The United State Supreme Court today announced that it will review Idaho's and West Virginia's bans on transgender athletes joining female sports teams.
The announcement comes just one week after the court's conservative majority upheld Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors.
The United State Supreme Court today announced that it will review Idaho's and West Virginia's bans on transgender athletes joining female sports teams.Â
The announcement comes just one week after the court's conservative majority upheld Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors.
The justices will likely hear arguments on the case this fall and a judgement will be delivered next year.Â
Just his week, the University of Pennsylvania agreed to prohibit transgender athletes from competing in women's sports and strip the record of former swimmer Lia Thomas as part of an agreement with the U.S. Department of Education.
According to the USA Today, two-thirds of adults surveyed in February by Pew Research Center favor requiring trans athletes to compete on teams that match their sex assigned at birth.
State officials from Idaho and West Virgina was the SCOTUS to address a “growing trend of males identifying as females competing against – and beating – females in women’s sports across the country.”
Lower courts blocked Idaho and West Virginia from enforcing their bans against a Boise State University student and a middle-school student in West Virginia.
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