The U.S. Supreme Court refused West Virginia’s bid to bar a 12-year-old transgender girl from competing on the girls’ track team at her middle school.
(Associated Press)
In its first decision involving transgender students and sports, the Supreme Court on Thursday refused West Virginia’s bid to bar a 12-year-old transgender girl from competing on the girls’ track team at her middle school.
With two conservatives in dissent, the court turned down an emergency appeal from the state’s lawyers, who were defending a 2021 law that would classify students based on how their sex was labeled at birth, rather than how they identify.
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