Supreme Court Lets Transgender Girl Stay on School Track Team

April 6, 2023, 6:50 PM UTC

The US Supreme Court let a 12-year-old transgender girl continue competing on her middle school track team, acting for the first time on a wave of new state restrictions on athletic participation.

The justices, with no explanation and over two dissents, rejected West Virginia’s request to remove Becky Pepper-Jackson from the team during a legal fight over a two-year-old state law. The West Virginia measure allows participation on girls’ squads only for people classified at birth as female based on their reproductive biology and genetics.

The fight over a single student took on outsize importance, with 21 states and a ...

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