"Idaho and West Virginia have blanket bans against trans girls from playing on girls' teams, even if they took puberty blockers and have testosterone levels in line with those of girls assigned female at birth. Both states claim the laws don't discriminate on the basis of sex or gender identity,"
"Several conservative justices claimed they were worried that, if they ruled for the challengers, boys who aren't talented enough make the boys' teams would just try out for girls' teams instead. One justice, who moonlights as a girls' basketball coach, whined about being asked to set a national standard rather than just leaving this whole thing to the states to decide-as if it's acceptable to have different human rights based on your ZIP code."
"Lindsay Hecox is a college student challenging an Idaho law passed in 2020 that bans transgender women like her from playing on women's teams. Her case is known as Little v. Hecox. In 2023, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said the ban was unconstitutional, and the state appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court. Hecox actually tried to drop her challenge in September 2025 after her father died and said she no longer intended to pursue college athletics."
The Supreme Court considered two cases in which transgender girls challenged statewide bans preventing them from joining girls' public-school teams from elementary through college. Idaho and West Virginia bar trans girls from girls' teams even after puberty blockers and testosterone levels comparable to cisgender girls; states defend the laws as preserving women's equal opportunities and assert they do not discriminate based on sex or gender identity. During oral arguments, several conservative justices raised hypotheticals about cisgender boys trying out for girls' teams and some urged deference to state decision-making. One challenger, Lindsay Hecox, had a 9th Circuit victory that the states appealed.
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