Supreme Court could take first transgender sports case after appeal from West Virginia soccer player

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Lainey, a West Virginia State University football player and her lawyer with Alliance Defending Freedom are scheduled to request the top court to lift the injunction against state’s Save Women’s Sports Act. The act was designed to prohibit biological male students who identify to be women from taking part in girls’ school sports teams.

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“We are now asking SCOTUS to vacate that unreasonable and incorrect injunction,” Patrick Morrisey was the West Virginia Attorney General during Thursday’s press conference.

Although the law was adopted in 2021, it was challenged by litigation by American Civil Liberties Union. This represented Becky Pepper Jackson, a middle-school student of transgender who was prevented from running with the cross-country girls team. ACLU claims the law is in violation of Title IX (federal statute that prohibits discrimination based on sex) and 14th Amendment.

The West Virginia law was deemed constitutional by a district court in August. Title IX protects against sexual discrimination.

ACLU appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit. They requested an injunction. This means that the law is currently halted as the case continues.

“We know that we should win on the merits. We know that the original district court judge put in place an injunction that ultimately changed his mind and agreed with us that the law is constitutional,” Morrisey stated, and ADF added that the Supreme Court is why Morrisey believes it will. “ultimately lift the injunction.”

Armistead was willing to join the lawsuit on her behalf and for other female athletes. She claimed that Pepper-Jackson’s ACLU defense threatened her right to compete fairly.

“I never dreamed this would be an issue in West Virginia,” Armistead claimed in a statement. “Whenever I heard about the Connecticut lawsuit or just the girls losing out, I was really devastated for them because I know how much work all these athletes have put into their individual s