Gallup survey<\/a> last spring, about two-thirds of adults, including four in 10 Democrats, said they believed that transgender athletes should be limited to teams that match their sex assigned at birth.<\/p>\nA few prominent Democrats, including Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, have suggested that they see transgender athlete participation as unfair. A trans high school senior in California shared two state titles in May, in the high jump and triple jump, with the girl who finished in the place behind her, under a policy created last year.<\/p>\n
The 27 states that have enacted bans on trans athletes all have Republican-led legislatures. In light of the ruling on Tuesday, transgender advocates said it was important to shore up policies that support trans athlete participation in Democratic-led states.<\/p>\n
Beyond excluding transgender athletes, bans based on biological sex invite scrutiny of students who do not conform to feminine stereotypes, advocates have said. \u201cWe must all call on states to adopt inclusive policies so that no one gets left behind,\u201d Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, an L.G.B.T.Q. advocacy group, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The legal battles in state and federal courts will most likely continue to focus on Title IX, the federal law that bans discrimination in public education based on sex.<\/p>\n
In its lawsuit against California, the Trump administration has argued that if a school chooses to separate teams by sex, the teams designated for women and girls cannot include individuals who have a female gender identity, but whose biological sex is male.<\/p>\n
In upholding the Idaho and West Virginia laws banning transgender athlete participation, the Supreme Court endorsed a definition of sex that seemed to support that view.<\/p>\n
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, writing for the conservative majority, said that the word \u201csex\u201d in Title IX \u201ccannot plausibly be interpreted to refer to anything other than biological sex.\u201d<\/p>\n
But the opinion also steered clear of determining whether the law explicitly prevents transgender students from participating in sports that align with their gender identity.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a policy question that different states can come to different conclusions on,\u201d said Josh Block, an attorney with the A.C.L.U. who represented Becky Pepper-Jackson, the athlete challenging West Virginia\u2019s ban.<\/p>\n
Justice Kavanaugh, a longtime youth basketball coach, also wrote that the desire of transgender athletes to participate \u201cwarrants respect,\u201d and that no student athlete, \u201cwhether a biological female or transgender, deserves to be ostracized or vilified.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ann E. Marimow and Juliet Macur contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court\u2019s ruling that states can block trans women and girls from competing in female events allows…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[108553,92648,17075,81968,92647,9,11,10,49,51,50,108552,108554,9889],"class_list":["post-283058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-becky","tag-brett-m","tag-decisions-and-verdicts","tag-interscholastic-athletics","tag-kavanaugh","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-pepper-jackson","tag-title-ix-gender-discrimination-legislation","tag-transgender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}