The Supreme Court’s conservative majority sounded ready to uphold bans on transgender girls competing in girls’ sports, during oral arguments Tuesday in challenges to state laws in Idaho and West Virginia.
Across more than three hours of arguments in the two cases, the justices probed arguments from the states, the Trump administration and athletes over the legality and constitutionality of those laws and similar statutes in more than two dozen states nationwide.
The lawyers for two athletes challenging the laws argued they violate Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, which states no one should be discriminated against in education programs “on the basis of sex,” as well as the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
