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The court ruled that HHS exceeded its authority by redefining sex under Title IX to prohibit gender-identity bias because a statute can’t “be divorced” from the time and reason for its enactment. Afederal judge in Mississippi on Wednesday struck down a Biden-era Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rule that extended federal health anti-discrimination protections to transgender health care. Judge Louis Guirola Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi ruled in favor of a coalition of 16 GOP-led states that sued over the rule. The court ruled that HHS exceeded its authority by redefining...

Controversial UPenn transgender swimmer Lia Thomas is unrepentant that he took several college swimming records away from female competitors. Thomas says that he would not do anything differently despite having his college erase his women’s swimming records, and even in the face of the school’s apologies to his female opponents for allowing him to compete on the women’s swim team. Thomas said he tries to avoid thinking negatively about swimming after he went from the height of being a record-breaking success in women’s sports, to being erased from his school’s records in an interview with Pennsylvania Public Radio station WHYY.

The legal defense to "save women's sports" scored a big win in its Supreme Court battle over transgender athletes this week. After an Idaho trans athlete tried to have the potential landmark SCOTUS case dropped, a federal judge struck down the attempt to dismiss it and ruled that the case should proceed. U.S. District Judge David Nye, appointed by President Donald Trump in 2017, rejected former Boise State trans athlete Lindsay Hecox's motion to dismiss the case. The trans athlete started the legal battle in 2020, but tried to have it dismissed in September after the Supreme Court agreed in...

When two transgender Utah girls and their parents sued to stop a law passed three years ago that would ban them from participating in sports with other girls, they were going into eighth and ninth grades, fighting as they entered high school to share in the same pastimes as their peers. But as they enter their final years of high school, after three years in court and amid President Donald Trump’s second term in office, their case to run and swim with classmates who are their same gender has fallen apart.

A state appeals court has blocked Nassau County’s ban prohibiting transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports at county-owned facilities — just days after a previous ruling upheld the controversial law. The preliminary injunction bars Nassau from enforcing the ban while the appeal process plays out — but that doesn’t appear to be stopping county officials, who said they plan on ignoring the Wednesday ruling. “Nassau County will continue to protect the integrity and safety of women’s sports,” Republican County Executive Bruce Blakeman told The Post.

A high school basketball player in Washington state has been accused of bullying, harassment after she allegedly “misgendered” a male opponent who pretends to be a female. The controversy began when an 18 year old biological male was allowed to play on a junior varsity team in the Tumwater School District, alongside 14 and 15-year-old female athletes. 15-year-old Frances Staudt noticed the obviously male athlete on the opposing team during her warm up for the final game of the season and asked the school’s athletic director whether the player was a male, but was told that, in accordance with Washington...

The biggest high school district by enrollment and land area in the state of California voted 3-2 to adopt a Title IX resolution that would only allow female students in girls' sports, on Monday. The vote comes as the state's educational agencies face a lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Justice for alleged Title IX violations by allowing biological males to play in girls' sports. Kern High School District regularly enrolls more than 40,000 students and employs more than 1,700 staff per year across its 31 schools. Now, it becomes the 16th school district, individual school or board of education...

New Jersey Democrat candidate for governor Mikie Sherrill has not addressed her congressional voting record on bills related to transgender athletes in women's sports. President Donald Trump called out Sherrill for her stance on the issue in a Truth Social post on Thursday. "Sherrill wants Open Borders (again!), men playing in Women’s Sports, Transgender for everyone, and all of the things that almost DESTROYED America," Trump wrote. Fox News Digital has reached out to Sherrill's campaign multiple times for clarification on her stance on the issue of trans athletes in women's sports but has not received a response. Sherrill has...

The legal team representing defendants in a forthcoming Supreme Court case to protect women's sports has responded after the transgender plaintiff asked the court to drop the case. The defense team, led by Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador and Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorney Kristen Waggoner, filed its response after former Boise State University transgender athlete Lindsay Hecox, requested the athlete's initial lawsuit to fight for trans inclusion in women's sports from 2022 be dismissed, after SCOTUS agreed to hear the case..... The Little v. Hecox lawsuit was initially filed by Hecox in 2020, when the trans athlete wanted to...

A girls high school volleyball team with a transgender player in California had more of its games forfeited last weekend. The forfeits are the first since a lawsuit was filed by three current and former players against the school district and state agencies. The forfeits came against Jurupa Valley High School, based in Riverside County, Sept. 13 at the Freeway Games tournament, according to Maribel Munoz, the mother of two student-athletes who are plaintiffs in the lawsuit. Munonz told Fox News Digital that Aquinas High School, Yucaipa High School and San Dima High School were the teams that forfeited...... "Plaintiffs...

