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Trans youth athletes vow to keep playing after US supreme court ruling

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AB Hernandez wins the division 3 girls’ high jump at Moorpark high school in Moorpark, California, on 16 May 2026. Photograph: Kirby Lee/Getty Images

Transgender youth athletes have vowed to keep playing sports and fighting for equal access to teams after the US supreme court ruled in favor of laws banning their participation.

The court’s conservative supermajority on Tuesday upheld laws in West Virginia and Idaho prohibiting trans girls from participating in women’s teams, finding the laws were constitutional.

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