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NPR reports:
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Thursday to intervene in an ongoing case involving West Virginia’s law banning transgender girls from participating in girls sports teams at school. Conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented.
The court’s action came on its emergency docket, sometimes dubbed the shadow docket because decisions are made without full briefing or argument, and decided with little or no explanation.
Some 19 states have enacted laws like West Virginia’s in the last three years, according to the ACLU. But no appeals court has yet ruled on the question. In this case, West Virginia’s law was challenged by a 12-year-old middle school transgender girl named Becky Pepper-Jackson, who has lived as a girl since fourth grade, according to court papers.
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BREAKING: Supreme Court denies West Virginia’s request to immediately reinstate law that would ban transgender student-athletes from participating in sports teams consistent with their gender identity. https://t.co/enCtmTWBXH
— ABC News (@ABC) April 6, 2023
BREAKING: In a 7-2 ruling, the Supreme Court has rejected an effort by West Virginia to block a 12-year-old transgender girl from continuing to participate in school sports with her peers.
— ACLU (@ACLU) April 6, 2023
Breaking news: Transgender student can remain on track team as Supreme Court refuses to immediately reinstate West Virginia law that bars it https://t.co/wj7t7WlqkO
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 6, 2023
BREAKING – U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday refuses to let West Virginia enforce a state law banning transgender athletes from female sports teams at public schools. Two conservative justices, Alito and Thomas, publicly dissent from the decision. pic.twitter.com/Cdc5jSdDYc
— Andrew Chung (@andrew_chung_) April 6, 2023