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My 16-year-old daughter, Becky Pepper-Jackson, wants what most kids want: to be herself and play the sport she loves with her friends. As a transgender girl, that simple wish took her all the way to the Supreme Court, where the justices ruled that our home state of West Virginia can bar her from playing school sports with her friends and peers. I always knew that no matter what the court decided, Becky would be a winner because she has shown all of us how to love, accept and be ourselves no matter the outcome.

West Virginia middle school girls have said they felt unsafe getting undressed in a locker room with a trans boy-to-girl athlete. The track and field mates from Lincoln Middle School in a podcast said it was uncomfortable to share a bathroom with Becky Pepper-Jackson, 13. The five girls, who are aged 13 and 14, shot to fame last month when they protested having to compete against Pepper-Jackson because she is a biological male. Four of them spoke with women's rights campaigner Riley Gaines in her podcast this week about the competition protest, a video of which went viral. They say...

When you read this tweet from the ACLU, it sounds like West Virginia’s attorney general is trying to block a 12-year-old transgender girl from attending school. West Virginia's attorney general is trying to block a 12-year-old transgender girl from continuing to participate in school — and he's trying to take the case all the way to the Supreme Court. We urge the Court to reject this egregious and cruel case. https://t.co/MEfeRgtb4T — ACLU (@ACLU) March 20, 2023 Well, this is a lie. https://t.co/zs3EIsGa36 — Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) March 21, 2023 Yes, it is. By “continuing to participate in school,”...