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EXCLUSIVE: The general prosecutors of 27 states and the territory of Guam of the United States have signed Amicus Briefs to support defense in an upcoming case of the Supreme Court to protect women’s sports from the inclusion of transgender athletes.
The Supreme Court agreed in July to review state prohibitions in transgender athletes that participate in public school sports. The two cases you will hear, Little vs. Haox in Idaho and BPJ vs. West Virginia, focused on state laws that prevent biological men from competing in girls and women’s sports teams.
The plaintiffs in the cases, the transgender athletes, sought to avoid those laws while the defendants, state authorities in Virginia Occidental and Idaho, seek to maintain the laws.
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Now, the AG of Arkansas, Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisian Tixasee, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Pennsynsy Virginia and Wyoming, and Guam territory of the United States are launching their support behind the defendants, as seen in copies of the reports obtained by Pak Gazette Digital.
The AG of Idaho and West Virginia only signed the reports for the case that is not based on their state, since they are already accused in the case within their state.
“In the center of these cases there is a fundamental question: are the States defending the laws that preserve the equity and opportunity for female athletes? The answer must be yes. Throughout the country, girls are already asked once again to exceed the structural disadvantages that title IX was designed to eliminate. This is not about the presumption of the presence of the integrity of the athletic women the athletics “, which says the exception of the exception.
“We must protect these opportunities because law, science and public will are on our side. We believe that the Court will also be.”
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West Virginia, who promulgated the “Save of Women’s Sports Law” in 2021, is appealing a decision of the lower court that allowed the transgender athlete Becky Pepper-Jackson to compete in school A naughty field and track equipment. Last year, Pepper-Jackson qualified for the state meeting of the West Virginia High School high school, ending third in the launch of the album and the eighth in the bullet launch in the division of the AAA class.
The Fourth Court of Appeals of the United States Circuit failed in favor of Pepper-Jackson, who has been taking medications that block puberty, in an April 2024 ruling based on the equal protection clause of the Constitution.
Idaho, who became the first state in the country to prohibit transgender athletes from girls and women in 2020, asked the Supreme Court to listen to his case involving Lindsay Hecox, a trans athlete who wants to compete in BOISE STATE’S female athletics team.
A 9th panel of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed a court order that blocked the Idaho state law in 2023.
Hecox asked the Supreme Court earlier this month to withdraw his challenge against the law of the State of Idaho.
“While practicing female sports is important for Mrs. Hecox, its highest priority is to graduate from the university and live a healthy and safe life,” a Presentation of hecox lawyers read. “Therefore, Mrs. Helox has decided to retire and abstain permanently of practicing any women’s sport in BSU or Idaho covered by HB 500”.
Meanwhile, Idaho’s attorney general Raul Labrador He hopes that the Supreme Court will throw a decision with a broader impact than to let a State make its own specific law on the issue. He wants a new national precedent. “I think that’s what Labrador told Pak Gazette Digital in an exclusive interview.
“I think they will have a great decision about whether men can participate in women’s sports and, more importantly, how to determine whether transgender people are protected by federal constitutions and state and federal laws.”
