BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court rejects attempt by West Virginia to prevent a 12-year-old transgender student from participating in girls’ sports.
on Thursday rejected an attempt by West Virginia to prevent a transgender student from participating in girls’ sports.
In barring transgender girls from participating in girls’ sports at the middle school, high school and college levels, the law says gender is “based solely on the individual’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.” As such, it says, a female is a person “whose biological sex determined at birth as female.”
During the litigation, Pepper-Jackson has participated on her school's cross country and track teams, where she has been welcomed by teammates and coaches, her lawyers said. She is undergoing puberty-delaying treatment and hormone therapy.A federal judge initially ruled in Pepper-Jackson's favor but concluded in January that the law was most likely legal and allowed it to be enforced against her. Pepper-Jackson appealed, and last month the Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S.
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