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Back<\/span><\/p>\n transcript<\/p>\n \u201cIt is undisputed that states may separate their sports teams based on sex in light of the real biological differences between males and females. States may equally apply that valid sex-based rule to biological males who self-identify as female. Denying a special accommodation to trans-identifying individuals does not discriminate on the basis of sex or gender identity or deny equal protection.\u201d \u201cWest Virginia argues that to protect these opportunities for cisgender girls, it has to deny them to B.P.J. But Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause protect everyone. And if the evidence shows there are no relevant physiological differences between B.P.J. and other girls, then there\u2019s no basis to exclude her.\u201d \u201cGiven that half the states are allowing it, allowing transgender girls and women to participate, about half are not, why would we at this point, just the role of this court, jump in and try to constitutionalize a rule for the whole country while there\u2019s still, as you say, uncertainty and debate, while there\u2019s still strong interest in other side?\u201d \u201cThis court has held in cases like V.M.I. that in general, classification based on sex is impermissible because in general, men and women are simply situated. Where that\u2019s not true is for the sorts of real, enduring, obvious differences that this court talked about in cases like V.M.I., the differences in reproductive biology. I don\u2019t think the pseudoscience you\u2019re suggesting has been baked.\u201d \u201cWell, it\u2019s not pseudo. It\u2019s good science.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s not pseudoscience to say boys\u2019 brain development happens at a different stage than girls does.\u201d \u201cWell, with all respect, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any science anywhere that is suggested that these intellectual differences are traceable to biological differences.\u201d \u201cCan we avoid your whole similarly situated argument that you run because I don\u2019t really like it that much either? And I\u2019m not trying to prejudice anyone making that argument later. But I mean, I think it opens a huge can of worms that maybe we don\u2019t need to get into here.\u201d<\/p>\n The Supreme Court heard two cases from West Virginia and Idaho on Tuesday. Both concerned barring the participation of transgender athletes in girls\u2019 and women\u2019s sports teams.<\/span><\/p>\n By Meg Felling<\/p>\n January 13, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" new video loaded: Supreme Court May Allow States to Bar Transgender Athletes transcript Back transcript Supreme Court May Allow States to Bar Transgender Athletes The Supreme Court heard two cases from West Virginia and Idaho on Tuesday. Both concerned barring the participation of transgender athletes in girls\u2019 and women\u2019s sports teams. \u201cIt is undisputed that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[2482,1932,160,1561,159,570],"class_list":{"0":"post-41535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-athletes","9":"tag-bar","10":"tag-court","11":"tag-states","12":"tag-supreme","13":"tag-transgender"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Supreme Court May Allow States to Bar Transgender Athletes<\/h2>\n
The Supreme Court heard two cases from West Virginia and Idaho on Tuesday. Both concerned barring the participation of transgender athletes in girls\u2019 and women\u2019s sports teams.<\/h4>\n