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Lex McMenamin in Washington DC

‘They’re here to antagonize us’: trans advocates say hostility at rallies is up as supreme court hears key case

Trans rights activists outside the supreme court on 13 January 2025.
Trans rights activists outside the supreme court on 13 January 2025. Photograph: Alexa Wilkinson/Gender Liberation Movement

As the US supreme court heard arguments on Tuesday for a case that could determine whether transgender children can participate in school sports – and potentially impact LGBTQ+ civil rights protections more broadly – competing groups of activists rallied in Washington DC.

On one side was a multiracial mix of hundreds of people rallying for trans rights and in support of Becky Pepper-Jackson, a track and field athlete from West Virginia and the plaintiff in the West Virginia v BPJ case before the supreme court.

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