West Virginia Transgender Athlete Ban Put on Hold During Appeal

A West Virginia middle school student won a freeze on the enforcement of a state law barring transgender female athletes from participating on girls’ school sports teams as a federal appeals court considers the case.

A divided panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Wednesday stayed a Jan. 5 order of the US District Court for the District of West Virginia dissolving its preliminary injunction after finding the law constitutional.

No federal appeals court has yet ruled on the constitutionality of a state’s transgender athlete ban. The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, however, ...