"On paper, the question is narrow: can states bar trans girls from girls' teams and still claim to comply with the Constitution and with Title IX? In reality, the Court will be asked to decide something much larger. Are trans people, particularly trans women and girls, legitimate participants in public life, allowed to be seen as who they are in spaces that everyone else takes for granted, like school sports?"
"In 2022, the state legislature passed a ban on trans girls in K-12 sports, complete with speeches about "fairness" and "protecting girls." When that was not enough, lawmakers came back with a bill to expand the ban to college sports-even as the president of the NCAA told Congress that the number of trans women competing in collegiate women's sports nationwide is in the single digits."
"more than two dozen states have passed laws excluding trans athletes from teams that match their gender. Many of those laws invite invasive "sex verification" procedures that put every girl under suspicion if her body does not fit rigid ideas of what a girl should look like. This is not a grassroots response to a flood of trans athletes. It is a top-down campaign that has now reached the highest court in the country."
The Supreme Court will hear whether states can bar transgender girls from girls' sports while complying with the Constitution and Title IX. The legal question has broader implications about whether transgender people, especially trans women and girls, can participate openly in public life. More than two dozen states have enacted laws excluding trans athletes from teams matching their gender and some laws require invasive "sex verification" procedures that cast suspicion on girls whose bodies do not fit rigid expectations. Indiana passed K-12 and college bans despite negligible numbers of trans collegiate athletes. These bans arose from coordinated, top-down campaigns aimed at erasing trans visibility.
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