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Behind the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Transgender Athletes

In January, during oral arguments in the Supreme Court, in a case about whether states may exclude transgender female athletes from girls’ sports teams, the lawyer for Becky Pepper-Jackson, a transgender teen-ager, made a point of emphasizing her athletic mediocrity. Competing on her school’s track-and-field and cross-country teams, “where nobody was cut,” her lawyer said, “she came in near the back.” Becky (known in the case as B.P.J.) hadn’t gone through male puberty, and didn’t have male testosterone levels, because she had taken puberty blockers and was on female hormones. The other transg…

The New Yorker

Melania Trump Says She 'Fully Supports the LGBTQIA+ Community' amid Supreme Court Banning Trans Athletes from Women's Sports

Melania Trump weighed in on the Supreme Court's decision to ban trans girls from women's sports

Yahoo

Rulings on women’s sports cap a year of setbacks for transgender advocates

The Supreme Court’s ruling Tuesday upholding state bans on transgender athletes in women’s sports is prompting questions about whether trans rights litigators have made strategic missteps, saddling the ascendant legal movement with sweeping precedents that could hurt their cause for years to come.

The Washington Post