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The governor of West Virginia, Patrick Morrisey, promised to maintain the fight to protect the sports of women and girls as a transgender athlete competing against girls in the state championship.
Becky Pepper-Jackson, a 13-year-old first-year student in Bridgeport Senior High School who has been the subject of a case of the Supreme Court on his participation in girls’ sports, ended in third place in the disc and eighth event in the bullet launch competition.
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The governor of West Virginia, Patrick Morrisey, speaks during a press conference at the Department of Health and Human Services on April 22, 2025 in Washington, DC (Andrew Harnik/Getty images)
When Pepper-Jackson participated in the meeting, Morrisey urged officials to keep separate scores.
“A boy is currently competing in girls sports at the State Secondary School Meeting in Virginia Occidental,” Morrisey wrote on Facebook. “It is wrong and unfair. Again I am urging officials to keep separate scores so that true winners can be granted once we win in court.
“We will not stop fighting to protect girls from girls.”
A Federal Appeals Court blocked a Law of Western Virginia that would have prevented biological men from competing against girls and women in sports last year. The court said that the law cannot be legally applied to a trans girl from the high school that has been taking medications that block puberty and has been publicly identified as a child since the third degree.
Since then, Virginia Occidental has made an appeal before the Supreme Court with respect to the decision of the Court of Appeals.
Becky Pepper-Jackson attends the LIBDA LIBDDA Liberds Awards on June 8, 2023 in New York City. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Legal Lambda)
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In 2023, the judges of the Supreme Court refused to disturb an order of the Court of Appeals that made it possible for the girl to continue playing on the track of her intermediate school and the teams through the country.
As the athletics of the West Virginia high school moved to the postseason, Morrisey asked the coaches to allow athletes to “take a position” against transgender participate in the sports of the girls.
“I think what is happening at this time in West Virginia, with boys practicing sports against girls, to be abhorred and contrary to the law,” he wrote on Facebook. “While we wait for the Supreme Court to issue its ruling in this case, I am asking all the trainers involved to let these brave athletes take a position in what is correct without unfair punishment.
Patrick Morrisey speaks in a campaign event on October 22, 2018 in Inwood, West Virginia. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
“As we all work to eliminate the judicial order erroneously determined in the coming months, I ask that all the tournament officials maintain a complete set of results so that the true winners of each event can be recognized when the Supreme Court governs in our favor.”
