US Supreme Court upholds transgender sports ban
Key takeaways
- The court decided 9-0 that the state laws do not violate the Title IX civil rights statute.
- The ruling upholds laws in Idaho and West Virginia that bar transgender women and girls from playing on female sports teams.
- The justices overturned decisions by lower courts siding with transgender students who challenged the bans in the two states as violating the US Constitution and a federal anti-discrimination law.
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The court decided 9-0 that the state laws do not violate the Title IX civil rights statute.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Supporters of the ban hold placards as they celebrate the US Supreme Court's final rulings of its nine-month term, in Washington, DC, the US, on June 30 [Cheney Orr/Reuters]By Al Jazeera Staff, AP and Reuters Published On 30 Jun 202630 Jun 2026The US Supreme Court has upheld state laws that bar transgender women and girls from playing on sports teams that do not align with the sex they were assigned at birth.
The ruling upholds laws in Idaho and West Virginia that bar transgender women and girls from playing on female sports teams. The Idaho and West Virginia laws designate sports teams at public schools, including universities, according to “biological sex” and bar “students of the male sex” from female teams.