West Virginia Asks High Court to Weigh in on Trans Athlete Case

West Virginia says it’s asking the US Supreme Court to lift a freeze on the state’s law barring transgender athletes from participating on girls’ school sports teams while a federal appeals court considers the case.

The state is challenging a Feb. 22 ruling by a divided panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit staying a Jan. 5 district court decision to dissolve an injunction after finding the law constitutional.

No federal appeals court has ruled on the constitutionality of a state’s transgender athlete ban. The Eleventh Circuit, however, ruled Dec. 30 in a divided opinion that ...