
Category: transgender athletes
West Virginia asks Supreme Court to allow enforcement of school transgender sports ban
West Virginia has asked the Supreme Court to take emergency action so the state can enforce its law banning transgender women from competing on female school sports teams, the state attorney general’s office said. A divided federal appeals court last month blocked enforcement of the law as the panel hears a challenge to it in full. A spokesman for West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey…
Court to reconsider lawsuit against policy allowing transgender athletes to compete in Connecticut
A federal appeals court docket on Monday said it will reconsider a lawsuit that questioned Connecticut’s policy allowing transgender athletes to compete there. The 2nd U.S. Circuit of Appeals announced Monday {that a} majority of the judges agreed to rehear the case, which was first brought to a panel of three judges last September by the conservative authorized group the Alliance Defending Freedom, which alleges…