Times ^ | July 3, 2025 Updated 7:49 AM PT | David G. Savage

[E. Pluribus Unum]

• The justices agreed to hear cases from Idaho and West Virginia.

• President Trump recently threatened to cut off education funds to California because a transgender athlete participated in a women’s track and field competition.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to weigh in on the growing controversy over transgender athletes and decide if federal law bars transgender girls from women’s school sports teams.

“Biological boys should not compete on girls’ athletics teams,” West Virginia Atty. Gen. JB McCuskey said in an appeal the court voted to hear.

The appeal had the backing of 26 other Republican-led states as well as President Trump.

In recent weeks, Trump threatened to cut off education funds to California because a transgender athlete participated in a women’s track and field competition.

Four years ago, West Virginia adopted its Save Women’s Sports Act but the measure has been blocked as discriminatory by the 4th Circuit Court in 2-1 decision.

Idaho filed a similar appeal after its law was blocked by the 9th Circuit Court in San Francisco. The court said it would hear that case together with the West Virginia case.

At issue is the meaning of Title IX, the federal education law that has been credited with opening the door for the vast expansion of women’s sports. Schools and colleges were told they must give girls equal opportunities in athletics by providing them with separate sports teams.

In the past decade, however, states and their schools divided on the question of who can participate on the girls team. Is it only those who were girls at birth or can it also include those whose gender identity is female?

West Virginia told the court its “legislature concluded that biological boys should compete on boys’ and co-ed teams but not girls’ teams. This separation made sense,...”

[Deaf Smith]

Strange times when a mental illness is to be argued in the US Supreme Court.

[ClearCase_guy]

In 1964, the Supreme Court issued a ruling on pornography. Justice Potter Stewart famously couldn’t quite define that topic but did say “I know it when I see it”.

Now the court has a case about Men playing sports with men and Women playing sports with women. Ketanji Brown Jackson may be unable to define what a woman is, but I think the majority of the court will be able to adopt a straight-forward “I know it when I see it”. There are two genders. They are different. This seems like a slam dunk to me.

[CaptainK]

Since Judge Brown said she couldn’t define what a woman was, shouldn’t she recuse heself?

[Lizavetta]

And now you know why Ketanji pretended she couldn’t define what a woman is in her confirmation hearing. She was laying the groundwork for a case such as this.

[ConservaTexan]

Ditch boy’s and girl’s, men’s and women’s sports, locker rooms, clubs etc. Transition(see what I did there) them to “XY” and “XX”. Problem solved.

[eyedigress]

Left going after the “All Men are Created Equal”.

Supreme Court may need to dig into military drafting and how that is determined.

[nickcarraway]

Didn’t they already make a decision about this recently?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Didn’t they already make a decision about this recently?

They published this article today saying it happened today.

Los Angeles Times | July 3, 2025 Updated 7:49 AM PT | David G. Savage

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to weigh in on the growing controversy over transgender athletes and decide if federal law bars transgender girls from women’s school sports teams.

[coloradan]

You beat me to it. She should recuse.

[Paladin2]

Why wait for a year?

SCOTUS have a poor work ethic and seem to be terribly inefficient.

[SkyDancer]

Why do you need the SCOTUS to determine trans-males in woman’s sports? It’s a no brainier. Oh, wait ....

[17th Miss Regt]

Not good enough for the boys team? Okay, go join the girls team as a trans woman. In fact, let all the positions on the girls team be taken by trans women. The normal girls are just not good enough for the girls team! But you will have a winning girls team until all the other teams bring in their own trans women.

That way we won’t have girls sports anymore. The girls sports will be trans sports. But hey, that is the price of equality.

[skimbell]

Yeah, the SC isn't supposed to jack around with chit like this.
The SC is supposed to deal with constitutional issues that affect large numbers of people.
Pissin around with perverts in girl's locker rooms shouldn't be shoved off on the SC.

[MCSETots]

“Supreme Court to decide if federal law bars transgender athletes from women’s teams”

Sadly, it will probably be a 6 - 3 split over whether a person has to be female to compete in female sports . . .

[ClearCase_guy]

Supreme Court may need to dig into military drafting and how that is determined.

I think that ought to be part of the legal argument before the court. If the people on The Swim Team cannot be clearly distinguished based on gender, then I see no way that a draft could avoid women. Denmark is already doing it. Just imagine a million young American women being told to put on the uniform, they're being shipped overseas. It's a non-starter.

[airborne]

For starters, there wouldn’t be a WNBA any more.

Just guys dunking their balls in the faces of women!

(pun intended)

[SaveFerris]

Notice how MUCH of this nonsense
since DEMOCRAT Manchurian Candidate
Barack Hussein Obama and 2015

(U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar blocks "transgender" ban: A Barack Hussein Obama appointee; San Francisco)

(Transgenderism, decadence, sexual deviancy, and moral decay were all present in Rome when the republic became an empire.)

Satan chose Godless Reprobate Democrat Barack Hussein Obama very well

Now the Godless Reprobates were inspired under 8 years of the Lying Kenyan and Resident Vegetable 🥒🍆🥕🥦🫑🥔🥗 Joe Biden

All According to Plan

SATAN is using the Godless Reprobate Agendas to DESTROY NORMAL SOCIETY and the World 🌎🌍 with his old lies from Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis chapter 19

In America, Son of Satan Barack Hussein Obama and his Legion of Goats 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐 work openly and by stealth (USAID for example) to accomplish Satan's Agenda of turning the whole world 🌍🌏🌎 into a 2SLGBTQ+ Version of Sodom and Gomorrah from Genesis chapter 19.

We ARE in the Days of Lot, just as prophesied by Jesus Christ Himself.

All According to SATAN'S Plan

Rainbow White House happened on Friday, June 26, 2015 - turning the White House into a Godless Reprobate Abomination



Do NO harm, Christians, but REJECT this
Godless Reprobate Agenda.
(For the thread)



This LGBTQ+ metastasizing cancer is all over our Society - AND the WORLD too 🌏🌎🌍 - Which is why I preach (and pray 🙏🛐🙏✝️🙏 others will SHARE the images and the SCRIPTURES (for the thread)

[vpintheak]

Hoping for 6-3, but may end up 5-4.
It’s a crying shame our Supreme Court has to get involved in matters of mental illness like this. 10 years ago this was obvious to everyone.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

It should be a 9-0 case. It’s patently obvious that those who wrote Title IX intended men and women in the biological sense.