A transgender cyclist and Olympic alternate told female protesters to 'suck a sawn-off shotgun' in an epic meltdown just days after celebrating Charlie Kirk's death. Chelsea Wolfe was filmed mouthing off at protesters while preparing for a women's race alongside two friends. Protesters had gathered to condemn Wolfe's inclusion in the race as a transgender woman, sparking the furious bust-up. 'Go suck a sawn-off shotgun,' Wolfe said repeatedly as the women questioned whether she should be competing in the female categories. 'You're a Nazi piece of ****. 'We don't f**k with fascists. That's how we feel about Nazis around these...

USA Cycling has provided a statement to Fox News Digital addressing social media posts by transgender athlete Chelsea Wolfe, an alternate in BMX for the U.S. at the Tokyo Olympics, celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination this week. "The views of current and former national team athletes are their own and do not reflect those of USA Cycling. Chelsea Wolfe has not been a member of the USA Cycling National Team or a member of USA Cycling since 2023," the statement read. Wolfe's social media statements, made via Instagram story, included a reshare of news of Kirk's assassination with an animated caption...

Three women from Santa Rosa Junior College’s volleyball team have filed a federal Title IX complaint demanding the removal of a male player from their women’s squad. Sophomore Madison Shaw and freshmen Gracie Shaw and Brielle Galli allege that they were penalized for protesting the inclusion of Ximena Gomez on the team. The 46-page filing, submitted to the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights on September 3, accuses SRJC and the California Community College Athletic Association (3C2A) of “egregious violations” of women’s rights, claiming current policies allow men to take roster spots, invade locker room privacy, and even inflict...

Liberal author Malcolm Gladwell has admitted he regrets not voicing his opposition to trans athletes competing in women's sports. Gladwell, 62, said he was previously intimidated into staying silent, but believes that 'trans athletes have no place in the female category'. The author revealed he is 'ashamed' of his performance moderating a panel discussion the issue at the 2022 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. 'I’m ashamed of my performance at that panel because I share your position 100 percent and I was cowed at the idea of saying anything on this issue,' Gladwell said on Ross Tucker's podcast The Real...

Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell is revising his take on transgender athletes, saying he's ashamed of his previous comments supporting trans women in sports. Gladwell, 62, divulged his amended point of view on the hot-button issue during a podcast Tuesday, insisting "trans women have no place" competing with athletes assigned female at birth. "If we did a replay of that exact panel at the Sloan conference this coming March, it runs in exactly the opposite direction," Gladwell said. "And it would be, I suspect, near unanimity in the room that trans athletes have no place in the female category. I don't...

Parents and others wondering whether their local schools have biological males playing girls sports, take note: There’s a map for that. The American Parents Coalition has launched an interactive map on its website showing “instances across the country where boys have been allowed to participate in girls sports and have access to private spaces such as locker rooms, bathrooms, and showers.” The “Attack on Girls’ Sports and Spaces” map links to reports of athletes in high school and collegiate sports playing on female teams based on gender identity rather than sex. Alleigh Marre, the coalition’s president, said that the goal...

A school board meeting in California descended into explosive debate after a girls' volleyball team forfeited to an opponent with a transgender player. The players on the Riverside Poly High School girls' volleyball team chose to forfeit last Friday's game against Jurupa Valley High School. Multiple parents previously told Fox News Digital the forfeit was in response to the presence of trans athlete AB Hernandez on the Jurupa Valley team. Local parents showed up to the Riverside Unified School District board meeting on Thursday to speak out in support of the girls who forfeited and against the school district for...

These girls are seeking an injunction to block boys from competing against girls in the 2026 season after Champlin Park won the state title with a trans pitcher.

A California high school girls’ volleyball team forfeited a match against a team that is believed to include a biological male trans athlete Friday night. Riverside Poly High School in Riverside County, California, announced its forfeit against Jurupa Valley High School in a statement. “Riverside Poly High School’s girls volleyball team will not take the court for tonight’s scheduled game against Jurupa Valley High School,” the statement said. “This match will be recorded as a forfeit in non-league standings. We understand this is disappointing for our athletes, families and supporters, and we appreciate the community’s understanding. We remain committed to...

Apparently, there's an exhibit at the Smithsonian – inside the National Museum of American History – that asks visitors to give their opinions on transgender athletes. Not only that, but the exhibit is sponsored, in part, by sports apparel giant Nike. Jillian Michaels, one of the original "fitness influencers" and a staunch defender of women's sports, brought it up during a segment on CNN, asking why the exhibit exists and why it is promoting a false claim. "[The exhibit]… talks about how it's complex to do gender testing in sports. It's not complex. It's basic science," Michaels said. "Is it...