On Thursday (July 3), the US Supreme Court agreed to hear calls for state laws prohibiting transgender athletes from girls’ and female sports.
The High Court stated that it would adopt an appeal concerning the laws adopted in Idaho and West Virginia, which prohibit athletes who were assigned to male male teams on female teams in public schools and universities at birth. Cases will be heard during the period starting in October, expecting the next year the decision.
The court’s decision to discuss cases comes in the middle of a wave of legislation across the country and intensifies the political debate on this issue.
The Idaho’s Law of 2020, called Justice in the Women’s Sport Act, was blocked by lower courts after court proceedings by the athlete of the University of Transgender, who claimed that the prohibition had violated constitutional rights to the same protection. Similarly, the law of West Virginia from 2021 was hit after a high school student questioned its exclusion from the girls’ team, and the Court of Appeal ruled that it had violated the head of IX, a federal law that noted discrimination against sex.
Increasing restrictions at state level
In recent years it has adopted similar limitations of more than two dozen Republican countries. Supporters claim that prohibitions are needed to protect justice in female sports. Critics say they are discriminatory and deny equal opportunities for Transgender youth.
Joshua Block, head of the Civil Freedom Union, who represents the call, said the laws focus on already vulnerable children.
“We believe that lower courts had the right to block these discriminatory laws and we will continue to prevent the freedom of all children to play,” Block said.
“Like any other educational program, school athletic programs should be accessible to all regardless of their gender or transgender status.”
Trump’s powerful command and wider context
The movement of the court is governed by a number of recent legal and political measures relating to Transgender rights. Last month, the Supreme Court confirmed the Tennessee law, which prohibits medical care for minors.
The Supreme Court decision comes in the middle of President Donald Trump’s wider efforts to limit Transgender’s rights.
President Donald Trump, who made this problem with the highlight of his campaign, signed a executive order forbidding Transgender’s athletes from girls’ and female sports in schools that receive federal financing.
“From now on, there will be only women on women’s sports,” Trump said. “War with female sports ended with this executive order.”
The order also allows federal agencies to reduce the financing of schools that violate policy.
Since then, the Ministry of Education has forced an order by investigating schools, including the University of Pennsylvania, which recently agreed to disable Transgender athletes from women’s teams in the settlement of the IX, related to Lia Thomas.
The Court of Justice recently confirmed Tennessee’s ban on the gender -confirming care of the minor transgender and supported Trump’s move to the Bar Transgender units from military service.
The Supreme Court will listen to the arguments during the next term from October. Any decision could set a nationwide precedent of whether schools must allow transgender girls to participate in female sports under the Constitution and head IX.
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