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The Supreme Court has announced it will hear two cases that surround transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s sports teams. The decision will most likely be, according to the New York Times, around late June or July 2026. These cases come from transgender youth in Idaho and West Virginia, where bans on transgender participation in youth sports have taken root.
The rise of these issues stems from the Trump Administration, which continues to challenge the transgender community in numerous ways, including taking them out of the LGBTQ community and leaving it at LGB. The administration has also been clear when it comes to gender, saying there are only two.
Trump has also banned trans people from serving in the military.
Both cases include two athletes: Becky Pepper-Jackson (West Virginia) will be in the West Virginia v. B.P.J. case. Lindsay Hecox (Idaho) will be in the Little v. Hecox case. Both sued to challenge the state laws for not letting them play in women’s sports. They also argued that the laws preventing them from playing sports violated the Constitution’s equal protection clause.
Courts had previously blocked the laws from going in place for the students, but then the states asked the Supreme Court for their opinion.
This is huge news to the country because, although there has been a huge debate over transgender participation in sports, the Supreme Court has yet to give an opinion. And although it’s unclear where the Supreme Court will decide, they recently upheld a Tennessee law banning some treatments for transgender youth. More will come in October, however, when the court starts meeting to address the cases.
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