The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in a pair of cases that ask whether state governments may prohibit transgender girls and women from playing on girls' and women's school sports teams. As I sat down to review what occurred during the course of those arguments, I was particularly interested to hear what Justice Neil Gorsuch would have to say.
Why the special interest in Gorsuch? It was because of his 2020 majority opinion in Bostock v. Clayton County, a case that asked whether firing an employee for being gay or transgender violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which made it illegal for an employer to discriminate against a job applicant or employee "because of…sex."
